News for Advocates of Children, Youth and Older Adults from Generations United |
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SAVE THE DATE: Sharing Our Spaces: How Intergenerational Shared Sites Maximize Infrastructure Investments and Benefit All Generations |
Join Generations United and The Eisner Foundation on Oct. 14, 2021, at 3 pm ET, for a virtual briefing on intergenerational shared sites. Participants will learn the value and importance of shared sites and how policies can encourage their development and enhancement. Register in advance for this webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. |
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- In her New York Times Letter to the Editor, our Executive Director Donna Butts wholeheartedly agreed with Sixto Cancel's Op-Ed on the foster care system being broken, and that agencies should rethink a system that should better serve those in care. Read Donna's piece.
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Society of Certified Senior Advisors ran our Senior Fellow Irv Katz's article, "Connecting Young and Old by Design: From Intergenerational Occasions to Intergenerational Community," in the new issue of their CSA Journal. Check it out.
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A Huge Thanks to Our Members and Supporters |
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Cirkel
Cirkel aims to build connections between professionals of different ages through in-person events across the U.S. and their CIRKEL Up initiative that connects professionals across ages and career stages for mutual growth and two-way mentorship. All events and connections have gone virtual over the past year. Learn more.
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!
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The Inheritance
In contemporary Manhattan, Eric and Toby are 30-somethings who seem to be very much in love and thriving. But on the cusp of their engagement, they meet an older man haunted by the past, and a younger man hungry for a future. Chance meetings lead to surprising choices as the lives of three generations interlink and collide—with explosive results. 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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Help Us Evaluate Our Racial Equity Toolkits' Impact and Efficacy |
In 2020, Generations United—with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation—released two racial equity toolkits designed to help organizations provide culturally appropriate services to grandfamilies. Later this year, we will release a third resource focused on working with Latino grandfamilies. We are currently evaluating our existing toolkits’ impact and efficacy. Please read them and complete the following relevant survey. We encourage you to also share them with your networks.
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Think Intergenerational - Funding Opportunities |
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Update to Letter of Inquiry Process. RRF Foundation for Aging announces a change to their Letter of Inquiry (LOI) submission deadlines. To provide invited applicants more time to prepare a full proposal, RRF is moving LOI submission deadlines two weeks earlier. Deadlines for full proposals and funding decisions remain unchanged. The next LOI deadline is Nov. 15, 2021. Learn more.
Quality Improvement Project. Opening Minds through Art (OMA) has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Medicaid to expand its program in the state. The grant enables Ohio nursing homes to apply for startup funding to adopt the program. Selected nursing homes will receive $1,500 scholarship for two staff members ($750/person) to attend the OMA Facilitator Training program and $2000 for art supplies. Deadline: ongoing. Learn more.
Grants to Address Social and Economic Injustice. The Fund for a Just Society, a program of the Unitarian Universalist Association, provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and Canada. The average grant is $8,000 (the maximum grant amount is $20,000) to organizati ons that use community organizing to bring about systemic change leading to a more just society. Deadline: ongoing. 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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New Intergenerational Resources. This latest set of free resources, developed by Generations United with support from the RRF Foundation for Aging, aims to strengthen and expand intergenerational programs. The new publications—Making the Case for Intergenerational Programs, