News for Advocates of Children, Youth and Older Adults from Generations United |
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Congratulations to Puerto Rico's ARECMA, Winner of the 2020 Eisner Prize |
On October 7, 2020, The Eisner Foundation awarded The Recreational and Educational Community Association of Barrio Mariana de Humacao, or ARECMA, the Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence. ARECMA provides services and facilities that bring residents of all ages together. Their 38-year legacy shows how intergenerational solutions create connected, resilient communities that can mitigate the effects of natural disasters and other challenges – including Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the current Covid-19 pandemic.
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Announcing Generations United 2021 Virtual Global Intergenerational Conference |
Generations United is thrilled to announce our 2021 Virtual Global Intergenerational Conference, taking place next summer! Please keep an eye on Generations This Week for details, including dates, registration, and the call for sessions.
If you’d like to join the conference planning committee, email us at conference@gu.org. |
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Join Us for a Virtual Briefing on Shared Sites & COVID-19 |
Join Generations United and The Eisner Foundation on Oct. 20 at 1pm Eastern Time for a virtual briefing about the value of intergenerational shared sites in serving young and old throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The program will include an overview of what we're learning from shared sites during the COVID-19 pandemic and ways that policy can support the development of shared site programs. Learn more and register. |
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StoryCorps Grandfamilies Stories - Anntesha and Ali |
Over the summer, Generations United, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recorded stories of grandfamilies' hardships and hope during the COVID-19 pandemic with StoryCorps. Four of these stories featuring GRAND Voices have been edited and are now posted on our website. This week, Anntesha Chesterton tells her colleague at Foster Kinship, Alison Caliendo, about the joys and challenges of being a grandfamily caregiver, and the resources that have helped her along the way. Listen to Anntesha's Story
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This segment was produced by StoryCorps, a non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
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A Huge Thanks to Our Members and Supporters |
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CBS 2 News in New York recently featured Francisca Fadairo, a remarkable high school senior in the New Jewish Home Geriatrics Career Development Program (GCD). This groundbreaking workforce program - and Generations United Program of Distinction - has provided underserved high school students with allied health care certifications, college preparation and invaluable experience caring for older adults for over 15 years. Check out the video to see how motivated GCD high school students joined the ranks of frontline health care heroes. Watch the Story. |
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Got something cool you tried that was successful? Why not tweet your cool intergenerational ideas to #cooligideas. You can also post them to our Intergenerational Connections Facebook Group. We want to highlight innovative age-optimized programs and practices through our blog, social media and weekly e-newsletter! Share the inspiration.
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On October 6, the MacArthur Foundation included Jacqueline Woodson as one of the 2020 MacArthur Fellows. Woodson’s nearly 30 publications span picture books, YA novels, and poetry and often tell intergenerational stories about Black children, teenagers, and families that evoke the hopefulness and power of human connection even as they tackle difficult issues such as slavery, incarceration, social class, and sexual identity. In her picture book, Show Way, Woodson tells the story of a quilt passed down through generations from enslaved ancestors who stitched the way to freedom on the fabric. In Brown Girl Dreaming, she recounts her childhood in South Carolina and Brooklyn, conjuring vivid images of her grandparents and family life against the background of the Civil Rights Movement. Woodson’s works reflect the complexity and diversity of the world we live in while stretching young readers’ intellectual abilities and capacity for empathy. Learn more.
Culture United highlights films, books, music and TV shows with an intergenerational theme. Do you have any suggestions? Share them with us, and we'll share in the weeks and months to come. We welcome responses or reactions. We'll possibly feature them on our blog. See disclaimer.
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Think Intergenerational - Funding Opportunities |
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America Walks: Community Change Grant. The program awards grants of up to $1,500 to provide support to the growing network of advocates, organizations, and agencies using innovative, engaging, and inclusive programs and projects to create change at the community level. Projects should create healthy, active, and engaged communities that support walking as transportation, health, and recreation. Of particular interest are projects that center the concerns of minority residents, reach across the demographics of communities to build coalitions, or create unique civic partnerships with new perspectives. The application deadline is November 9, 2020. Learn more.
RRF Foundation for Aging. RRF Foundation for Aging (formerly The Retirement Research Foundation) is accepting proposal applications for its next grant cycle. During the last 42 years, RRF has awarded nearly 5,000 grants worth almost $250 million—all dedicated to improving the quality of life of older people. RRF recently completed a strategic planning process that sharpened this commitment and focused its grantmaking on four priority areas: Caregiving; Economic Security in Later Life; Housing; Social and Intergenerational Connectedness. LOIs should be submitted online by Dec. 1, 2020 for the February 1st proposal deadline. Learn more.
- Family Connection Grants: Building the Evidence for Kinship Navigator Programs : HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CF-1903
- Improving Child Welfare Through Kinship Supports and Foster Care as Service to Families: HHS-2021-ACF-ACYF-CW-1921
Innovations in Alzheimer's Caregiving Awards. Now in its 13th year, the awards spotlight innovative programs in three categories: Creative Expression, Diverse/Multicultural Communities, and Public Policy. One award of $20,000 will be given in each category. Applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. Pacific Time on October 30, 2020. Learn more.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Grant Program seeks to assist residents of public and Indian housing in making progress towards economic and housing self-sufficiency by removing the educational, professional, and health barriers they face. This program provides support to hire a Service Coordinator who assesses the needs of housing residents and links them to training and supportive services that will enable participants to move along the self-sufficiency continuum. In the case of elderly residents or residents with disabilities, the Service Coordinator links them to supportive services which enable them to age or remain in place. Deadline: Nov. 19, 2020. Learn more.
