Intergenerational Programs
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General Contact Information:
Heather Greenwood
Extension Educator
Intergenerational Programs
310 Ka’ahumanu Ave, Bldg 214 Kahului, HI 96732
Tel: 808-244-3242 ext 226
InterGen@ctahr.hawaii.edu
Overview
The National Council on Aging defines intergenerational programs as "activities or programs that increase cooperation, interaction or exchange between any two generations. They involve the sharing of skills, knowledge, or experience between old and young."
The University of Hawaii, through its Cooperative Extension System, develops and implements intergenerational initiatives, studies their impact on participants and the community, and provides resource support for organizations interested in establishing intergenerational programs. Program efforts focus on documented community needs that can be addressed from an intergenerational perspective.
Service Delivery Strategies
Public Education
- Article Series
- Newsletters, News Releases, Etc.
- Resources (Handouts)
- Public Presentations
Demonstration Programs
- Nutrition Education
- Intergenerational Volunteerism
- Military Families Project
- Literacy Education
General Areas of Consultation and Collaboration
- Intergenerational Program Planning and Evaluation
- Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (Community Coalition and Support Group Development)
- Intergenerational Networks: Network Formation & Network Sustainability
Resources
Projects & Activities
- Powerful Tools for Caregivers in Hawaii
- Penn State Curricula & activities
- Walk in My Shoes (UofIll)
- Who Gets Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate (UofMinn)
Articles
Newsletters
- Hi‘i Na Kupuna Newsletter & Resources
- Penn State Newsletter Series
- Together (Generations United)
- Grandparents As Parents Newsletter (Texas A&M University Extension)
Factsheets
- Developing intergenerational relationships (University of Florida, IFAS Extension)
- Planning and Intergenerational Dialogue™ (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension)
Research
- Voices from the Past, Wisdom for the Present and Future: Capturing and Learning from Oral History (University of Maine Cooperative Extension),
- Intergenerational Programming in Extension: Needs Assessment as Planning Tool (Penn State University, Agricultural and Extension Education)
- Participatory Approaches to Program Development and Engaging Youth in Research: The Case of an Inter-Generational Urban Community Gardening Program (Cornell University)
- Bridging the Generation Gap Across the Digital Divide: Teens Teaching Internet Skills to Senior Citizens (University of Vermont)
- Building Bridges – An Intergenerational Program (University of Missouri, University Extension)
Links
Maui County Links
Hawaii Links
Non-Hawaii Links
- AARP Grandparenting
- Administration on Aging
- Brookdale foundation
- Center for Intergenerational Learning, Temple University
- eXtension
- Generations Together, University of Pittsburgh
- Generations United
- National Institute on Aging
- Penn State University, Intergenerational & Aging Programs
- Wisconsin Alliance for Family Caregiving