Public outreach: sage advocates at the federal, state and local levels for public policies that will end discrimination and improve economic security, community support, health and wellness among the growing population of lgbt older people and older people living with HIV. Our federal policy program works to ensure that policymakers in congress and the administration enact policies that address the needs of lgbt older people and older people living with HIV. Additionally, sage works with local lgbt aging advocates around the country to develop and achieve their local and state policy agendas. Sage builds the capacity of local sage affiliates nationwide to provide services and to engage in policy advocacy that improves the lives of their local constituents. In the process, we build a national, grassroots movement to protect the rights and improve the quality of life of lgbt elders. From rural to urban settings, in every region of the country, sagenet leaders are creating local supports for lgbt older people in their communities, training their aging service networks, and reaching out to government leaders to address the public policies that affect lgbt elders. Sage collaborates with 29 local sage affiliates in 21 states and puerto rico. Through sagenet, sage and its affiliates engaged more than 13,000 lgbt older adults in 2019.Sage is fully committed to diversity and equity and is in the midst of a multi-year diversity and equity initiative that focuses on racial, gender, and other forms of equity. Sage partners with leaders in the aging field and the lgbt movement to broaden our collective reach, increase awareness of the needs of lgbt elders among policymakers and providers through education and training, and inform one another's approaches to improving the lives of lgbt older people. Sage recognizes the tremendous value of partnership and coalition building. This is evident across all of our activities, including in the work of a historic diverse elders coalition comprising national organizations representing elders from diverse and under-represented ethnic and racial groups as well as lgbt elders.

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