 The Calciano Symposium has been around for 16 years now and we've been started out addressing predominantly issues that affected young people in the area of why suicide, why there was suicide. I lost a son in 1995 to suicide and as a result of that and helping the family get through all of the trauma we decided to start this event. And it first started out targeting general areas of drug addiction, depression, and more general topics. And then we moved over the years into more specific areas such as cutting and specific methadone, drug addictions. And then we moved forward into more specific arenas as more and more so we are trying to keep up with what is going on currently in Santa Cruz County and what issues need to be addressed. Right. I think that youth of our community are affected by a broad range of topics and as such the committee who designs the symposium each year picks a topic and if an LGBT issue comes to us it will be part of the topic for the year because indeed it's part of the human experience that people are people and they have certain problems. And so to kind of answer the question most directly it's favorably accepted by all of our community partners. In fact we're here right now talking to you because of our focus on bullying this year with a large segment of component on LGBTQI and how they can often become the victims of bullying. I think that it's come up several times, most specifically two years ago when we did a full day professional conference on suicide the Family Acceptance Project out of San Francisco. Their founder came and spoke to us for about an hour and a half and it was quite enlightening because depression and suicide relative to not being accepted by your family if you're LGBT etc. is a significant factor in helping to get families to accept the people, again our people and we are born the way we are born will help decrease evidence or incidents of suicide and depression and other types of behavior, drug abuse and addiction. This current year as you know we did bullying and there was a very very large research based component of the symposium showing how indeed those people of LGBT backgrounds are the victims of bullying more often than the general non-LGBT population. So yeah. Yeah and also just sort of tailing into that is that in the last couple years we've also had student panels or this year we had a student panel and that was very powerful and many students actually attend they can come on scholarships and many of those students are part of the LGBT community and this was very profound for them and they could open up in a very safe environment. Two years ago also we had a question and answer period after our main speaker and she and it was very profound there were students that came up and asked questions that just left the whole place that day quite poignant. Yeah I'll just drop in one more thing Rod Indra has been involved with us several different symposiums he we were going to do a symposium we did a symposium actually four years ago on bullying and gang violence and Ron Indra was going to be or was one of the speakers but the tsunami came and the symposium got cancelled but we still carried out the symposium and it's still available to watch on community television although there was no audience there but our connection with Ron Indra and Alicia Nahara has had a large influence on making sure or helping us to integrate issues of LGBTQI. Did I get that right? Into our into our presentations. Well this symposium could create a much safer environment for LGBT students by what we are planning to do is expanding on our student panels and we're sort of on a campaign right now to have a scholarship fund that will increase right now we only have the capacity for 25 students and next year we're hoping to grow in that arena because we have a waiting list for them to attend. Increasing our capacity is gonna really help but also put out that this year's symposium on bullying with the very focused topics around LGBT issues was filmed again by community television and an excellent job of editing and putting into four segments and parts and is available on YouTube so right now I can tell you that besides the people who are at the symposium 250 or 350 different people have already stopped into YouTube and seen the components of the what they chose to pick out of the symposium and so reaching out to the community through multimedia seems to be a good way to get it out past the audience of three to four hundred people that we currently serve. My favorite movie has always been Sophie's Choice when Meryl Streep played Sophie and mainly because she was faced with just daunting decisions and I feel that for many of our youth that they are constantly faced with decisions on how to be in their family how to be outside in the community in the classroom and I can see but that's just as serious for them as it was for her. For Scump off top of my head simply because it covers a period of time that's important to me in my life and takes us from the Elvis Presley through a person dying of AIDS and all the significant events in our society along that way with some humor and then some emotion and really really well done by Tom Hanks. My favorite color would be white as a white is a combination of all the colors and it's very reflective so I feel that that is part of me and my wanting to put out positive energy into the community. I'm turning a negative loss in my family and for my other children into a very positive energy for Santa Cruz County. You know it takes every color to make a rainbow it takes every working part to make a working brain but my favorite color is cobalt blue and why I don't know it just always been my favorite color.