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ERIC Number: ED379413
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 121
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-87868-566-9
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Available Date: N/A
Young and Old Serving Together: Meeting Community Needs through Intergenerational Partnerships.
Scannell, Tess; Roberts, Angela
This document is designed to enlarge and expand the intergenerational community service mission and serve as a practical tool to anyone (including policymakers and program planning professionals) who wishes to learn about or start intergenerational community service programs (ICSPs). The following ICSP topics are discussed: rationale (building citizenship and understanding in a diverse society); best practices (guiding principles, components, myths); planning (assessing needs, engaging community partners, setting goals/objectives, selecting projects defining roles, developing a resource and funding base); implementing (recruitment, participant orientation and training, sample activities); sustaining (support, community visibility, dissemination, program evaluation); the state of the art (Delta Service Corps and Partners for Tomorrow); and tips from three ICSP experts (Billie Ann Myers, John Briscoe, and Lynn Thornton). Appended are the following: 97-item annotated bibliography; annotated list of 11 selected ICSP specialists; contact information for 17 featured programs; information about national/community service grants, the National Senior Volunteer Corps, Title V of the Older Americans Act, and selected multicultural organizations and organizations serving persons with disabilities; and exercise for building intergenerational understanding. (MN)
Generations United, c/o CWLA, 440 First Street, N.W., Suite 310, Washington, DC 20001 ($15).
Publication Type: Reports - General
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Generations United, Washington, DC.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A