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

an inter-generational dance performance created by Christina Soriano, 7:30 p.m. Brendle Recital Hall, Wake Forest University.

The Villa Maria Childcare Center is located at Villa Maria, a long term care facility. The children have much contact with the residents of the home; sending or hand-delivering cards for the hospitalized residents or on birthdays, visiting one-to-one in resident’s rooms, and participating in group activities together. The residents become wonderful adoptive grandparents for the children and form special relationships that are beneficial to both the elderly and the children. Keyword: Shared Site

Hillcrest offers an array of services for aging adults. Hillcrest has several intergenerational volunteer opportunities. Over the summer they have a volunteer program in which youth ages 9-17 visit with residents. They provide one on one companionship and do activities together. During the school year, day care centers come to visit with the residents.

The NSEA-Retired Intergenerational Mentoring Project brings together NSEA-Retired members and student NSEA members in their junior year in teacher education. NSEA-Retired members act as mentors to the student members from their junior year through their senior student teaching semester and their first year as professional teachers.