mehealth continues to make headlines as simone biles pulse out of the olympics to focus on her mentallth. there are concerns that more mental health professionals-to- should handle certain 911 calls. in order to do that we need more people trained to help. joining us is dr. dan gizzo, the director of kaiser permanente and a kaiser permanente employee and also a student at the academy. doctor, thank you for joining us. what are people learning? >> we're excited about the new practice kaiser permanente is working to increase the number of mental health professionals in california. so we started an innovative new program that gives employees who are passionate about mental health the opportunity to go back to school and pursue mental health degree studies such as masters degree in therapy, social work, even doctor in clinical psychology. this is a project we're doing to address the projected workforce shortages. >> yes. i think this is a really big deal. as i mentioned during the commercial break, mental health is something we focus on at abc7. we've been through it with the pandemic. i