Elder Women in CA Lead Change for Healthy Aging

$25 — Pays for travel costs for one local elder woman to participate in a town hall meeting to voice her concerns about issues that impact her long-term health and vitality $50 — Pays for outreach to elder marginalized communities to participate in town hall meetings $100 — One elder woman is able to travel to the state capitol to meet with legislators and advocate for issues that affect the health and well-being of all elder women

Summary
The Elder Women’s Initiative will build the capacity of diverse elder women and their allies to advocate for systems change that affects their health and well-being and in turn the broader community.

Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Elder women face vast economic inequities which can lead to chronic illness, inadequate health care and dwindling personal resources. Especially hard hit are women of color, immigrant women, low-income women and other underserved populations in California. In order to address these issues, we will hold listening sessions for elder women and their allies to speak to policy makers regarding their needs and assets in Oakland, Fresno and Los Angeles.

Activities
We will hold three town hall-style events which will bring together diverse elder women and their allies with policy makers to discuss the issues they face and the assets they and their communities have to offer.

Potential Long Term Impact
Diverse elder women and their allies lead change for a California where we can all age in our own homes with well-being, dignity and economic security.

Project Message
This is a critical opportunity to create a new definition of what aging means today. It provides a venue for older women to create a vision of aging with dignity, well-being and economic security.
- Roma Guy, Health Policy Chair, California Women’s Agenda

Project Sponsor: The Women's Foundation of California
Theme: Health | Location: United States
Funding to Date: $0 | Need:$15,000
Project #2162 on GlobalGiving.com