Intergenerational Program Database

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.

Communities for All Ages is a broader community change initiative that seeks to use collaborative, intergenerational strategies to create communities that are good for growing up and growing old. Communities for All Ages in Itta Bena is facilitating programs that get the whole community involved to improve health. Programs include multigenerational physical exercise classes, a community garden, and a walking club.

Child development center built within the walls of St. John's nursing home. The center cares for nearly 120 children ages infant to 12. This offers a powerful, intergenerational experience for both the children and the elders living on campus. Keyword: Shared Site

This unique program allows interaction between preschool children and older adults.

Our program offers 2 weekly support groups and children's programs for grandparents and/or kinship caregivers raising children. We use the Circle of Parents model for our groups, provide area resource information, provide referrals to area services, advocate for our families, and utilize current data and best practices to provide the protective factors to families. Our meetings are held in Burke County, NC and are open to any family raising children through kinship care.

AGE to age is grassroots; through a guided planning process designed by the Northland Foundation, adults age 55 and older, along with youth, identify unmet local needs and devise their own solutions. Along the way, bonds of friendship form and civic engagement grows by leaps and bounds. The benefits to young people, older adults, and the broader community are far-reaching.

This is a program where a senior citizen (over 55), joins with a senior in college, to form a team with a senior in high school to develop a civic engagement club at the high school level that works to promote civic engagement of young people and civic action by all.

The Intergenerational Learning Center is an intergenerational program for children ages 6 weeks through 8 years of age. The Intergenerational Learning Center unites children with seniors from the surrounding area and from The Commons on Marice, the senior living community next door. The Intergenerational Learning Center is owned by Intergenerational Living & Healthcare, Inc.

K-12th grade youth from an after-school program Opportunity Neighborhood and older adults from Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly have partnered to participate in intergenerational programs. Youth and older adults are paired up at tables to play games, create crafts or play BINGO. Youth create crafts monthly for Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly’s Friendship and Flowers care packages program that are delivered to homebound seniors.