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OAKLAND/MACOMB COUNTIES — Since 1974, the Area Agency on Aging 1-B, based in Southfield, has aimed to assist older adults and people with disabilities, as well as providing support to family caregivers in Southeast Michigan. Katie Wendel, the director of planning and advocacy for the AAA 1-B, facilitated an annual implementation plan hearing May 11. The virtual hearing served as a public forum allowing older adults and caregivers to learn more about the spending plan and speak directly with the agency about their questions. “We have local control over how we spend those federal and state dollars. So while all Area Agencies on Aging receive similar funding, we have choices about what we prioritize in our community. And we’re proud of those local ties and how we’re able to utilize this funding to meet the needs that we see in our community,” Wendel said. The comment period has closed for the 2024 fiscal plan, which will run from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024, and the spending plan is being finalized. Wendel said that every three years, the AAA 1-B does a larger, multiyear plan, and in the fall of the subsequent two years, they do plan updates. Currently, the AAA 1-B is in year two of their 2023 to 2025 multiyear plan. For 2024, AAA 1-B’s fiscal plan has $26 million in federal
ABOVE: Young dancers from Impulse Dance Academy light up the stage during their Juneteenth performance in Southfield June 17. TOP LEFT: A girl gets her face painted. TOP RIGHT: Poet and spoken word artist Joel Fluent Greene is photographed with his daughter. Photos by Darren Hood
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