Intergenerational Program Database

Our students have the unique opportunity to participate in an intergenerational program with our senior neighbors at Sunrise Assisted Living and The Virginian Retirement Community. Students of all ages, infants through 6th Graders, have a chance to learn about life experiences from their senior companions. Weekly activities at the homes are both academic and fun. Some of these include: Storytelling, Baking, Sewing, Discussing world governments, and Studying embassies. Keyword: Shared Site

When a loved one goes missing, minutes matter! The Volunteer Center of the Virginia Peninsula, in partnership with SafeAssured ID, local businesses, DAV Chapters and other Civic Organizations, provides families the power to immediately deliver ready-to-broadcast identification kits to the media and law enforcement. Youth volunteers ages 10 - 25 assist with preparation of the kits: data entry, registration, operating cameras, and assisting those receiving IDs. Information captured for dissemination includes: Streaming video showing movement and gait with both close and direct shots that are television ready; Linked audio file providing the person’s voice inflection and accent; General personal information; Digital photograph. IDs are provided free of charge to veterans and vulnerable seniors through our local sponsors.

During the months of June and July, center holds annual Camp Pickett that brings children to center

Friends for Life's Meyer Family Intergenerational Center has an outdoor area that has a playground for children, rocking chairs on a porch for seniors, and wheel chair swings. We have a library with large print books for seniors to read to children and children's books for children to read to seniors. We have a computer lab where children can teach seniors about computers, and we are creating a music room where older adults and children can learn and create music together.

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.

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

Students from Southwestern University bring baskets of produce to seniors enjoying a free lunch at the Mafella Hilliard Neighborhood Center. About 80% of the produce from the garden goes to seniors.

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.

Art classes are taught in assisted living facilities to children and seniors. Each class is taught by a professional art instructor and lasts about 90 minutes. Topics range from crafts to fine arts. Average youth age is 9 and senior age is 90!

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.