8th Annual Statewide Conference

We are thrilled to announce that our 8th Annual Statewide Village Conference is coming to Los Angeles!

📅 Thursday–Friday, September 17 & 18, 2026
📍 Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
301 North Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007

JOIN US FOR VILLAGES, RESILIENCE, AND THE POWER OF COMMUNITY. This year, we gather around the theme of Resiliency — honoring the strength, adaptability, and enduring spirit of the village movement across California.

  • Thursday, 9/17 at 12:30PM – Cocktail reception to follow 
  • Friday, 9/18, 9AM-4:30PM – Lunch and snacks will be served 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Michelle Martin, Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton – College of Health and Human Development and author of The Age of Becoming, which examines women and aging through a structural lens.

 

EARLY BIRD TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

Individual – $85, Group of Four – $295

 

Join over 100 village leaders, elected officials, sponsors, stakeholders, and researchers who are transforming the experience of aging across our state. Together, we connect, share insights, and strengthen a movement built on care, connection, and dignity.

Interested in supporting this year’s event? Partner with VMC by sponsoring our 8th Annual Statewide Conference and its opening reception — a meaningful opportunity to align your organization with a statewide movement transforming how California ages.

More information on the agenda, tickets, lodging, and sponsorship opportunities is coming soon. We hope to see you there!

SEE HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR 2025 ANNUAL STATEWIDE CONFERENCE.

 

 

ChaiVIllageLA members toast another successful outing

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ChaiVillageLA

ChaiVillageLA is the first synagogue-based village in the country, a bold partnership of two cutting-edge Los Angeles-area synagogues­—Temple Emanuel and Temple Isaiah—to challenge their congregants to rethink their paradigms of aging and use their accumulated experience, talents, wisdom and creativity to build a community of support, caring and enrichment. Being a faith-based village, ChaiVillageLA aligns itself with the values of its synagogues and the wider Jewish community.