AFPHS Learning Communities
A structured, interactive learning experience for public health professionals to build expertise, strengthen collaboration, and advance healthy aging in their communities.
What Is a Learning Community?
The AFPHS Learning Communities bring together public health professionals from across the country to move from learning about age-friendly public health to putting it into practice.
Participants will explore the AFPHS 6Cs Framework, learn from experts and peers, identify opportunities within their own agencies and communities, and develop an actionable plan for advancing age-friendly public health practice.
Grounded in the AFPHS 6Cs Framework
The AFPHS Learning Communities are grounded in the 6Cs Framework for Age-Friendly Public Health Systems and will build upon the AFPHS 6Cs Training and Implementation Guide. The learning communities will provide participants with opportunities to deepen their understanding of the framework and explore practical strategies for applying the 6Cs to public health programs, policies, and partnerships.
Through expert guidance, peer learning, and collaborative discussions, participants will explore how the 6Cs can inform their work, strengthen organizational capacity, and support the integration of healthy aging into public health practice, with advancing equity at the center.
Why Join an AFPHS Learning Community?
Participating in an Age-Friendly Public Health Systems (AFPHS) Learning Community offers an opportunity to build knowledge, strengthen partnerships, and advance age-friendly public health practices.
Benefits of participation include:
- Learn from experts: Gain insights, practical strategies, and guidance from faculty and leaders with expertise in aging and public health.
- Connect with peers: Build relationships with public health professionals and organizations across the country who share a commitment to healthy aging.
- Share experiences and promising practices: Exchange ideas, successes, and lessons learned with others working to advance age-friendly public health initiatives.
- Build capacity: Strengthen your knowledge and skills to integrate healthy aging into public health programs, policies, and practices.
- Explore practical solutions: Identify approaches to common challenges and opportunities for advancing age-friendly public health systems.
- Turn learning into action: Apply new knowledge, tools, and strategies to support age-friendly efforts within your organization or community.
- Strengthen collaboration: Discover opportunities to engage partners across public health, aging services, health care, and other sectors.
Learning Community at a Glance
7 – Monthly Sessions
Interactive sessions with faculty and peers
Who Can Participate
Public health professionals and teams
Cost
No cost to participate
Faculty
Kelly Harnish, MPH, MCHES
