ARDC’s mission is “To serve the people of the Arrowhead Region by providing local units of government and citizens groups a means to work cooperatively in identifying needs, solving problems and fostering local leadership.” The Advisory Committee on Aging (ACA) is a group of citizen leaders elected by the commission to ensure AAAA fulfills this mission as it pertains to the arrowheads aging community members. The ACA works to develop policy and supporting services to help shape the future and improve the quality of life for older people in the Arrowhead region by providing stakeholder representation from each county in the region and oversight to AAAA.