Senior Centers 2016: Presentation Topics and Ideas

Senior Centers 2016: Presentation Topics and Ideas

Building successful senior center partnerships

With hospitals With adult day services With educational institutions With area agencies With long term care and assisted living facilities With for profit organizations (e.g. fitness, travel, finance) With local government entities Other successful, innovative partnerships

Community visibility, support and leadership

Successful advocacy for obtaining and sustaining local public funding Helping businesses become elder-friendly Involvement in and support of communities for a lifetime initiatives Developing positive relationships with local elected leaders Senior Center Accreditation: a tool to raise visibility and strengthen image Senior centers as the local aging expert

Resource development

Revenue from membership and fee-based programs and services Cultivating and increasing the number of major donors Bequests, memorials, and planned giving: Why not the senior center? Effectively communicating our value to participants and the community Developing and growing effective annual campaigns Beyond fundraising for long-term viability Successful 501 ? 3 senior center foundations Researching, targeting, and cultivating grant funders

Marketing and image

Segmented marketing for a 50 year age span Making words count: program descriptions that provoke action "Word of Mouth" marketing: making it work for you What's in your BHAG? Surveys that work Promoting the "glass half full" perspective on aging

Administration and governance

Transforming boards and advisory councils from baggage to boosters Getting the right people on the bus (and in the right seat)

 Understanding and overcoming resistance to change Self-directed leadership teams Elevating volunteers to paraprofessional staff Staff leadership teams and succession planning Self-assessment as an educational and training tool for board and staff RX for senior centers: starting, ending, and revitalizing

Innovative programs and services

Evidence based programs: Success in gaining broad dissemination and participation throughout the center

Retirement 101: the senior center's role in helping older adults understand benefits, social security, Medicare, and long-term care/Medicaid.

Food, fellowship, and fun: re-invigorating or moving beyond the "meal site" mentality. Reaching boomers as an I/R resource to help with aging parents Traveling on a shoestring: something for everyone Community-wide partnerships for educational programming Successful outreach, programming, and opportunities for involvement for minority

groups, and the LGBT community Cross cultural programming: building acceptance and understanding Tackling controversies: point counter point programming Effective public policy education for public officials and center participants Accommodating ADC participants and special populations in a senior center environment Senior employment, boomers, and millennials Home modification for a lifetime Spiritual wellness and sage-ing Sustainable intergenerational programming Poverty and homelessness Addressing and accommodating mental illness in a senior center environment Health literacy

This list is not exhaustive! Other ideas will be considered for presentations as well. Please send any questions to NISC Member Services at membership@ or 1-800-373-4906.

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