Intergenerational Program Database

DOROT offers unique opportunities for families with children ages 5- 12 to engage with older adults. These opportunities include: -Intergenerational after-school chess -Holiday & birthday visits, where families visit an isolated older adult and bring care packages -Engagement with older adults for children receiving their Bar/Bat Mitzvah -Holiday & birthday card making

Alcona County Commission on Aging has a few intergenerational programs that center around their mission- to promote the independence, well-being, and dignity of the aging population of Alcona County. We want to meet the needs of our community and its family. We serve our community by understand its needs and including its voice in everything we do! Person Centeredness is the core value we believe in. Their program "Grand Art" involves school kids and seniors to create art projects together and "Adopt a grandparent" involves school kids making homemade Christmas cards for seniors in the community. We also offer a Kinship program for our community.

Intergenerational Age Café is a virtual monthly event where older adults and young students are exploring thought-provoking topics each session. It is a collaborative effort, based on the World Café Method.

Through Civic Engagement/Community Service SOMA'S missions is to identify, develop, and coordinate resources, policies, programs, and services that support and empower all residents of Maplewood and South Orange to age in place as full members of the community.

Samaritan’s Feet Seniors serves and inspires hope and dignity in our aging population by providing shoe donations for seniors as the foundation to a spiritual and healthy life. It caters to both Seniors and Youth volunteers, serving each other.

Ready Generations is an intergenerational nursery site located in Liverpool, UK. Its vision is to make a difference to lifelong learning and care by becoming a leading provider of intergenerational practice and provision, and a leading edge active research and professional development organisation for intergenerational services. It operates direct childcare services to nursery children and their families, alongside shared, integrated and meaningful learning and enrichment activities for older adults and children, learning and living together. Their primary focus is Education (e.g., service learning, reading, tutoring), Arts (e.g., visual, theater, music, storytelling, oral history) Health and wellness (e.g., food access, physical activity, friendly visiting, health literacy), Transmission of cultural traditions/knowledge Grandfamilies/Kinship Families, and Shared site programming.

Partners in Rhyme (PIR) is a six-week intergenerational poetry program where older adults and teens gather in small groups to read, discuss, and write poetry. The program is held in high school English classes or community centers in the greater Boston area. Each session consults works from contemporary and classic poets on wellness and social-emotional learning themes such as gratitude, mindfulness, resilience, and personal refuges. After a guided discussion that focuses on personal responses to poems, everyone does some reflective and creative writing. There is a poetry reading at the end of the program open to the public. The goals include: PIR Goals: (1) Bring generations together using poetry to facilitate meaningful discussions and develop deep connections. In the process, reduce social isolation, shed stereotypes that each age group have for the other, and cultivate compassion in teens for older adults. (2) Expand social and emotional learning (SEL) by selecting poems to explore various SEL topics. Help participants develop empathy and communication skills as they engage with people outside their typical peer- and age-groups. (3) Provide a novel experience with poetry allowing poetry-phobic participants to develop an appreciation for the art. Keyword: Program of Merit