Intergenerational Program Database

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Intergenerational Center will bring several services under one roof, but in a space designed specifically to address the modern citizens expectations for community services and facilities. The space has been designed to be welcoming, encourage spontaneous interactions, convey a community-like feeling, create new opportunities for senior activities and interests, and to encourage a family atmosphere among its staff and visitors. The space will also include new possibilities for gardening, outdoor recreation, exercise, meditation, and therapeutic treatments. Expanding services to children is vital to the new center. Most importantly will be the genuine interactions to come between seniors, individuals with disabilities and children. Keyword: Shared Site

This holistic project emphasizes the importance of nurturing, self-sufficiency and education. It seeks to create a usable community-oriented, culturally sensitive program that improves the exercise, nutritional support, mental health and holistic care of Indigenous and Non-Native older adult and youth communities. We offer nutrition education regarding the use of indigenous foods to participants and community. We’re reclaiming ancestral foods that typify the Pre-Colombian lifestyle. We use a variety of organic, non-GMO vegetables. The intergenerational community garden includes a hoop house, raised garden beds and a greenhouse for starter plants. Hours of operation vary depending on the season. Keyword: Nutrition

Mundi Project, a community music nonprofit organization based in Salt Lake City, provides intergenerational music programming for the clients of Neighborhood House. Neighborhood House, founded in 1894, provides affordable quality daycare and support services for youth and adults of low-income families. The purpose of our intergenerational music program is to encourage youth and seniors to make music together while fostering meaningful connections and social empathy. By partnering with Neighborhood House, Mundi Project provides kidfriends and grandfriends the experience of learning music together! Keyword: Music

The Heart of Los Angeles Intergenerational Orchestra (HOLA IO) unities multigenerational musicians from multicultural backgrounds to share the joy of music making and progressing toward a common goal of artistic excellence across a diverse musical repertoire.

Family Restoration is a program that was designed to assist the "silent victims" of incarceration. Our clients share the same tragedy of having an incarcerated loved one. Many of our clients are grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. We hold monthly group meetings where we discuss the effects of the trauma they have experienced. Our clients are also given Walmart gift cards, bus passes, and gas cards monthly. They also have access to funding for minor home and car repairs, as well as many basic needs. We assist our clients on a case by case basis. Keyword: Grandfamilies

This is a curriculum designed to enhance family communication about food, increase learning about food and nutri­tion, and improve family eating habits through teamwork. This age-integrated program approach aims to provide children, parents, and grandparents from the same families with joint opportunities to learn about, discuss, and act upon the same nutrition and health information. Emphasis is placed on helping family members to process this information in the context of their family lives- in terms of the real world issues that apply to them, such as limited budgets for food, difficult work and play schedules, diverse food preferences, food allergies, etc. The ultimate goal is to help families to work together to make better food choices and adopt more healthful eating practices at home. Keyword: Nutrition

Witness Theater is an innovative intergenerational program bringing together Holocaust survivors and high school students to elicit, expose, and memorialize the moving stories of survival. Through the lens of the survivors’ stories group members explore issues of war, loss and trauma while at the same time forming deep and meaningful relationships that dissolve the barriers between generations. The year-long program culminates in a staged production shared with the public: the students portray the personal experiences of the group’s survivors, while the survivors narrate their own stories. These free public performances serve as a vehicle for the survivors’ testimonies to be heard by many and to witness the special connections made between the generations.

Through our SESSIONS Life Enrichment Program, Cadence Living® supports the totality of life with engaging activities designed to keep your loved one happy and healthy. With arts and crafts classes, music classes, lecture series and intergenerational exchanges with the local schools and youth programs, including our Intergenerational Garden Club where children and elders plant, tend and harvest together, we activate every part of the mind and body. Keyword: Shared Site

Innovative programming aimed at fostering the critical factors a young person needs to thrive, achieve and develop into caring, competent adults. Support and Resource Services including peer support groups, crisis assistance and linkage services that address immediate needs in the home and child’s life, foster resiliency and strengthen these non-traditional families. Trainings, community outreach and online/offline resources for grandparents and other adult caregivers. Advocacy at the grassroots and government levels for the rights and concerns of adult caregivers and the youth for which they are responsible.

Oasis Intergenerational Tutoring is a volunteer program that pairs older adults with children in kindergarten –third grades to work one-on-one each week as their tutors, mentors and friends. Oasis tutors use a six-step approach to literacy designed by educators that emphasizes improved reading, speaking, listening and writing.