Intergenerational Program Database

The Georgetown Independent School District (GISD) leads many intergenerational program efforts. These include: recruiting senior mentors and tutors into the schools; co-sponsoring an annual senior spelling bee; arranging joint performances with the high school and Sun City choirs; inviting veterans to be recognized at school Veterans Day ceremonies; and sending school buses to shuttle the Sun City “Booster Club” to high school ball games.

On this day, many youth groups from various congregations get together to make minor repairs, do yard work and paint seniors' homes. They may also plant flowers or do gardening crafts or cleaning. To help those in assisted living facilities, teens go and play games, read, and do light housekeeping. A barbecue is held at the end of the day for seniors in the area. http://suite101.com/article/interfaith-hosts-sos-serving-our-seniors-day-a95691

The Air Force Village Employee Day Care Center is located in Freedom House, our center for memory-care patients. The children and the seniors love to play together. It makes the day more meaningful for both.

During our bear building events youth and seniors make stuffed animals that are then donated to children in the local children's shelters. We make several hundred bears each year and most bear building events are held in assisted and skilled nursing facilities.

You can change a life by providing the individual attention that helps children build confidence and success. Opportunities are available in 4 San Antonio area school districts and 18 other U. S. cities. OASIS volunteer tutors are paired with children in grades K-3 who would benefit from a one-on-one mentoring relationship. Tutors are trained to work with kids using a proven approach to literacy that emphasizes reading, talking and writing. They meet with their students at least once a week throughout the school year, providing a caring, supportive environment where reading and language activities, keyed to the child’s interests, spark curiosity and learning.

An on-site child care center where intergenerational programs are held that create stimulating and transforming moments happen between older residents with dementia and young children. Keyword: Shared Site

Utah YOUth Connect is a service organization for students to visit with local senior citizens. They visit several senior citizen centers.

Our goal is to maximize each child’s learning potential by stimulating intellectual growth, building self-confidence and developing social skills they’ll carry into adulthood. Our activities encourage language development, creative expression, motor coordination and social and emotional skills. The students engage in intergeneratinal activities. Keyword: Shared Site

The Mission of Generations Crossing is to provide high quality, innovative adult and child day care for our ethnically and economically diverse community. We serve a population from ages six weeks to 99 years old currently. Keyword: Shared Site

Neighbors Growing Together is an Intergenerational Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Adult Day Center. We conduct three group activities each week between three older adults from the Adult Day Center and three young children from the Child Center in an IG studio, built between the two centers. Activities could range from arts and crafts around a table to an activity on the smart board about languages, countries, pictures, etc. The smart board was recently put in to enhance engagement and increase opportunities for activities. Neighbors Growing Together also has a designated camera used to document each activity. Pictures are kept in the computer or hung up in our Intergenerational Studio to enhance reflection, self-confidence, and reminiscence for the participants and used in a newsletter which also influences reminiscence.