In a different time, students at the College of Saint Rose would be on campus and learning from inside a classroom, instead of virtually like they are now.

"This has been a learning curve but I think that this opportunity will definitely be able to give us strength in the future when we have to encounter situations like this," said graduate student Catrina Giorgio.

But Giorgio isn't waiting for the future to take action. She's created a video with other social work graduate students. The video includes multiple students who share words to describe the work essential workers do, words like "hero" and "resilient."

The hope is it will show essential workers how grateful people are for them.

"We’re either trained or hardwired, I don’t know, but I feel like social workers as a community are really passionate about how can we do more, how can we help," said student Lori Walker.

Student Amber Lavare adds, "This time really has been giving us the opportunity to be more creative in showing our support for people."

The video is produced completely by students, and helps them put what they’re learning virtually to work in real-time.

"Incredibly proud. Incredibly proud. I think they’re probably sick of me saying that to them, but I really mean it," said Julie Piepenbring, associate professor of social work. "They have been incredibly creative. They have been incredibly resilient themselves. A lot of our students are actually essential workers, too."