Intergenerational Program Database

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.

The USD 445 School Board and Windsor Place partnered to get an all-day kindergarten classroom built right in the middle of Windsor Place. The elders each day gather around in anticipation of the children’s arrival. The children arrive with smiles, eager to expand their education Keyword: Shared Site

The building that houses the child care center is connected to the Assisted Living area of Schowalter Villa through a corridor named “Main Street. ” Each week every class takes a small group of their children to do activities with their particular residents at the Villa. We have eight seniors who come on a regular basis each week and help in the classroom as teacher aides. Many special events are planned to include children, college students from Hesston College and residents from Schowalter Villa. On occasion residents are brought to the children’s rooms to visit and children visit residents in their rooms. Keyword: Shared Site

The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics recently started an intergenerational mentoring program with members of the Friends of the Dole Institute and the Dole Institute’s Student Advisory Board. The Friends of the Dole Institute is an annual giving program made up mostly of retirees in the Lawrence, Kansas community. Members of the Student Advisory Board are undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Kansas interested in public service and civic engagement. Mentors and mentees were matched based on their interests and met at three facilitated meetings throughout the semester, as well as on their own.

Children from a local Boys & Girls Club visit with residents at Mennonite Friendship Communities to garden together.

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.

Called Project C.A.R.E., this student-run senior center is for adults 55 and older in the community. The program was founded in 1995 to provide local older adults with a place to meet. Currently, older adults visit the high school throughout the school year (3 days a week) for crafts, lunch with the students, movies, games, and camaraderie. The intergenerational program has been a success with teens and elders. Keyword: Shared Site

An activity project that reaches across generations and teaches young people about growing older and the normal physical changes that occur with age. It also teaches those who come in contact with older citizens how to effectively communicate with them and serve their needs. U. if IL extension project 4-H awareness