This is a public space (or "wiki") hosted by The Intergenerational School in Cleveland, OH, where community partners can share best practices that promote quality of life and lifelong learning for older and younger persons. Our goal is to create a collective repository about intergenerational partnerships that can be accessed and added to by anyone in the world.

To contribute: Simply click "Easy Edit" above, scroll down to an open field, and provide (1) Your organization's name (2) Your location (3) A short summary of your best practices, and (4) Contact information (optional). You can also add a story, picture, or video as well.

Best Intergenerational Practices

Organization: The Intergenerational School: a community charter school for 150 low-income students in Cleveland that also welcomes older mentors, even persons with dementia, to work with students.
All Season Preschool
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA
Inver Grove Heights, MN
Summary of Best Practices: Our best practices have been those which have enabled sustained meaningful relationships to form with our students and with our older mentors. The following activities have been particularly successful:

-Discussions about heritage in which older and younger students talk about holidays/culturally significant customs and practices
-Activities-based engagement - exercise, arts and crafts
-Reminiscence therapies - scrapbooks, interviewing, oral history, having students bring in objects that make them feel comfortable as conversation pieces
-Group activities - have often proven more successful than one-on-one interaction
Plans for the fall opening of our school: art studio activities, exercise, gardening, walks, music, scrapbooking.
Contact information: Danny George, volunteer coordinator (216) 721 - 0120
Amy Lemieux, director 651-450-0606
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