Intergenerational Program Database

The Friendship Center is an intergenerational child care facility that  incorporates senior citizens from Heath Village, the adjacent retirement community, into its child care programs. Senior volunteers assist the center's professional staff by teaching Bible stories and foreign languages, conducting nature walks, providing musical accompaniment, reading stories, and supervising craft and woodworking projects. Heath Village residents join with the children for special events and holiday celebrations, and pair off with them to be pen pals. Most important, the Heath Village residents who share in the Friendship Center's activities bring their maturity and love of children to help create a warm, caring Christian environment, giving children the feel of a large extended family. Keyword: Shared Site

This two-night, three day camp will be for rising 2nd–8thgraders and their special grandparent(s). Some of the special activities include fun games for all ages, family projects, easy to moderate hiking, fishing, canoeing, and nightly campfire fun!

OLLI participants volunteer in three local schools as tutors, mentors, class assistants and special events helpers.

We are a 5-star rated child care center that provides high quality child care for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. We are located adjacent to Cross Road Retirement Community, and we are fortunate to have many interactions with the residents there. We have music classes twice monthly with the children and residents, as well as other activities going on each week at their campus. We also have residents that visit our center and volunteer or participate in activities with us here.

Support Group for kinship caregivers. Childcare supervision provided for children under age 13 as needed during the support group meeting. The meeting is held the second Monday of the month from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. @ DSS located at 3205 Freedom Drive, Charlotte, NC 28208. A lite meal provided 5:30. Special events, celebrations held periodically. Contact Lavern Weathers @980-314-7076 for more information.

UNC Asheville student "skip-a-generation" mentoring program

The annual Intergenerational Rock Band brings together Drury music therapy students along with older adults to preform a wide range of songs. Older adults come from The Gardens retirement facility and Drury's Institute of Mature Learners.

Do you want kids in your community to eat better and exercise more? Consider volunteering for OASIS CATCH Healthy Habits, an after-school program that connects adults age 50+ with kids in grades K-5 to learn about good eating habits and play active games. The program combats obesity by engaging adults age 50+ as mentors to teach healthy lifelong habits to kids in grades K-5. It’s a fun way to be healthy yourself while you help kids learn good eating and physical activity habits for a lifetime. No experience needed, just your enthusiasm and interest in helping kids. Training and materials are provided.

This program was established in 1978 between our city and the city of Higashimurayama. The mission is to promote friendship and understanding of cultures through citizen diplomacy. Students will come to put on a musical presentation and visit with our seniors at the Palmer Center.

OASIS Tutoring is an in-school, curriculum-based literacy program that pairs older adult volunteer tutors with children in grades K-3 who have been identified as academically at risk because they are reading below grade level. New tutors complete 12 hours of training in the OASIS approach to literacy. Children are selected by their teachers and are paired with OASIS tutors. The tutor training and OASIS session plans are designed to align with state learning standards. Tutors work one-on-one with students, making a commitment to work with a child at least once a week for a full school year. The tutor reads quality literature with the child, writes the child’s thoughts in an OASIS journal, the student reads his/her journal entries, and they practice skill-building activities such as letter or word recognition and vocabulary exploration. OASIS tutors offer the one-on-one support that classroom teachers would like to provide to individual students – but they don’t have time for during the school day. In this literacy-based mentoring program, one-on-one OASIS tutoring sessions with a caring older adult also build confidence and self-esteem, forming the foundation for a better attitude toward reading and language arts and improved academic performance.