Intergenerational Program Database

At Marilyn’s Lifelong Educational Center (MLLEC) children learn through hands on explorations, daily interactions and guidance within a natural family-like environment. Planned hands on explorations are implemented by our teachers and designed to help children learn life skills and gain an academic advantage. Interactions are either planned or qualify as friendly visits with our elder friends throughout Birchaven Retirement Village.

Community Center is open to all ages and offers various activities.

Friends Preschool Program, run by Greene County Educational Service Center is on the site of Friends Care Community independent/assisted living center

The Girard Multi-Generational Center promotes interaction between generations through education, health, fitness, and socialization for the purpose of preserving and enhancing our community. the Multi-Generational Center has become an accessible, safe, friendly place where people of all ages come to receive a wide variety of services. Our goal is to keep people active, engaged, and developing paths for lifelong learning, health and fitness. Our unique inter-generational programs bridge the gap between seniors and youth, promoting understanding and respect. Keyword: Shared Site

Six Winners, an intergenerational mentoring program focused on Black and Latino males ages 13 to 24. Trained mentors teach young men specific skills to help them develop personal goals and enhance their self-sufficiency by working with them on strategies to achieve those goals. The program includes counseling, social skills development, preparation for the workplace, and understanding of fatherhood responsibilities.

Mind the Gap is a free workshop in which half of the participants are elders ages 60 and up and half are teenagers ages 14-19. Over the course of 10 sessions, participants work in pairs to interview each other and write plays inspired by their partner’s personal stories. Each workshop culminates with an invited presentation in which participants’ work is read aloud by professional actors.

The "Mount Kisco Child Day Care Center" and "My Second Home," a senior daycare center bring together the generations for planting and maintaining a fresh vegetable garden on site which promotes proper elderly and childhood nutrition

Seniors volunteer to read to preschool children at “Book Worms” Program

A non-profit dedicated to focus on building an intergenerational movement bringing kids and elders living with dementia together around music.

The Intergenerational Work Study Program (IWSP) is a collaborative initiative of the NYC Department for the Aging (DFTA) and the NYC Department of Education. DFTA coordinates the IWSP, working with appropriate personnel at City high schools and with community organizations to provide high school youth with work experience delivering needed services to elders in senior centers, nursing homes and home care settings. The program increases intergenerational understanding and interaction, enriching the lives of participants in both generations. Designed in l987 as a high school drop-out prevention program, IWSP now engages academically-achieving college-bound and developmentally challenged students as well as academically at-risk youth.