Who is the community? Why are you engaging with them? Who does community engagement serve? How will you ensure you are reaching folks who are typically excluded? Are you prepared to act on recommendations that come from the community?
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The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation and Root Cause worked together to develop a first-of-its-kind report to understand Washtenaw County, Michigan's healthy aging support system and what could be improved.
In our last episodes of the Washtenaw Chronicles, we described our partnership with the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation (AAACF) to capture older adults' aging experience and how well systems are working. The goal: guide its place-based strategy for driving systems change and achieving aging justice for the older adults living across Washtenaw County, MI.
My latest experience partnering with older adults spurred an aha moment around the work of ‘community engagement.’
Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
Services: Strategy & Implementation, Systems Mapping
Topics: Health & Well-Being
