No Wrong Door (NWD) Systems empower individuals to make informed decisions, to exercise control over their Long-Term Service and Support (LTSS) needs, and to achieve their personal goals and preferences. This can’t be done well without understanding how age, disability, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, poverty, language spoken, and other factors influence a person’s values and preferences. ACL recently hosted a webinar on centering equity in NWD Systems and highlighted these resources for additional information on supporting underserved populations:

• The Sage National Resource Center on LGBTQ+ Aging provides training, technical assistance and educational resources to aging providers, LGBTQ+ organizations and LGBTQ+ older adults.
• The National Association for Hispanic Elderly / Asociación Nacional Pro Personas Mayores (ANPPM) is committed to achieving social change by focusing on the needs of low-income minority and Hispanic older persons through programs of employment and training, health, housing and economic development. 
• The National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) collaborates with mainstream aging organizations who specialize in mature workers, healthy aging, family caregiving, elder justice, dementia, and long-term services and supports portfolios. Through these partnerships, NAPCA’s cultural expertise informs the collaborative development of technical assistance for professionals, such as trainings, fact sheets, reports, and culturally and linguistically appropriate educational resources.
• The National Caucus and Center on Black Aging, Inc. (NCBA) protects and improves the quality of life for elderly populations, making certain that legislators, policymakers, philanthropists, advocacy groups, service organizations, thought leaders, and the public-at-large include minority seniors in their programs, policy-and law-making, and giving.  
• The National Indian Council on Aging, Inc. (NICOA) advocates for improved comprehensive health, social services and economic well-being for American Indian and Alaska Native elders.
• The Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network help government agencies and nonprofits in states, tribes, and territories work across jurisdictional and systemic boundaries to improve supports and services for families in which grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends are raising children.
• The GrandFacts Fact Sheets for grandfamilies include data and programs as well as information about public benefits, educational assistance, legal relationship options and laws for each of the fifty states and territories.