Great reports about intergenerational programs across the country!
Santa Rosa, CA: “Extraordinary moments happened one after the next at a Santa Rosa retirement community when 32 middle-school art students presented the portraits they’d drawn of 32 of the residents. Nearly all of the models, all residents of Friends House in Rincon Valley, posed for a photo with their portrait and the Rincon Valley Middle School Art II student who’d sketched it.” Click here to read more.
Tualatin, OR: “Tualatin Public Library has received a $39,853 federal grant for a project that Manager Abigail Elder hopes will create a positive link between older and younger generations in the community. Funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), the grant is called ‘Natural Resources: Mining the knowledge and talents of older adults’ and aims to utilize skills of retired citizens in the community to teach young people.” Click here to read more.
New York, NY: “Thirty senior citizens squeezed around a long table designed for about 20, the crush made tighter by canes, walkers and wheelchairs…They wanted to begin the task of catching up with a technical world whose rapid-fire evolution has left much of America’s oldest generation isolated from its children, grandchildren and tech-savvy friends…Their teachers were students from New York’s Pace University who earn credits participating in a program to bridge the gap created by the computer age.” Click here to read more.