Housing for Everyone Grant Competition. The TD Charitable Foundation's 2020 Housing for Everyone grant competition focuses on "direct relief and supportive services for renters affected by COVID-19." Support will be provided for programs that provide access to safe, clean, physically accessible affordable rental housing units and needed wraparound services for families, individuals, older adults, new Americans, veterans, the disabled, women, and youth. Deadline: Oct. 30, 2020. Learn more.
Annie's Grants for Gardens. Support is provided to K-12 school gardens nationwide to help children start thinking more holistically about their food, their communities, and the planet. Grants---$3,000 for new applicants and $5,000 for returning applicants---may be used to purchase any supplies for an edible garden, such as plants, seeds, raised beds, fencing, wheelbarrows, greenhouses, and drip irrigation systems. Deadline: Nov. 2, 2020. Learn more.
If you have - or know of - any intergenerational funding opportunities, please send them to gu@gu.org.
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Think Intergenerational - Great Resources |
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Generations United's 2020 State of Grandfamilies Report - Facing a Pandemic: Grandfamilies Living Together During COVID-19 and Thriving Beyond. Grandfamily caregivers are the first line of defense for children during the pandemic, having stepped in when parents cannot raise them for many reasons, including cases where children's parents have died from the COVID-19 virus. Download the full report, watch Senator Sherrod Brown's acceptance speech, and listen to stories of grandfamilies impacted by COVID-19. Learn more.
Staying Healthy Across Generations: Vaccines are Essential for All Ages. Generations United's new infographic illustrates that vaccines aren't just for kids-they protect all generations- especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Staying up to date on vaccines for the flu, pneumonia and whooping cough are important to protect both older adults and children. Soon a vaccine for COVID-19 will also be critical for both age groups. Check it out.
Intergenerational Programs and Physical Distancing. This guide by Generations United includes ideas and solutions on how intergenerational professionals can adapt programs and activities and create new intergenerational connections during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more.
Grandfamilies COVID-19 Fact Sheets in English and Spanish. These fact sheets from Generations United provide information for grandfamilies to stay healthy, informed and connected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more.
Interactive Toolkit: Connecting Generations in Senior Housing. This toolkit, developed by Generations United and the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston with funding from RRF Foundation for Aging, is now a website with downloadable resources. It was designed specifically to help senior housing organizations plan and implement high-quality intergenerational programs that will benefit residents and young people in their communities. Visit the site.
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Special 20% Discount for GTW Readers |
Intergenerational Contact Zones: Place-based Strategies for Promoting Social Inclusion and Belonging by Matt Kaplan, Leng Leng Thang, Mariano Sánchez, and Jaco Hoffman introduces novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerationally enriched environments. Filled with vivid examples of how ICZs breathe new life into communities and social practices, this important volume focuses on practical descriptions of ways in which practitioners and researchers could translate and infuse the notion of ICZ into their work. Use the discount code SS120 or click this link for the discount.
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Financial Aid Bootcamp sponsored by the Federal Student Aid Office (part of the U.S. Department of Education).This is especially important for those kinship caregivers who are raising an adolescent young adult planning to pursue postsecondary and want to better understand how to apply for financial aid. It is October 20 and 21, 2020. Learn more and register.
New Online Course - International Diploma in Intergenerational Learning. Generations Working Together in partnership with the University of Granada is delighted to offer another opportunity to participate on their accredited on-line course. The 7-week course, taking place Oct. 27- Dec. 14, is aimed at anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of intergenerational work, its purpose, impact and practical application to enable them to apply this within their own work. Students can complete their studies at times which are suitable to them as long as this falls between the start and finish date. Learn more and register
TimeSlips Creative Care Fall Festival 2020: Celebrating Virtual Connections During Quarantine.
This Fall, join TimeSlips once a week from October 29 to November 19 as they invite their community to share all that they have accomplished these past few months in creating innovate ways to creatively engage elders. You will hear from artists-in-residence in Wisconsin, students and elders in Durham, North Carolina, community members in Detroit, and artists in Milwaukee. Learn more and register.
2020 NRPA Annual Conference: A Virtual Experience. National Recreation & Park Association. Oct. 27-29, 2020. Learn more.
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Amazon donates to Generations United when you shop AmazonSmile |
When you shop at AmazonSmile, Amazon donates 0.5% of the purchase prize to Generations United.
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“We don’t know to be sad, the weight of our grandparents’ love like a blanket with us beneath it, safe and warm.”
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We want Generations This Week to be a real resource for you. Please send us any national news on intergenerational issues in addition to upcoming conferences, funding opportunities, reports and webinars. Local and state events can be shared in our Facebook group. Please also let us know how we can improve! Email us at gu@gu.org. We'd love to hear from you!
Best,
The Generations United Team
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Treat Yourself GRAND!
As a reader of Generations This Week, you are eligible to receive a complimentary subscription to GRAND - The Lifestyle Magazine for Awesome Grandparents.
That's a $26 value for 12 issues delivered right to your inbox. Get valuable offers and inspirational articles like our column on GRAND Families, and more.
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