 The very birth of the let's celebrate, let's educate, preparing for the future party came from a community partner that gave me an idea to educate seniors on Medicaid and Medicare and she said birthday party and I said oh birthday party and I just took it and I ran with it because that's what I like to do. When I talk to seniors sometimes they are, especially after they retire, they're at home, they have nowhere to go, their family is gone and I hear these stories at the parties and this was an opportunity for them to get out and to see what else extension has that they can connect with. We just want to love you, celebrate. I graduated from Auburn and was selling ADT security systems and I was looking for a job and I went to this couple's house and they said oh well there's a job hosting over at the courthouse and I went and checked it out, got an interview, was so excited and was hired. Really the only thing that I knew about extension at that time is a 4-H because I was in 4-H but when I got in and started looking at actually what I was going to be doing, serving the community, teaching adults, it just really took me to the next level of excitement for extension and I have loved it. Now I'm 25 years in and have just really enjoyed all of the time that I've spent educating and inspiring others throughout my career. Extension is an outreach tool that is just ideal for taking the needs of the community and mainstreaming them and resourcing those needs. The senior citizen birthday party program, it was an opportunity for us to, one, celebrate our seniors because a lot of times when you get to a certain age you don't have a birthday party and then also the couple that a lot of them don't understand that there are resources out there available for them that they could qualify for. So I thought this was a great opportunity to teach them on all of the resources like the Medicaid, the Medicare, all of the other health care benefits, the free attorney services. Over the year that we've had these birthday party programs we have enhanced them to see what other resources can those seniors benefit from. So now with that we have the Tuskegee University College of Nursing and Arbor University College of Nursing working together to help with these events. The seniors, some of them, it might have been a month, a couple of months since they had their blood pressure checked or their glucose, so this was an opportunity for the seniors to actually see what their current readings are. So if there was something that needed to be addressed they could have found it out here at the birthday party. What I have seen to happen with these parties and other programs that we have is when they come they tend to see how much they get out of it so they leave asking when is your next one. What else do you all do? My heart is to serve people, to serve with no strings attached. I don't want anything from you. I want something for you. So this birthday party is a social event too. It's an opportunity for them to get out of the house and it's educational. So it's a two for one. Who wouldn't want that? It's a win.