Intergenerational Program Database

Our approach to early childhood education employs an interconnected web of educational practices grounded in the innate curiosity, competence, and enthusiasm children have for learning. Accompanied by their teacher, children participate in planned and spontaneous activities throughout the campus with Bayview residents. Through these daily interactions, the children and the residents create meaningful connections between generations, which helps to foster positive attitudes and understanding towards both seniors and people with disabilities. As children interact on a daily basis with their extended family of “grandmas and the grandpas,” they bring joy and receive genuine appreciation in return. Keyword: Shared Site

CRISTA Senior Living (CSL) and Kings Schools is located on the same campus. The Shoreline campus of CRISTA Senior Living consists of close to 600 residents from independent housing to nursing care. Kings Schools consist of over 1,100 students from preschool through High School. Throughout the school year and summer students and residents are actively engaged in several scheduled and spontaneous intergenerational activities.

Children (0 – 3), together with an adult caregiver, will be a part of the intergenerational village.

The St. Francis intergenerational program provides a wonderful opportunity for children and residents to establish nurturing relationships through spontaneous interactions and a variety of planned activities at senior’s discretion. Intergenerational activities range from a hug, a song, a storytelling session, to art projects, baking projects and even walks in the neighborhood.

Josie's Learning Center serves infants, toddlers, and school age children from our community. The Learning Center provides a wide range of child care services ranging from infant day care, preschool learning, after school care, and ECEAP Preschool. The Learning Center program is integrated throughout our building with four designated classroom spaces and shared dining room, dayroom, and activity areas. The children learn important lessons from residents in assisted living, transitional care and long term care, while at the same time, enriching and energizing the life of our home. Keyword: Shared Site

Children and residents of assisted living and long-term care facility interact

The G.I.F.T. program is a partnership between students at Battlefield Park Elementary School and participants from Hanover Adult Center. The program provides an opportunity for the adult volunteers to share their talents, wisdom and experiences through mentoring students with reading and writing and storytelling. The group met once a month during the school year for an hour.

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.

The Scholar Store Project is an online learning center for human service professionals and educators. It features the practice wisdom of seasoned professionals packaged in easily downloadable 5-10 page documents. Our documents will be beneficial to two types of customers: Young adults, ages 18-28, entering the human service field, and experienced, mid-career human service professionals who are advancing into executive leadership, education and senior staff positions as Baby Boomers retire. These adults, ages 40– 55, are experienced human service executives, supervisors and educators poised to Scholar wisdom to transform policy and practice, initiate innovation and develop needed skills among new professionals. The Scholar Store links to existing knowledge banks that new professionals are often unaware of and mid-career professionals don’t have the time to locate. To further enhance the transmission of wisdom, the Scholar Store holds a creative commons license that encourages adaptation and innovation by the next generation without assuming intellectual property rights of documents.

In conjunction with our Character Education Program, we have established an Intergenerational Program with various Sunrise Assisted Living Communities in the area. The program gives our children opportunities to share what they are doing in the classroom and what inspires them through the seasons. The children and seniors get together for holidays including Halloween and the winter holidays