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COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT SURVEY RESULTS

As part of Age Well Santa Cruz County and designing our Master Plan on Aging, the Human Services Department issued a county-wide Community Needs Assessment Survey in early 2024 to help us collect community feedback focused on aging in the county. Preliminary results from the survey are now available! Click on the buttons for each impact area of interest to you, to pull up a downloadable PDF data brief.

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Learn more about the ways in which our agency uses data to uncover and address the needs of older and disabled adults:

Read the County's Plight of Older & Disabled Adults press release and Preliminary Survey Results press release to learn more.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on the growing Santa Cruz County senior population's struggle for resources.
Check out this article from Lookout Santa Cruz reporting on the Age Well survey results and process.
Email us at AgeWell@santacruzcountyca.gov to learn more about our efforts.

Thank you Age Well Steering Committee!

Many thanks to the hard working members of the Age Well Steering Committee for helping complete our successful Community Needs Assessment:

Corinne Jones, Senior Network Services Director of Aging Services
Fabian Leonor, Senior Specialist with Community Life Services
Jacques Bertrand, Capitola City Councilmember
Jennifer Merchant, Grey Bears Executive Director
Katie Nunez, Watsonville Senior Center Older Adult Services Supervisor
Kelly Mercer-Lebov, City of Santa Cruz Senior Programs Recreation Coordinator
Lew Farris, Scotts Valley Senior Center Board of Directors
Michael Molesky, In Home Support Services Advisory Commissioner
Patricia E. Fohrman, In-Home Support Services Advisory Commissioner