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106 <br /> and assistance on various services and • The Master Aging Plan (MAP)(2022) <br /> programs available to them.The Project is a five-year plan that provides <br /> EngAGE Program is a community-based comprehensive and coordinated <br /> initiative that works to engage seniors delivery of community services <br /> in meaningful volunteer opportunities, and supports that foster lifelong <br /> leadership roles,and community service community engagement and well- <br /> projects. being to older adults in Orange <br /> County.The Department on Aging <br /> Policy Guidance from Other created its first MAP in 2000 and <br /> County Documents each new MAP continues to evolve <br /> to meet the needs,expectations, <br /> Orange County's policy framework for and contributions of a growing aging <br /> promoting community equity includes a population.The Master Aging Plan <br /> variety of documents designed to guide identifies goals and objectives across <br /> efforts toward making the County a more 8 topics, including outdoor spaces <br /> inclusive and equitable place for all. and buildings,transportation, housing, <br /> social participation, respect and social <br /> • The One Orange Countywide inclusion, civic participation and <br /> Racial Equity Framework(2022) employment,community support and <br /> uncovers and addresses implicit health services,and communication <br /> biases in Orange County to ensure and information. <br /> that race no longer can be used to <br /> predict life outcomes in the Orange Community Aspirations <br /> County Community.The plan has <br /> five pillars,which jurisdictions use as The survey from the 2024 Strategic Plan, <br /> a foundation for local action.The five public engagement from the One Orange <br /> pillars are:training and organizational Countywide Racial Equity Framework,and <br /> capacity,community engagement, public engagement from the Land Use <br /> racial equity index, racial equity Plan 2050 provide insights into Orange <br /> assessment lens,and evaluation and County perspectives on community <br /> accountability. equity. <br /> • The Orange County Climate Action The One Orange Countywide Racial <br /> Plan's(2023) purpose is to guide Equity Framework, published in 2022, <br /> greenhouse gas reductions in County included public engagement efforts to <br /> operations and community wide gather community feedback and assess <br /> efforts.This plan aims to unify existing whether the plan met the interests and <br /> climate work under one strategic needs of the community in advancing <br /> framework to equitably transition racial equity.A total of 660 responses were <br /> Orange County to a low-carbon, collected from participants. When asked, <br /> climate-resilient community.The "What is one hope and one fear about this <br /> plan's focus on community equity is in Countywide Racial Equity Framework?", <br /> alignment with the Board of County respondents expressed hopes for <br /> Commissioners 2010 Social Justice community, change,fair treatment, unity, <br /> Goals and the understanding that the and peace.Their fears included a lack of <br /> impacts of climate change cannot be action,the potential failure of the initiative, <br /> separated from the systemic social, and the possibility of increased racial <br /> economic,and political systems of tension and violence.When asked,"What <br /> oppression and unfairness. <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LAND USE PLAN 2050 103 <br />