| DOMAIN |
GOAL(S) |
ACTION ITEMS |
DATES |
ASSIGNED STAFF/GROUP |
| All |
Provide community wide education.
(What is an Age Friendly Community and Why is this important for Salem now and in the future?)
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- Speaker’s Bureau:
- Create Age Friendly Salem Script.
- Recruit and train volunteers/staff to speak at local opportunities.
- Create a list of community agency partners, business community, and general population groups.
- Share vision of Age Friendly Action Team.
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2022-2023
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Center 50+ Advisory Commission and Age Friendly Action Team.
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| All |
Raise TOMA surrounding Age Friendly vocabulary and goals - through speaking engagements and regular and consistent messaging surrounding Age Friendly mission and goals. |
- Recruit senior volunteers to serve on a variety of boards and committees to represent the goals of an Age Friendly Community.
- Recruit members to serve on Age Friendly Salem Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee.
- DEI to work on addressing all barriers identified and discussed in the Salem Age Friendly Assessment.
- Speak at a minimum of two outreach events each month for the course of 12 months.
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TBD |
TBD |
| Transportation |
Increase awareness of available community
transportation resources.
- Increase usage/comfort with walking
and bike riding.
- Increase usage/comfort utilizing public
transportation.
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- Support on-going outreach efforts to educate seniors on public
transportation, walking, biking and carpool options.
- Partner with local transportation and mobility experts to create an
annual senior-friendly mobility event.
- Hold regular and consistent walk/ride events.
» Support Seniors utilizing technology now used in transportation
services.
- Perform Walk-Audits in every geographic Village area annually.
- Assist with identifying assets of health, wellness, and
socialization in each neighborhood; and walking, bike,
and bus routes to support living independently in their
neighborhood.
- Consult with Age Friendly Salem DEI Committee.
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Summer 2023 |
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| Social Participation |
Assist the community in creating events that are
accessible and inviting to people of all ages and all
abilities. |
- Recruit volunteers to serve on a variety of committees and boards to
represent the needs of older adults in the creation of community-wide
events.
- Center 50+ Advisory Commission appoints one member to serve
on committees or boards representing the needs of local seniors
and to provide input on mobility issues, restroom demands, and
parking limitations.
- Recruit a team that includes people of all ages and abilities to create
an Age Friendly Event tool box.
- Find donor/sponsor so that tool box can be provided free of charge
to all (Accept donations when appropriate). Distribute 50 event tool
boxes annually.
- Consult with Age Friendly Salem DEI Committee
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Fall 2022 |
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| Housing |
Support older adults in remaining in their homes
and neighborhoods as long as they choose.
» Recognizing that seniors need a “village”
to support their desire to remain in their
homes.
- Also, recognizing that the concept of
“living independently” includes some
personal responsibility and behavior
changes.
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- Create the framework for Center 50+ Villages Network. Support
geographic areas in creating a network of seniors, volunteers, faith
community, and schools to create a “Village”.
- Create a peer-lead Village in every geographic area throughout
Salem. Roll-out 3 villages per year.
- Within the structure of the Villages, provide education,
resources and supports which assist seniors in remaining
in their homes- focusing on accessibility and home safety.
- Recruit churches, schools, and volunteers to be a “friend”
to seniors in each village.
- Offer emergency preparedness and resources that promote
resiliency as a foundational piece in each village area - a part of
every new Village member’s orientation includes: emergency prep kit,
added to reassurance call-phone tree, and support in creating a support
system.
- Consult with Age Friendly Salem DEI Committee.
|
March 2020 |
Heidi Miller/C50+ Staff and
Volunteers. |
| Housing |
Deliver programs, activities, services, and
resources through a mobile senior center model.
Taking services to neighborhoods and front
porches through the Wellness-on-Wheels Program
provided by Center 50+. |
- Recruit and train volunteers to provide Outreach Services: Friendly
Caller, Canine Corp, Friendship Brigade, Fix-it Brigade, and Tech Tutors.
|
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Center 50+ staff and volunteers,
agency partners. |
| Community
Support and
Health Services |
Insure that older adults have access to community
supports and health services. |
- Deliver programs, activities, services, and resources through a
mobile senior center model. Taking services to neighborhoods and front
porches through the Wellness-on-Wheels Program provided by Center
50+.
- Identify barriers to accessing supports/health services - resolve
those barriers.
- Deliver services to seniors where they live.
- Support access to Technology - education, equipment, and Internet access.
- Consult with Age Friendly Salem DEI Committee
|
March 2020 |
Center 50+ staff and volunteers, agency partners. |
| Community
Support and
Health Services |
Create an Age Friendly Business Certification
Program, Preferred Age Friendly Business/
Resource Director. |
- Educate businesses on the value of becoming an Age Friendly
Business.
- Help seniors connect to Age Friendly businesses and resources.
- Recruit Committee to process Age Friendly Business Applications,
provide required trainings, and perform site-visits.
- Recruit 50 businesses to become Age Friendly Certified by end of
year one.
- Work with Retirement Connection to recognize Age Friendly
Businesses in their Directory with a special asterisks and details on
what it means to be an Age Friendly Business.
|
September
2023 |
Age Friendly Business Committee
and Retirement Connection
Resource Guide. |
| Community
Support and
Health Services |
Improve and expand Technology Classes and
Support.
- Purchase 50 Chromebooks w/ full
Internet Access
- Expand to 25 Volunteers to provide
tutoring and tech support
- Acquire funding to support monthly
Internet Expense (needed by July 2022)
- Offer classes to 20 seniors per month on
using today’s technology.
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- Fund and operate tech lending library and on-going tech tutoring and
classes.
|
March 2020 |
Tech Team, Volunteers, City of
Salem, Grantors |
| Civic Participation
and Engagement |
- Increase volunteer opportunities in Salem.
- Increase the percentage of older adults in the
workforce.
- Identify and overcome potential negative
stereotypes of older workers.
- Have seniors and the community recognize
that planning for civic engagement is a key
component of retirement planning.
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- Develop promotional messages and materials to educate agencies
and municipalities on the value of hiring seniors.
- Hold Annual Senior Career Fair and Hiring Event - creating an event
that connects non-profits to local seniors.
- Hold annual conference on finding passion and purpose as you age.
- Create benefit structure or stipend program to support volunteer
participation. Remove barriers for low-income seniors to volunteer.
- Create Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee focused on
employment after 50 and barriers to civic engagement.
|
September 2022 |
Tech Team, Volunteers, City of
Salem, Grantors |
| Communication |
Create a Communication Team |
- Assist Center 50+ in creating an Age Friendly Communication Plan.
- Serve as a consultant to other agencies seeking to create an Age Friendly Communication Plan.
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