Long Beach Senior Arts Colony

EngAGE, Inc. changes lives by transforming affordable senior housing communities into vibrant centers of learning, wellness, and creativity. Since 2010, we have been providing innovative programming supporting low-income seniors @ Long Beach Senior Arts Colony in District 1.

EngAGE developed a framework for co-creating intentionally designed programming to address the epidemic of loneliness and isolation for older adults by creating beneficial social connections and a strong sense of belonging for our senior residents and partners in all the communities we serve.

We achieve this by providing professionally delivered, free, on-site programs in the arts & creativity, health & wellness, lifelong learning, and community building. We create connection encouraging residents to contribute to their communities in meaningful ways. We build strong collaborations with local community partners to expand our impact in each neighborhood.

We believe in #SeniorMoments and #ThrivingFamilies!

Since 1999, EngAGE, Inc. has embraced a whole-person approach to creativity and wellness and has been at the forefront of addressing social determinants of healthy aging by providing arts, wellness, and lifelong learning programs to low-income older adults living in affordable housing communities. We currently serve over 6,000 residents at 43 communities throughout California and in the Portland Oregon area.

Right here in Long Beach, EngAGE offers older adults access to high-quality program instruction and events. Addressing isolation and loneliness through connectedness is the foundation of our service provision with an emphasis on developing healthy lifestyles and opportunities for aging-in-place. Community social and educational programs include multiple weekly workshops of varying interests and focuses. Our programming is provided on a semester basis and is taught by teaching artists and educators. Each semester includes 6-12-week classes in a range of disciplines such as arts & creativity, health & wellness, lifelong learning, and intergenerational programming.

Our Program Directors, Teaching Artists, and Community Partners bring proven expertise in the arts and education. This knowledge and expertise ensures that residents, who are often overlooked due to economic barriers, have meaningful opportunities for healthy aging through social connection.