Intergenerational Program Database

Works with students on social action issues tying them back to their community. Recently began to include the older adult population through several projects, including the Bio Legacy Project, The Garden Legacy Project, Generation Connection, and The Alzheimer's Music Project(AMP).

High school service learning students and older adults work together in teams deliver meals to homebound older adults

Building Bridges is a community-based intergenerational program to help bring generations together for meaningful interactions and experiences. Education, friendship, and caring are major components. The program evaluation results showed that Building Bridges not only helped young generations practice character traits but also have more positive perceptions of growing old.

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.

Student volunteers from Jefferson High School teach seniors basic computer skills.

Intergenerational digital literacy training-- Two Harbors high school assisted seniors in the community with their technology questions

Elders from the community share their lives with elementary students who then write song about their lives with the help of a regional songwriter. In the end at the Celebrations, students honor their chosen elders by reading a first-person narrative about their life and then performing the song they helped to write. The celebrations are open to the community.

Intergenerational Living and Health Care is a nonprofit organization pioneering programs for children and seniors. Intergenerational Living and Health Care sponsors educational centers and programs for youth, housing and services for seniors and intergenerational programs that link children and older adults.

Grandparents University, a program of Winona State University's Retiree Center, brings together grandparents and grandchildren aged 8 to 14 for a two-day dynamic intergenerational learning experience

Launched in 2008, the Northland Foundation’s AGE to age: bringing generations together is designed to strengthen relationships among all ages and offer older adults and young people with opportunities and resources to work together to benefit their communities. To date, the program has been implemented in 13 rural communities including three Indian Reservations. In the fall of 2016, the program is being expanded to three more sites. Each site forms and implements its own action plan that joins the generations in local projects to improve health and well-being across the generations. In 2012, a new component of AGE to age was added to provide summer internships to undergraduate students to enhance their leadership skills, increase their knowledge of intergenerational community-building, and infuse fresh ideas in participating sites. AGE to age: bringing generations together was re-designated as a Program of Distinction by Generations United in 2015.