Intergenerational Program Database

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.

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.

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.