This curriculum handbook is the first to offer a comprehensive professional day care training plan for older workers. The program targets potential child care workers over 55, in hopes of finding a progressive solution to the growing problem of locating accessible, affordable child care in the United States. The program offers older adults…

Recognizing the increasing demand for older adults to work as child care employees, this manual presents the Generations Together model for training older adults at the community college level to work in child care settings. The manual describes the steps necessary to implement a community-college-based, older-adult child care employment training…

This guide was developed during a demonstration project conducted in three diverse, multiethnic Western Pennsylvania communities to use older adult tutors as mentors to improve Head Start parents' literacy skills and ability to develop their children's literacy. The guide is intended to facilitate tutors' learning about family literacy and to give…