Make Challenges Visible
Use clear stories and community education to show where seniors face isolation, instability, or barriers to support.
Focus area · Help Portland see the full picture
Building Awareness
We make senior challenges, contributions, and possibilities more visible through stories, public education, creative events, and community-wide invitations to act.
What a city understands, it can value—and what it values, it can change.
The original website imagines a media campaign built from senior interviews and a citywide celebration called Turn the Lights Back On. Together, storytelling, music, art, and public conversation can replace stereotypes with respect and invite Portland into unity, healing, and purposeful action.
How this work takes shape
From shared purpose to practical action.
Celebrate Senior Wisdom
Lift up resilience, creativity, service, leadership, and the knowledge older adults contribute every day.
Invite a Citywide Response
Create media, events, and campaigns that give neighbors and institutions a meaningful way to participate.
Partnerships & special events
Mission Possible: Let’s Turn the Lights Back On Together
A citywide celebration of unity, respect, and healing: music, art, storytelling, and collective healing guided by the wisdom and blessings of Portland’s elders from all cultures.
This gathering is inspired by a collective vision of renewal—a partnership between community, city, and private leaders that opens pathways for healing, harmony, and new beginnings. Together, we embody the spirit: ‘We Are All in This Together.’
Stories create understanding
From Senior Voices to Public Awareness
Interviews and personal stories help Portland see both the challenges seniors face and the wisdom, resilience, creativity, and leadership older adults contribute.
By sharing these experiences through media, gatherings, music, art, and public conversation, we can educate, inspire, replace stereotypes with respect, and spark collective action.
Tools for telling the story
Press Kits for Every Kind of Outreach
Our Press Kit page gives journalists, community partners, neighborhood leaders, event hosts, advocates, and supporters an easier way to introduce Senior Voices PDX to their audiences.
Choose from purpose-specific kits with project background, key messages, story angles, supporting links, identity materials, and interview guidance. Whether you are preparing an article, inviting a speaker, promoting an event, or building a partnership, there is a useful place to begin.
Media & journalists
Find concise background, story ideas, project language, and resources for reporting on senior voices and community action.
Explore media resources →Community outreach
Use ready-to-share materials for neighborhood groups, partner organizations, events, presentations, and public conversations.
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Help us turn the lights back on.
Share a story, invite a speaker, host a conversation, or help us bring senior voices into a wider public setting.