CASI (Center for Active Seniors) has launched what its leaders call “a long-due” strategic planning initiative and is seeking input from Quad Citizens via its first-ever community survey to get it kickstarted.
CASI President and CEO Laura L. Kopp told the QCBJ recently that CASI’s board and staff are excited to take this next step in planning for its future. In advance of those planning sessions, that team has put together that community survey available here.
The overall survey is designed to gather the public’s thoughts about CASI and what senior services they believe are needed in the community. The deadline for responses is close of business on Wednesday, Sept. 17.
Questions center on what respondents value most about CASI, what services they would most like to see and what ones are missing in the Quad Cities. It also asks respondents to rank what are the most important services to its least important and to weigh in on price ranges for paid programming.
For more than 50 years, CASI has served as the premier resource for seniors in the Quad Cities. The agency’s 2026-2030 Strategic Planning Initiative comes on the heels of financial challenges that resulted in the June 4 decision to close the doors on its popular and unique Jane’s Place Adult Day Services offered at CASI at 1035 W. Kimberly Road, Davenport. CASI also discontinued its community-based senior advocacy program effective Monday, Sept. 1.
The initiative and survey launch also comes two years after the Scott County Board of Supervisors slashed all its funding for Jane’s Place in response to a 2023 property tax rollback by the Iowa Legislature.
With this new survey, CASI said, “We want input from the community on what seniors need and how CASI can best fill this need. Everything from programs/services to leisure activities. We want to hear what you and your loved ones are looking for as we all grow older together.”
Input from this survey as well as a targeted survey of our current members, will help drive the organization’s “planning for the future and will help ensure CASI remains a critical part of the aging journey for all Quad Citizens.”
