Intergenerational Program Database

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

USD 257 and Windsor Place have partnered to offer a pre-school at Windsor Place at Iola. Residents are involved throughout the day with the school children by going in and helping them in their learning centers, by greeting them in the mornings, by having exercise class together with them, by forming relationships that help both the kids, and themselves.

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

Asbury Park is the home of Asbury Station, an affiliation of Newton Community Child Care Center, providing an opportunity for elders and children to interact on a daily basis. It grants them an opportunity to interact with not only other elders, but also with teachers, children and their families.  Elders realize they still have the ability to nurture and educate during the intergenerational activities.  Keyword: Shared Site

Children and seniors share songs, stories, rhymes, rhythms, instrument play and movement in a supportive, creative setting. Participants in Music Sparks' "Sharing Songs" program include children between the ages of 18 months and age 5, and older adults residing in the assisted living facility that hosts the event. Music Sparks' "Families in Rhythm (FIR)"program welcomes the entire family (3 years and older) to join the seniors of Sterling House Senior Living for rhymes, singing, drumming and moving.

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.