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Creating Elder-Friendly Communities in Indiana

Indiana Partnerships for Lifespan Communities is a statewide initiative to create elder-friendly communities in Indiana, promoting the health, well-being, and independence of older residents. This initiative involves partnerships and data-driven approaches to develop models and methods to measure and improve community elder-friendliness. The project receives support from various organizations and has already made significant progress through surveys, workshops, and community engagement.

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Creating Elder-Friendly Communities in Indiana

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  1. Planning to Make Indiana Elder-Friendly American Society on Aging, Las Vegas, NV March 16,2009

  2. Not “When is old age?”but“Where is old age?”

  3. Our work should help create good places to grow up and grow old…livable, lifespan communities

  4. Indiana Partnerships for Lifespan Communities “…a comprehensive, participatory, and data driven initiative to create good places to grow up and grow old in Indiana.”

  5. Indiana Partnerships for Lifespan Communities The first application of the AdvantAge Initiative on a statewide basis

  6. Develop a model of an “elder friendly” community • Develop a method to measure community “elder-friendliness” • Help communities interpret and use this information to create action plans to support older residents’ health, well-being, and independence as well as their social and civic engagement

  7. Indiana Partnerships for Lifespan Communities • State level partnerships and Steering Committee • Division of Aging, Indiana Family and Social Services Administration • Center on Aging and Community, Indiana University (project mgmt.) • Indiana Association of Area Agencies on Aging • Self-Advocates of Indiana, Inc. • Professional Development Workshops Statewide • Building Community Partnerships: Mike Winer • Communities for All Ages: Nancy Henkin • Fund Development for statewide survey and community engagement • 16 Indiana Area Agencies on Aging • Indiana Division of Aging (FSSA) • Daniels Fund, Denver, Colorado • Lilly Endowment , Inc. 2006-2007: Groundwork

  8. Statewide Survey • 4,500 older Hoosiers, 15 samples of 300 • Local engagement • 16 mini-grants to support local community participation, e.g.: • public awareness • convening stakeholders, steering committees • small pilots • participatory research to supplement survey data • inclusion of adults with developmental disabilities • workshops, focus groups, family supports research • Engagement with philanthropy • Materials and workshops for Indiana Grantmakers Alliance, Indiana • State Chamber of Commerce Foundation • Collaboration with statewide NNORC project: Communities for LIfe Indiana Partnerships for Lifespan Communities: 2008

  9. A partnership of the Indiana FSSA Division of Aging & the University of Indianapolis Center for Aging & Community Communities for Life Neighborhood Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities

  10. Indiana’s Vision • Indiana’s is one of the first state agencies to adopt this NNORC model and allocate significant funding to it. • Unique characteristics of this model include: • Statewide reach • Neighborhood NNORCs -- vertical, not horizontal • Economic, geographic and racial diversity – reflective of Indiana’s population

  11. Indiana’s New NNORCs 2 5 • Huntington NNORC - Aging & In-Home Services of Northeast Indiana, Fort Wayne • LaSalle Park NNORC - REAL Services, South Bend • Linton NNORC – Generations, Vincennes • Martindale/Brightwood NNORC – Martin University, Indianapolis • Midtown Gary NNORC - Gary Community Health Foundation 1 4 3

  12. CFL Accomplishments… CFL NNORC staff have: • Participated in four days of intense group training • Received one-on-one training and technical assistance • Successfully initiated community asset mapping to reveal and explore resources and assets and show the interconnections among assets. • Participated in the state-wide AdvantAge Initiative Survey and NNORC-specific training on its utilization in strategic community-planning • Developed relationships with neighborhood stakeholders and community leaders

  13. CFL Accomplishments… • Developed a structure of governance through the development of resident-led steering committees • Organized community-wide advisory committees • Launched resident education and community awareness campaigns; engaged the local media • Coordinated other localized data collection activities (surveys, focus groups, etc.) • Partnered with local universities/colleges to provide evaluation and analysis of the data collected • Assisted their steering committees in the development of NNORC work plans and time lines

  14. Banner Issues for Implementation Hunting-ton Gary Indy South Bend Linton

  15. Observations • A different role for senior leaders • Direction of influence is reversed • Community organizing is a key role for professionals • Service vs Community orientation ratio is changing, albeit slowly • State agency can influence the process

  16. ContactInformation • Philip B. Stafford, Ph.D. • Director, Center on Aging and Community, Indiana Institute on Disability & Community, 2853 East Tenth, Bloomington, IN, 47408 • (812) 855-2163 www.agingindiana.org Phil’

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