Point of Contact: Debra Gwins
Point of Contact Phone: 816-270-2800
Point of Contact Email: dgwin@platteseniors.org
Start Date: 9/15/2025
Deadline: 10/10/2025
Description of Opportunity:
The Platte County Senior Fund (PCSF) was created by a voter supported ballot initiative on November 3, 1992. PCSF began to provide services in 1994. The approved legislation allows Platte County to levy and collect a property tax of five cents per
hundred dollars of valuation, for the purpose of providing services to persons sixty years of age or older. Our vision is for Platte County to be an aging-friendly county where older residents can remain self-sufficient and independent in their home as long as
possible.
Our vision is for Platte County to be an aging-friendly County where older residents can age in place.
We support this vision by seeking applications from nonprofit agencies or city or county government to operate senior centers for Platte County residents 60+ years of age. Senior centers are age-friendly community hubs where older adults can access a range
of activities and services to improve their health, nutrition, well-being and independence. Our vision is that more than one senior center will be operated in Platte County, one in each of more than one different municipality. We believe that this will facilitate access to the senior centers by locating them closer to the service population than is the case with only one senior center in the county.