Every year NCOA’s National Institute of Senior Centers honors outstanding efforts made by senior centers across the nation to offer innovative, creative, and impactful programs for older adults. Each program is proof of the important work that happens at senior centers. And these programs serve as models for senior center staff across the country to implement in their communities. Join us for our Programs of Excellence webinar series where we highlight each category with a presentation by a subject matter expert and the winning programs.

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Marchele Jenkins, Executive Director

Darren Hotton, Associate Director of Community Health and Benefits

Every year NCOA’s National Institute of Senior Centers honors outstanding efforts made by senior centers across the nation to offer innovative, creative, and impactful programs for older adults. Each program is proof of the important work that happens at senior centers. And these programs serve as models for senior center staff across the country to implement in their communities. Join us for our Programs of Excellence webinar series where we highlight each category with a presentation by a subject matter expert and the winning programs.

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Mary Jo Riley, Senior Center Supervisor

Mike Wilson, Director

Joanne Moore, Director

Join us for this NISC Programs of Excellence Series featuring the winning programs in the Health and Wellness category. We will also be joined by Kathy Cameron, Senior Director of NCOA’s Center for Healthy Aging.

In this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Highlight best practices from Programs of Excellence programs.
2. Describe innovative, creative, and impactful health and wellness programs for older adults.
3. Share innovative ways senior centers have made meaningful impact in health and wellness for older adults. 

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Kathleen Cameron, Senior Director, Center for Healthy Aging

Paula Woischke, MS, Director

Boliver Choi, Program Supervisor

Join us for the second webinar in our NISC Programs of Excellence Series featuring the winning programs in the Intergenerational category.

In this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Highlight best practices from Programs of Excellence programs.
2. Describe innovative, creative, and impactful programs for older adults.
3. Share innovative ways senior centers have made meaningful multigenerational engagement. 

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Nancy Henkin, Senior Fellow

Pat DiGrigoli, Senior Center Director

Paula Woischke, MS, Director

Barbara Franke, Senior Center Director

Every year NCOA’s National Institute of Senior Centers honors outstanding efforts made by senior centers across the nation to offer innovative, creative, and impactful programs for older adults. Each program is proof of the important work that happens at senior centers. And these programs serve as models for senior center staff across the country to implement in their communities. Join us for our Programs of Excellence webinar series where we highlight each category with a presentation by a subject matter expert and the winning programs.

This webinar features the Marketing and Public Relations category. This award category highlights the innovative ways senior centers have reached their communities—through marketing campaigns, branding, positioning, and outreach that has raised the visibility of the center, attracted new participants, or brought in new partners. Special emphasis is placed on those efforts that helped to get people back into the senior center after pandemic closures.

In this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Highlight best practices from Programs of Excellence programs.

2. Describe innovative, creative, and impactful programs for older adults.

3. Analyze innovative ways senior centers have reached their communities through marketing campaigns and public relations. 

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Christina K. Crain, M.S.W., Executive Director

Jackie Thomas, Senior Content Strategist

Jessica Migneault, Assistant Director of Senior Services

Join us for the last webinar in our 2022 Programs of Excellence series. We will feature the top programs in two categories – Technology and Hybrid Programming. And stay tuned for information about the 2023 Programs of Excellence series!

Technology

• Winner: Technology Makers Space—Woodbury Senior Center, Woodbury, Connecticut
• Honorable mention: Tech Talks—Ateaze Senior Center, Baltimore, Maryland  

Hybrid Programming

• Winner: Wellness Workshop Without Walls—Whitney Senior Center, St. Cloud, Minnesota
• Honorable mention: Senior Center Without Walls—Sowega Council on Aging, Albany, Georgia

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Join us for this webinar on our Programs of Excellence series featuring the winners in the Health and Wellness category. We will also be joined by Kathleen Cameron, Senior Director of the NCOA Center for Healthy Aging, where she provides subject matter expertise on health care programmatic and policy related issues and oversees the Modernizing Senior Center Resource Center.

Winner: Elder Day—Seven Oaks Senior Center, Nottingham, Maryland Honorable mention: Peapods—Duxbury Senior Center, Duxbury, Massachusetts

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Kathleen Cameron, Senior Director, Center for Healthy Aging

Kathleen Young, Programming Manager

Joanne Moore, Director

Carol Boudrieau, (Retired) Program Coordinator

Join us for this webinar in our Programs of Excellence series featuring the winners in the Reducing Social Isolation category. We will also be joined by Meredith Hanley, USAging’s Director, Community Capacity Building. In this role, she oversees engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults, a national effort to increase the social engagement of older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers.

