The National Aging Civic Engagement Technical Assistance Center will:
1. Conduct a systematic inquiry of existing knowledge and opinions of key stakeholders in the aging, service, and other communities as identified, at the federal, state and local levels that will result in a recommended Action
Plan in civic engagement for AoA and the Aging Network 2. Assist the Aging Network and AoA implement recommendations from this inquiry through:
a.
Organizing meetings and conferences; b.
Providing technical assistance to State and Area Agencies on Aging on the development of effective, high impact, replicable and sustainable civic engagement programs; c.
Providing information that would be used by the Aging Network websites; and d.
funding sub grants to test a variety of strategies to enhance the of volunteer roles in the Aging Network program operations.