Advocacy Issues on Fire
Learn about the public policy issues that matter in your community and gain techniques for effective advocacy.

Age Positive Workplaces: What does it mean and why it matters?
Learn what makes an age positive workplace and why it matters. This webinar focused on the importance of leveraging the power of older workers and the benefits of a welcoming and diverse workplace for all ages!

Age Positive Workplaces in Action
Learn how businesses and organizations from around the region are leading the way on leveraging the power of older workers and creating an age positive work environment for employees of all ages.

Ageism is Bad for Your Health
This webinar focuses on ageism, the negative impacts on our health and how we can change the conversation moving forward. During the recent COVID-19 response we have seen a marked increase in ageist attitudes–from naming conronavirus the “Boomer Buster” to cartoons asking people to choose grandma or the economy. Listen in to this webinar to learn more about changing the conversation on aging in the current climate and how we move forward together with effective messaging.

Building an Effective & Sustainable Communications Strategy
Whether you’re announcing a new volunteer transportation network, promoting an event, recruiting volunteers, asking for money or advocating for change, creating a thoughtful, effective strategy for communicating your message is critical to your success.

Engaging Communities Through Social and Print Media
Part of the Idea and Experience Exchange: Wisdom Inquiry Series. This conversation focused on engaging the community through social and print media.

Engaging with Reframing & Promoting Health
Part of the Idea and Experience Exchange: Wisdom Inquiry Series. This is a followup conversation from our General Interest Webinar, Ageism is Bad for Your Health, focused on changing the narrative on aging within your own community.

Engaging Your Community
Part of the Idea and Experience Exchange: Wisdom Inquiry series. This conversation focused on activities that can help you engage residents in the lifelong community work you are doing.

Frameworks
This webinar explored key findings from a series of FrameWorks studies that were conducted in partnership with a collaboration of leading aging organizations and funders. The studies were designed to explore how the public views older adults in this country and how media and expert discourse help shape these understandings.

Let’s Talk About Care Workers
This special presentation by FrameWorks Institute overviewed their recently released report, “Public Thinking About Care Work in a Time of Social Upheaval“ followed by conversations about how we can begin to move the needle on building a robust and reliable care workforce that is valued in all ways for the work they do.

Making Census 2020 Count in Your Community
During this webinar, hear from US Census 2020 partnership specialists from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. They explained how Census 2020 will work in our region to make sure the count is as accurate as possible and how to make sure people are protected from fraud.

Messaging Matters: Age-Positive Data, Images, and Storytelling
The words, images, and numbers we use when communicating about aging matter! This webinar explores and shares resources to help us shift the way we leverage data, images, and stories to embed age-positivity into how we communicate about our work with and for older adults.

Reframing Aging
This webinar, led by the FrameWorks Institute, will offer guidance on how to talk about aging, demographic change, and elder abuse in ways that foster greater public understanding of these issues and promote positive social change. It is the “part 2” of the original Frameworks webinar (see above)

Click to read how lifelong communities across northern New England are spreading the word about the work they are doing and making it easier for people to find the resources they need.