we've really changed the tone of the discussion in the lausd. we've greatly increased the number of trainings that are going on. now we're beginning to train the trainers which we think is very important and will leverage our work even further. i'm going to end with just a little bit of a pep talk because this is a huge, huge challenge to solve these problems. we didn't -- in many ways, we're experts in certain areas, but we certainly weren't expert in other areas, but we felt that something needed to be done, and we couldn't wait for somebody else to take leadership in that area. so i would just encourage people , in our small group yesterday when we were talking about improving communication among groups, um, we came up with two words, convene and galvanize. and i guess the advice i would give is don't wait for somebody else to do that. convene people, and galvanize the efforts, leverage what you're doing already into something greater. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, alan. and now we'll turn it other to nicole cardarelli from afsp. >> hi,

in addition from lausd, we have health education programs and the board of, the school board.lishes work groups around each of those areas that i've just talked about. um, and it's very practical. this is, work needs to be done in these areas, and we assigned people coming to the steering committee to these various areas. the one area it seems perhaps wasn't completely practice-oriented was transgender support, and that's primarily because we saw as in society at large the discrimination, the violence, the mental health and health issues that the transgender community faces are so much more severe than anybody else. and we really wanted to put special attention on that. we began, um, partially with bully prevention because the lausd has done some really great work on that, and they've created a model that is quite good. and some of you may know dr. judy chasten who has really been a pioneer in putting together some of these workshops and trainings. so the work we do supports work that is already existing, we've always made that clear that we're not there to tell them what to d