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<p class="MsoNormal">Please review Family Life Educator, Chelsey Beyers Gertenecker’s email regarding a survey being distributed. This survey is completely voluntary and if completed, you can log 1 hour of Continuing Educator towards your 10 hour requirement.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A dedicated group of community leaders are spearheading the effort to enter the Age-Friendly community network with the goals of making Champaign-Urbana more livable for community members across the lifespan. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a set of guidelines for communities who wish to seek “Age-Friendly” status and has designated AARP as their representative of this effort in the United
States. Together they have institutionalized a process to help communities prepare for upcoming demographic shifts with regard to older adults. This process involves organizing community stakeholders to evaluate, plan, and implement strategies to improve
the lives of older adults in our community. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To that end, we are seeking the voices and opinions of community members aged 50 and older to better understand both our strengths and weaknesses as a place to grow
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To make your voice heard, please participate in our survey:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><a href="http://go.illinois.edu/agefriendlycusurvey"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">http://go.illinois.edu/agefriendlycusurvey</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#E36C0A">Chelsey Byers Gerstenecker, MA<br>
Family Life Educator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Rockwell",serif"><a href="http://go.illinois.edu/familyfiles">http://go.illinois.edu/familyfiles</a></span></i><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#F79646">
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</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">University of Illinois Extension
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Champaign, IL 61821
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