Intergenerational Program Database

Partnered with Tompkins County Office for the Aging, Ithaca College and Cornell University Project Generations students visit with an older adult in the Ithaca, NY area for about an hour each week. Volunteers help to fulfill seniors’ needs through providing companionship, mental stimulation, and social support. Project Generations aims to reduce the social stigma and recognize older adults’ value as community members with rich life experiences to share. The mission of the organization is to enrich older adults’ and volunteers’ lives by bridging the gap between the generations.

Grandparents and grandchildren participate in a wide range of activities designed to build vital connections between people and nature.  Expect music, canoeing, swimming, hiking, natural crafts, singing, campfires, stars, balsam-scented air and lots of laughter.

CATCH brings children and adults age 50+ together to learn good eating and physical activity habits for a lifetime. The program combats obesity by engaging adults age 50+ as mentors to teach healthy lifelong habits to kids in grades K-5. Adults in the program benefit in several ways. Research shows that volunteers have lower rates of depression and mortality and greater functional ability than those who do not volunteer. As they promote healthy habits for kids and for themselves, they also experience the rewards of meaningful community service.

This annual event brings together people of all ages to fish. The event partners include the Monroe County Fishing Advisory Board, the Reidman Foundation, the Monroe County Parks Department, the Monroe County Office for the Aging, and the NYS DEC.

The Pearls of Wisdom are a touring ensemble of elder storytellers. In richly told presentations, the Pearls present stories that illuminate their individual pasts and, in turn, our collective histories.

To honor the memory of the 12 million victims of this horrific genocide, JCY-Westchester Community Partners, Lincoln Park Jewish Center, Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center Speakers Bureau and the Yonkers Public Schools offer an annual Holocaust Remembrance Program. It is a 5 day program designed for Yonkers public school students.

ReServe's READY program helps low-income students apply to college by training and deploying college mentors, professionals who are 55+. College mentors reach over 2500 students in over 50 schools.

StoryCorps collects the stories of individuals from diverse backgrounds as they are told to important individuals in the storyteller's life, with the intent of sharing them with future generations. Frequently, this involves storytelling between relatives or friends of disparate age. In particular, the Memory Loss Initiative, which focuses on telling the stories of those who are experiencing memory loss, by its very nature often has older adults relating stories to younger people.

We are bringing Music Together to the Lenox Hill Senior Center, where children and their families will join together with the ‘mature’ population in our community for occasional sing-alongs. Along with you and your child, elderly participants will observe and join in throughout the class.

The Intergenerational Media Literacy Program supports youth in broadening their skills and understanding of the role of digital technology in a social and cultural context, and will engage seniors as collaborators in enhancing the learning and creative experience of the young people—even as they learn important technology skills themselves. This program provides an immersion into media portrayals of older adults, with a focus on exploring ageist messages and their impact on seniors, and will offer youth participants a transformational opportunity to bridge the generational divide while advancing their digital and social learning. Through the intergenerational component, the program enables youth to gain an appreciation of the impact of media bias on other groups and expand their skills to include cross-generational communication, social impact analysis, and collaborative media production.