Social workers in Chesapeake Public Schools adapt with pandemic and last updated 2021-04-02 09:14:18-04 CHESAPEAKE, Va. - From helping kids access internet to finding stable housing for families, Jane Dowdell has done it all. "We address things like homelessness, behavioral needs [and] mental health needs," Dowdell, a school social worker with Chesapeake Public Schools, said. Dowdell said the pandemic has been challenging. "I think initially for us when we went out on the full school closure, we had a lot of kids just seemingly disappear, because virtually I think we didn't realize that a lot of people don't have access to internet," she said. "We were just trying to figure out, 'Where have these kids gone? How can we reach them?'"