Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
OUR ACCOUNTABILITY
We recognize that inequity is an internal journey for AGE+, and not just an external phenomenon. We acknowledge that even while seeking to help, our organization is part of a dominant culture system that has caused injury and harm. We understand the need to continually examine and address our biases, prejudices, and dominant culture assumptions, and improve as an organization by embedding diversity, equity and inclusion.
OUR VALUES
We commit to embody equity in our values and principles, including:
- The worth and dignity of every aging person
- The power of communities to decide for themselves
- The importance of relationships, not just results
- The value of listening and learning, not just talking and teaching
- The contribution of different ways of thinking, speaking, deciding and acting
OPERATIONALIZING OUR VALUES:
We commit to apply diversity, equity and inclusion operationally across our organization, including in how we:
- Govern, advocate and establish policy
- Allocate our resources
- Operate, including our policies, procedures and practices
- Populate, retain and develop our Board, staff and volunteers
- Develop, implement and evaluate our programs
- Partner, support and learn from communities
- Advocate collaboratively against bias and prejudice in the aging system
- Communicate about and market ourselves
- Lead with age while focusing on intersection with race and other inequities
- Evaluate, assess and report on our progress and continued work
STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT
Native Land Acknowledgement
We recognize that AGE+ resides and provides programs and services on the ancestral homelands of the Tribes who have rights and interests in Oregon and our communities.
Given our commitment to the principles embodied in equity and inclusion, we acknowledge our resolve to actively recognize and to make visible by our programs and policies the special role and recognition of tribal and indigenous elders on whose ancestral lands we reside.