We provide a sense of community and advocate for LGBTQ+ elders. Our goals are to educate the general public, service providers, and the LGBTQ+ community about the unique challenges older LGBTQ+ adults face, to connect them to opportunities for support, and to create a community of older LGBTQ+ folks who socialize together, learn together, and look out for one another.
We envision a thriving community of older LGBTQ+ people with access to resources and support to meet their social, advocacy, educational, and health needs in the Albuquerque metropolitan area.
Our mission is to provide support for older LGBTQ+ people in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area through advocacy, social programs, education, support groups, and resource distribution. We counter isolation, fear, and loneliness by creating a caring community of LGBTQ+ elders who will look out for each other and share some laughs.
We refuse to be invisible!
Managed by an Advisory Committee of mostly older LGBTQ+ community members, we provide social and educational programs to enhance the lives of older gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals in Albuquerque and the surrounding area.
We have provided LGBTQ+ Cultural Competency Training to senior serving organizations. The goal of this training is to educate the general public, service providers, and the LGBTQ+ community about the unique challenges older LGBTQ+ adults face and to connect LGBTQ+ elders to opportunities for support.
Our goal is to educate the general public, service providers, and the LGBTQ+ community about the unique challenges older LGBTQ+ adults face and to connect LGBTQ+ elders to opportunities for support.
For more details, contact the ORCA Steering Committee (SCORCA or SC) at SC@ORCAABQ.org
or
write to us at (or send a check to):
P.O. Box 20421
Albuquerque, NM 87154
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