 Everyone needs to feel a sense of belonging. Belonging creates meaning in our lives. Feeling included shapes our identity, bolsters our self-esteem, and fuels our personal growth. In the fall of 2010, the Government of Alberta's initiative, Setting the Direction, was renamed Action on Inclusion to signal implementation of an inclusive education system. The goal is to provide all students with the most appropriate learning environments and opportunities for them to best achieve their potential. We've always viewed Julen as just an amazing gift to us and to this world. And gifts are meant to share and so we want to be able to share, hit our gift of him with other people. In terms of the school system, we started working with them a couple of years before he entered the school system and just meeting with them and telling them that we would like him to be included in the classroom, which at that time was a little bit of a foreign concept for them. They had a great specialized program for kids with special needs, but I knew that he would need just some different kind of kids, just a regular classroom because he would grow up to live in a regular world and full of all sorts of people. So I wanted him to learn right from the start to be able to adapt to that. So kindergarten was great, he did really well. The teacher saw him pick up things quickly and then it came to grade one. They hadn't had a child with his severity of special need enter an inclusion kind of program in the school, but they decided to give it a try and it went really well and they actually took out that special needs program in the school and now all the kids are being included in the school and the classrooms and it's just been a really positive experience for the students, for Julen especially, for us to be involved with all those other parents as well and I think for the teachers as well.