Local Playbook
The MPA Local Playbook:
Take Action to Build a California for All Ages
The Master Plan for Aging Playbook is designed to assist state and local government, communities, and private and philanthropic organizations in building environments that promote an age-friendly and disability-friendly California.
Download the MPA Local Playbook and explore resources below.
Play One: Use the Governor’s Blueprint to Engage Your Local Leaders
Collaborative, and cross-sector, partnerships are the key to implementing successful projects, policies, and initiatives. It is important to get the right leaders at the table. Local government, community planners, aging and disability advocates, and subject matter experts are all important players. The list below will help you identify your local and regional leaders in community development and the aging and disability fields.
- Find Your Area Agency on Aging
- Find Aging & Adult Service Providers in Your County
- Local Health Department Directory
- State Independent Living Council’s Independent Living Center Locator
- CA Foundation for Independent Living Centers (ILC) - Find an ILC
- California Collaborative for Long Term Services & Supports Members
- California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies
- CalPACE
- Stanford Center on Longevity
- Stanford Geriatric Education Center
- UCLA Luskin Center for Policy Research on Aging
- UCLA Geriatric Medicine
- UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program
- UC Berkeley Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services
- UC Berkeley Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging
- UC Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing: Family Caregiving Institute and Aging Initiatives
- UC Irvine Center of Excellence on Elder Abuse & Neglect
- UC San Diego Gerontology Research Collaborative
- UC San Francisco Division of Geriatrics
- University of Southern California: Family Caregiver Resource Center
- University of Southern California: Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
- CA Colleges and Universities with Gerontology Graduate Programs
- CSU Gerontology Programs
- American River College - Gerontology
Play Two: Explore Local Data
Meaningful metrics are the foundation of the planning and evaluation of our work. There are several publicly available and user-friendly data sets that can help determine the focus of your project.
Play Three: Review Local Age-Friendly Models
Successful age-friendly projects have been implemented around the world. It’s important to get to know your own community and what have been the identified priorities for older adults and aging services.
- Age Forward: A Framework for anAge-Friendly County of Marin
- West Sacramento, CA
- Age Well San Diego and Aging Roadmap
- Purposeful Aging Los Angeles
- Chula Vista: Creating an Age-Friendly City
- Age-Friendly Seattle
- Age-Friendly Portland
- The Village Movement California
- I Feel Young In my Singapore! Action Plan for Successful
- Grantmakers in Aging’s Age-Friendly Database
- Rural Health InformationHub: Rural Aging in Place Toolkit:
- Rural Health InformationHub: Community Supports for Rural Aging in Place and Independent Living:
- University of North Dakota: Rural Health Research Gateway
- University of Wisconsin: Healthy Aging in Rural Towns (HeART) Toolkit
- Tivity Health Healthy Aging Coalition
- Tivity Health Aging Well in Rural America
- Age-Friendly Rural and Remote Communities: A Guide
- Grantmakers in Aging: Rural Aging Initiative
Play Four: Select Your MPA Initiatives for Implementation
The California Master Plan for Aging focuses on five bold goals and twenty-three action areas for the state. To be successful at the local level, it is important to determine the primary problems to be solved and areas of opportunity for your community. Resources that align with the MPA and could be helpful at the local level are below.
Goal One: Housing for All Ages & Stages
- LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc
- SAGE: National LGBTQ+Housing Initiative:
- SAGE: Housing Development Toolkit: Strategies for Housing Developers and Nonprofits/CBOs in DevelopingLGBTQ-Affirming Affordable Elder Housing:
- MPA Webinar Wednesday: Housing
- Grantmakers in Aging: Innovation@Home: An Introduction for Funders
- AARP: 6 Creative Housing Options
Goal Two: Health Reimagined
Goal Three: Inclusion & Equity, Not Isolation
- CDA: CA for ALL Ages, Combat Ageism
- Diverse Elders Coalition Resources
- Justice In Aging: Equityin Aging Toolkit
- MPA Webinar Wednesday: Inclusion
- CoGenerate
- National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults
- CA Department of Aging: Equity in Aging Resource Center
- Example Project: We’re Still Here
- Changing the Narrative: Ending Ageism Together
Goal Four: Caregiving That Works
Goal Five: Affording Aging
Play Five: Build Your Action Plan
Once you’ve determined your project’s focus, it’s important to develop a clear scope of work with goals, objectives, strategies, and evaluation measures. Age-friendly community, program, and project planning resources are below.
- Center for Health CareStrategies: Getting Started with a MPA
- AARP
- World Health Organization’s Essentials of Age-Friendly Cities
- Grantmakers in Aging: Guiding Principles for the Sustainability of Age-Friendly Community Efforts
- Making Your Community Livable for All Ages
- 880 cities: Civic Engagement Tools
- The Community Guide: Program Planning Resource
- American PlanningAssociation: Voices of Equity in Planning:
- AARP: Equity By Design
- Long Beach Equity Toolkit
- Community Populations: Priority Populations
- SCAG: Equity Resource Guide
- Strengthen Your State and Local Aging Plan - A Practical Guide for Expanding the Inclusion of LGBT Older Adults
- League of California Cities: Advancing Equity
- California Department of Aging: Ensuring Equity in Aging Resource Center
- California Department of Aging: California for ALL Ages anti-ageism resources
- An Intersectional Approach to Services and Care for LGBT Elders
- National Resource Center on LGBT Aging: Strengthen Your State and Local Aging Plan
- American Planning Association: Equity Resources
Play Six: Evaluating Your Age-Friendly Community Program
Play Seven: Stay Connected
We learn from each other’s experiences. Tell us about your project! We may highlight it on our webpage to inspire other communities across California.
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