The National Center on Law & Elder Rights is hosting a free webinar entitled Strategies to Mitigate Bias in Legal and Aging Services on January 24, 2024 from 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Eastern. 

Older adults may face inequities at the intersection of age and other identities, including race and ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity, and language. Legal services programs, aging services providers, and other advocates play a critical role in ensuring that underserved and marginalized older adults have access to the services they need to age with dignity.

This webinar will outline two promising strategies that advocates can implement in their service delivery to advance equity for older adults: asset mapping, which is a process of understanding community development and encouraging community growth; and bias mitigation, the process of reducing the negative effects of cognitive biases.

This webinar will:

• Provide an overview of how equity principles, implicit biases, service rationing, and asset mapping relate to legal and aging service organizations’ efforts to better target services to older adults with the greatest economic and social needs;
• Outline specific strategies to mitigate service rationing behaviors and promote asset mapping practices to better target services to older adults in marginalized communities; and
• Describe opportunities to receive technical assistance from NCLER on advancing equity in legal and aging services programs.

Presenters:

Archie Roundtree, Attorney for Equity Advocacy, Justice in Aging
Sahar Takshi, Attorney for Equity Advocacy, Justice in Aging

Capacity for this session is limited to 3,000 participants, and all participants will have the option of accessing audio through the computer or by phone. Closed captioning will be available. Please be sure to log onto the webinar a few minutes early in order to secure your place for the live presentation on Zoom. If you would like to request ASL interpretation or have other accessibility related questions, please email ncler@acl.hhs.gov at least one week in advance.