Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health

Just wanted to go ahead and mention that October 8th is Pride Night.

You get a Pride t-shirt courtesy of the L.A. County Department of Mental Health.

The 21st of October is Opening Night versus the Golden State Warriors.

So again, October 8th is Pride Night.

One of the main things that we start to notice is just general isolation.

Dr. Nicholas Bliss is a clinical psychologist and supervisor at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, where he specializes in youth school threat assessments, psychiatric crisis intervention, and disaster mental health response for public safety.

The individual may be kind of not as willing to open up to their friends or family.

They might be keeping to themselves more even in class.

And Alejandro, what are you excited about this play? Like, what's most exciting for you?

What's most exciting is the fact that we started this project as a grant proposal that was presented by the LA County Department of Mental Health, in particular with the Latino Underserved Community Council.

So when we were working on that together, it was a really cool process of understanding what each, what each of us offered in terms of our skill sets, um, behind the scenes in terms of producing.

And, uh, we were able to like kind of pick up the slack in terms of where each of us fell a little short.