November 8, 2022: Capacity Building Workgroup - Leader Recruitment

Yoko Meusch, MA is a program associate with five years of service to NCOA Center for Healthy Aging (CHA). Her core expertise lies in providing extensive, hands-on technical assistance (TA) to community-based organizations (CBOs) and State Units on Aging, helping them build capacity and develop sustainability strategies for evidence-based health promotion programs focused on older adults.

As a Program Associate, she has served as a TA liaison for Administration for Community Living (ACL) grantees, providing tailored capacitybuilding and sustainability support and leading various webinars, including bi-monthly Capacity Building Workgroup for grantees. Her experience includes designing learning opportunities, developing educational materials, and managing complex program activities. She holds a Master of Arts in Communication with a concentration in Health Communication from Johns Hopkins University.

Sarah designed and launched the Center for Parkinson’s Disease and won the 2019 Degenerative Diseases Special Interest Group Service Award in recognition of her “tireless pursuit of improving the lives of individuals with [PD] who live on the East End of Long Island.” She oversees seven PD-specific wellness programs, all currently implemented remotely, with over 250 participants. She is a co-PI on the 2022-2025 ACL Falls Prevention Grant.

Kristi has over 10 years of experience coordinating health promotion programs, leading the efforts that earned the 2020 Safe States Injury Prevention Program of the Year Award. She chairs state and national hospital-based/trauma center injury prevention subcommittees. She served as a Regional Coordinator for previous ACL Falls Prevention grants before becoming a co-PI for the 2022-2025 cycle.