Intergenerational Program Database

GlamourGals' mission is to inspire and organize teen volunteers to provide ongoing companionship and complimentary beauty makeovers to women living in senior homes. GlamourGals is working to build a movement of young leaders who provide a solution to elder loneliness. The organization’s vision is to end elder loneliness through a volunteer program that engages teens in critical skill-building experiences and promotes their development as leaders. Manicures and makeovers are just half the story. GlamourGals’ teen volunteers are organized locally into chapters, which consist of approximately ten members led by teen leaders. Chapter leaders recruit, train and organize their volunteers with the support of GlamourGals National. Chapters are established in high schools and colleges as independent school clubs or as permanent service activities within existing service clubs. Chapters commit to visiting their local senior home to provide GlamourGals’ signature manicures and makeovers. In addition to makeovers, chapter leaders plan meetings, recruitment, training, and fundraising events, which involve their school and the greater community. GlamourGals National goes beyond just organizing volunteer chapters that provide ongoing visits to local senior homes. They provide training and mentorship for the teens in the program through a monthly curriculum, as well as incentives and scholarship rewards.

You can change a life by providing the individual attention that helps children build confidence and success. Opportunities are available in the Churchville-Chili and Greece school districts and 18 other U. S. cities. OASIS volunteer tutors are paired with children in grades K-3 who would benefit from a one-on-one mentoring relationship. Tutors are trained to work with kids using a proven approach to literacy that emphasizes reading, talking and writing. They meet with their students at least once a week throughout the school year, providing a caring, supportive environment where reading and language activities, keyed to the child’s interests, spark curiosity and learning.

You can change a life by providing the individual attention that helps children build confidence and success. Opportunities are available in the Syracuse City and Liverpool school districts and 18 other U. S. cities. OASIS volunteer tutors are paired with children in grades K-3 who would benefit from a one-on-one mentoring relationship. Tutors are trained to work with kids using a proven approach to literacy that emphasizes reading, talking and writing. They meet with their students at least once a week throughout the school year, providing a caring, supportive environment where reading and language activities, keyed to the child’s interests, spark curiosity and learning.

You can change a life by providing the individual attention that helps children build confidence and success. Opportunities are available in the Albany Public Schools and 1 other U. S. cities. OASIS volunteer tutors are paired with children in grades K-3 who would benefit from a one-on-one mentoring relationship. Tutors are trained to work with kids using a proven approach to literacy that emphasizes reading, talking and writing. They meet with their students at least once a week throughout the school year, providing a caring, supportive environment where reading and language activities, keyed to the child’s interests, spark curiosity and learning.

Residents from the Ivy Lodge Assisted Living (formerly The Family Lodge) join the teacher and families each week for class, making our essential class even more of a community experience. The residents love being with the families and observing the children and the families offer their children a true musical exchange between people of all ages.

History Alive! is Elders Share the Arts intergenerational multi-disciplinary arts residency that works that with youth (12 & up), in and out of school, who may be cut off their own extended family, culture, and heritage; isolated elders who have limited opportunities for creative expression and social engagement; and inner city communities that are often underserved by the mainstream arts network. It employs our Living History Arts methodology – a unique synthesis of oral history, reminiscence and the creative arts.

The youth development & leadership team has held three annual intergenerational programs. This is a student led and created service project involving elementary, middle, and high schoolers putting on an event for senior citizens in the area. This year the project involved popular television game shows through the decades. The goal of the programs is to create vital connections between both generations, to change perceptions and create a positive outlook toward each other. There was participation from nearly 100 students.

The goals of the Isabella Caring Partners Program are: (1) to increase the service provided by Isabella staff by employing high school students trained to deliver non-intimate assistance, (2) to promote intergenerational relationships, (3) to give students experience in the workplace and provide them with stipends and (4) to facilitate students’ exploration of health careers (Caring Partner Program, n.d.). Career Exploration in Aging brings students to skilled nursing floors where they visit and assist residents one-to-one and assist with group activities under the supervision of a charge nurse. Youth participate in workshops related to geriatric health care and issues of aging and health careers. It is an after-school paid working experience (Youth opportunities, n.d.). For 9 months on 2 and 3 day per week schedules, students spend time with elders. The Ratio is 1 to 2 students per 40 residents on a nursing unit.

Kenmore East High School National Honor Society hosts the Tonawanda Senior Citizens Center for an annual intergenerational dance. Students and seniors take a dancing break while students serve homemade deserts and listen to stories from another generation.

United Hebrew of New Rochelle (UH) residents team up with visiting local students for an afternoon of Olympics-style events at UH's annual Intergenerational Olympics. More than 50 residents and 30 students participated in the event, coordinated by United Hebrew, the New Rochelle Office for Aging and the Westchester County Southeast Regional Livable Communities Connection. Residents from Willow Towers Assisted Living, part of the United Hebrew family of services, also participated. Students from Pelham High School, New Rochelle High School Key Club and Academic Pathways dedicated a day of their school spring break to community service by interacting with residents and escorting them to their activities. Bowling competitions, wheelchair races, card games and relays took place at stations around the first floor of United Hebrew's new Skalet Pavilion.