Established in 1973, Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) is a private, nonprofit, nationally-recognized Area Agency on Aging (AAA). One of the region's largest nonprofit organizations, PCA has more than 650 employees in a wide variety of positions, including social work, information technology, support services and administration.
PCA funds and coordinates programs and services to help older Philadelphians and those with disabilities achieve their maximum levels of health, independence and productivity. Through its work, PCA touches the lives of more than 140,000 individuals each year.

The existing PCA employee intranet (PCA i-NET) was outdated and did not meet the needs of an organization that had transitioned to a mostly remote work environment during COVID-19.

To understand the current and future needs of the end users (PCA employees), Lyquix worked with the PCA leadership team to conduct a survey of the organization.  Based on the insights gained from the survey results, we restructured, reprioritized, and reorganized the architecture of the i-NET.

In order to provide PCA with maximum flexibility and efficiency for presenting such a large amount of content on the i-NET, the Lyquix team designed and developed a custom, responsive, accessible, modular block system for the WordPress Gutenberg editor.  Each block type was designed with flexibility in mind, easily adjusting to various quantities of information and controlled by easy-to-use selectors on the admin panel of WordPress. This approach allows the PCA team to easily build out pages by dragging and dropping content blocks onto the page.