Intergenerational Program Database

Jumpstart Community Corps creates meaningful intergenerational relationships between preschool-age children and older adults living in low-income communities. These relationships help children gain essential language, literacy, and social emotional skills, while simultaneously transforming the lives of the older adult volunteers who work with them. Jumpstart Community Corps facilitates the creation of these relationships by recruiting and training teams of six to ten older adult volunteers, called Corps members, to deliver Jumpstart’s research-based language and literacy curriculum to children in pre-kindergarten classrooms throughout a school year.

K-State Grandparents University is an opportunity for grandparents and grandchildren (ages 8-12) to come together for a three-day educational experience while spending time together on the KSU campus. K-State GPU gives multi-generational families the opportunity to experience college life together during the summer.

Residents volunteer to be matched with a student from an immigrant family, and the group meets monthly throughout the school year. Many of the children don’t have the opportunity to see their grandparents frequently, and this program gives them an opportunity to interact with a caring older adult. The resident volunteers also help the children learn more about Midwestern culture as they share how times have changed since they were kids. The year ends with a joint quilting project with the students making quilt squares depicting what they’d like to do when they grow up.

The Foster Grandparent Program provides mentoring opportunities to children and youth to help them develop the academic and life skills that are critical to thier development and future successes.

A shared site with various older adult living services (assisted and independent) and a pediatric daycare. Keyword: Shared Sites

In the early 1990’s Berea celebrated its age diversity with the creation of the Intergenerational Center. The center, divided into the Berea Senior Citizen Center and Berea Head Start, serves the purpose for which the center was intended; to bring together youth and senior citizens, in order for them to learn from each other. Keyword: Shared Site

The senor citizens of Hazard and Perry County with the Eastern Kentucky Veterans Center, Compansionate Hearts Adult Day and the Hazard Healt and Rehabilitation Center join with Hazard High School Juniors and Seniors for prom.

CATCH brings children and adults age 50+ together to learn good eating and physical activity habits for a lifetime. The program combats obesity by engaging adults age 50+ as mentors to teach healthy lifelong habits to kids in grades K-5. Adults in the program benefit in several ways. Research shows that volunteers have lower rates of depression and mortality and greater functional ability than those who do not volunteer. As they promote healthy habits for kids and for themselves, they also experience the rewards of meaningful community service.

Our CCRC partners with the local Park District to provide an inter-generational summer camp.

Our Generations' GrandFriends Program is an intergenerational program designed to facilitate activities that increase cooperation and interaction between two generations through the sharing of skills, knowledge, experience and just plain ole' fun.