Winner: CheckMates: AgeWell at the JCC—Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh Honorable mention: Rooted in Resilience—Overlea Fullerton Senior Center, Baltimore County, Maryland

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Amy Gold, MSW, Program Coordinator

Tracey Colagrossi, Senior Center Manager

Meredith Hanley, Director of Community Capacity Building

Join us for this webinar in our Programs of Excellence series featuring the winners of the Nutrition Category. We will be joined by experts from the National Nutrition and Aging Resource Center with information about Nutrition & Aging Resource Center; Older Americans Act nutrition services and how programs are attracting a new audience, offering choice and flexibility in service delivery (including grab and go, choice menus, restaurant partnerships, culturally specific meals and medically tailored meals)

Winner: Nutritional Distribution Outreach—The Cheshire Senior Center, Cheshire, Connecticut Honorable mention: Grocery Delivery—Eden Prairie Senior Center, Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Jenna Hauss, President and CEO

Sue Bohnsack,CTRS, Recreation Supervisor

Stefanie Theroux, Coordinator

Bambi Press, RD, LD, Healthy Aging Director

Join us on February 28, 2023 at 1 p.m. ET for the second webinar in our NISC Programs of Excellence Series featuring the winning programs in the Cultural Programs category. We will also be joined by Mario Rubano, MPH, Policy Associate with New York Academy for Medicine’s Center for Healthy Aging for a conversation about the Older Adults Equity Council and working with diverse elders. 

Winner: Honoring Legacies – Thrive 55+ Groton, Connecticut

Honorable mention: Historical Perspectives – Parkville Senior Center, Baltimore County

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Mario Rubano, Policy Associate

Mary Jo Riley, Senior Center Supervisor

Join us on January 26^th at 2 p.m. ET for the first webinar in our NISC Programs of Excellence Series featuring the winning programs in the Marketing and Public Relations category. We will also be joined by NCOA’s Advancement Team for a conversation about marketing and senior centers.  

Winner: 12 Days of Christmas—Norwell Council of Aging, Norwell, Massachusetts

Honorable mention: Caring Club—Calabasas Senior Center, Calabasas, California

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Karen Davis, Chief Development & Marketing Officer

Susan Curtin, Director

Kimberly Post, Senior Center Supervisor

Carol Davis, Co-founder, Calabasas Savvy Senior Program

Jenna Hauss, President and CEO

Join us for a fun and interactive summit where we look at how we communicate about senior centers. We will provide information, resources, examples, and activities that you can use to enhance the image of your center and be an agent of change in combatting ageism in your community.

In this session, participants will be able to: 

1. Explore and overcome challenges of senior centers.
2. Discuss ways everyone can practice to be an influencer.
3. Outline next steps to promote reframing aging in positive ways. 

Hannah Albers, Program Director

Claire M. Côté, Field Representative

Donya Currie, Senior Editor, NCOA

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Join us for a fun and interactive summit where we look at how we communicate about senior centers. We will provide information, resources, examples, and activities that you can use to enhance the image of your center and be an agent of change in combatting ageism in your community.

In this session, participants will be able to: 

1. Explore and overcome challenges of senior centers.
2. Discuss ways everyone can practice to be an influencer.
3. Practice ways to reframe aging.

Hannah Albers, Program Director

Claire M. Côté, Field Representative

Donya Currie, Senior Editor, NCOA

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

Join us for a fun and interactive summit where we look at how we communicate about senior centers. We will provide information, resources, examples, and activities that you can use to enhance the image of your center and be an agent of change in combatting ageism in your community.

In this session, participants will be able to: 

1. Explore and overcome challenges of senior centers.
2. Share and discuss ways to reframe aging.
3. Gain insight from other experiences and incorporate in your practice. 

Hannah Albers, Program Director

Claire M. Côté, Field Representative

Donya Currie, Senior Editor, NCOA

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC

“Meeting by Invitation Only”

The NISC Senior Center Leadership Collaborative is intended to create a cohesive national senior center network organized to participate in a collaborative learning environment to share best  practices,  national  initiatives,  strategies  and  resources  to  spur innovation  and  to identify  national  senior  center  leaders. This  initiative  welcomes  appointed  state association  leaders,  network  leaders,  and  leaders  of  NISC  accredited  centers  as members of the collaborative.

Dianne Stone, Associate Director of Network Development and Engagement, Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center and NISC