Elder Initiative

The Elder Initiative is devoted to ensuring that LGBTQ+ older adults possess the rights and opportunities to lead dynamic, inventive, and interdependently enriching lives. The Elder Initiative is committed to promoting culturally competent and inclusive services and resources to the aging LGBTQ+ community in the Philadelphia area. We also work to construct bridges between aging services and LGBTQ+ community organizations and their participants through advocacy, dissemination, education, and referral.

Now apart of the William Way LGBT Community Center, the Elder Initiative was founded in October 2010 as the "LGBT Elder Initiative" a result of the LGBT Senior Summit.  A community needs survey was conducted preceding this summit.  That survey identified physical and emotional health services, housing, case management, social services, and social networking as the most pressing needs of LGBTQ+ elders in the Philadelphia area.