Salvador Garcia, FRIENDS Clinician, Visiting Nurse Service of New York By Salvador Garcia, FRIENDS Clinician, Visiting Nurse Service of New York HEALTH - Over the last two years, families have been under a tremendous amount of stress. At the FRIENDS clinic, an Article 31 clinic located in the Bronx, we continue to assist overwhelmed and exhausted clients that are having trouble managing stress after a prolonged experience with the COVID pandemic.  At the FRIENDS clinic, our licensed social workers, psychiatrists, and psychiatric nurse practitioners provide medication management and ongoing therapeutic services for children, youth, and their family. Whether it’s parents with limited resources, students struggling with heightened anxiety and/or depression, or older adults fearful of leaving their home, these concerns do not follow the stream of spikes and dips in the overall COVID cases in the Bronx. Instead, these are persistent emotions that ultimately manifest themselves in ways