California Local Aging and Disability Action Planning (LADAP) Grant

MPALocalSupport@aging.ca.gov

The California Local Aging and Disability Action Planning (LADAP) Grant provides funding to communities in California to plan and develop local age and disability-friendly action plans. Plans should work to improve a community's livability and address the current, emerging, and future needs of California's older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers through cross-sector collaboration and transformational systems change.

Program goals:

• Improve community livability for people of all ages and abilities centered on equity, cultural competency, community engagement, and disability inclusion principles and practices
• Combat racism, ageism, ableism, and biases in aging and disability systems of care
• Address health and other inequities that can become cumulative with age
• Elevate the strengths and voices of community members who are aging and/or living with a disability
• Communicate a clear vision and strategic priorities for building and sustaining an age- and disability-friendly community
• Strengthen the collective capacity of the community to address the current, emerging, and future aging and disability-related needs through cross-sector collaboration, defined as the intentional collaboration between two or more sectors to accomplish community goals and achieve community-level outcomes
• Transform the infrastructure and coordination of services and supports serving older adults, people with disabilities, and professional and family caregivers across sectors
• Guide government and non-government programs, services, policy, and funding
• Build, enhance, and facilitate shared leadership, partnerships, and collaborations with diverse agencies, groups, and stakeholders to identify and act on shared values, mutual goals, and opportunities

The program is focused on supporting communities and populations that have been historically under-resourced and under-served, including, but not limited to:

• Rural and frontier communities
• Tribal communities
• American Indian or Alaska Native; Black; Asian; Native Hawaiian; and Pacific Islander persons/communities/populations
• People with disabilities
• People living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons/communities/populations
• Veterans
• Professional and family caregivers
• Persons/communities/populations of lower incomes
• Persons/communities/populations of immigrant and/or refugee status

Eligible applicants include:

• Local government agencies
• Non-governmental organizations
• Tribal organizations
• Community-based nonprofits and established coalitions that are classified as 501(c)(3) tax exempt under the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Code

Award ceiling: $200,000 for the entire project period
Award floor: $75,000 for the entire project period
Project period: 15 months
Estimated number of awards: 5-15

A link to the application package is available on the program website.

Email completed applications to MPALocalSupport@aging.ca.gov.