Minnesota Board on Aging Strategic Planning

The Minnesota Board on Aging (MBA) has embarked on a strategic planning process to build on existing strengths, identify priorities and set its direction for the next three years. Working to ensure that all Minnesotans can age well and live well, the MBA seeks to ensure its infrastructure can most effectively serve older Minnesotans and is aligned with their diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) values.

As the 25-member, Governor-appointed board that is the designated state agency on aging for Minnesota, the MBA has partnered with external consultants for the strategic planning to conduct a participatory and collaborative process and to integrate a DEIA lens. Through this process, the MBA identified four new strategic directions:

• Strategic Direction 1: Define and clarify roles, responsibilities and governance structure
• Strategic Direction 2: Develop a communication strategy to strengthen partnerships and increase visibility
• Strategic Direction 3: Examine priorities and develop Board initiatives
• Strategic Direction 4: Infuse a DEIA perspective into the Board’s work

These new directions will also lay the foundation for Minnesota’s State Plan on Aging 2023-2026, which the MBA will submit to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Community Living.

The MBA is now working to create work plans to implement each new direction. As part of these plans, board members will work to integrate a DEIA lens, including seeking more voices and diverse perspectives. As part of the process, the MBA will also be reaching out to invite stakeholder input to ensure the Board’s new strategic directions reflects a broad range of perspectives.