Intergenerational Program Database

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.

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.

MentorCHIP offers site-based mentoring at partnering organizations with an academic and asset-building focus to build the confidence and resilience of children ages 6–16 whose parents are incarcerated. The program’s goal is to significantly improve the cognitive, social, and lifelong learning of children who are affected by incarceration.

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.

The SMART program, created in 196, is the largest intergenerational literacy program in Westchester County, New York. SMART pairs older adult volunteer mentors with student reading below grade level in one-hour a week, one-on-one mentoring/tutoring relationships. Currently SMART operates in twenty nine elementary, middle, and high schools. Every week over 210 older adult mentors help over 475 children in grades K through 12 to improve their basic skills in reading, writing, and math. SMART's success led to the launch of Reading Buddies After School (RBAS) in 2007. RBAS adopts the SMART model to address student's needs for homework assistance. Currently, RBAS is offered in eleven schools in Westchester County.

This after school model brings both older adults and college and high school aged mentors into the elementary schools to help with completing homework and working on literacy and basic math skills.

Generations is a leading provider of licensed, nationally accredited child care in the Rochester New York (NY) area. They offer uniquely intergenerational programming teams with social adult daycare linking children and seniors. Once a month our children at the childcare center visit an area senior facility to spend time with the seniors.

Generations is a leading provider of licensed, nationally accredited child care in the Rochester New York (NY) area. They offer uniquely intergenerational programming teams with social adult daycare linking children and seniors. The children at Generations' Webster Child Care go on monthly field trips to visit a local retirement home.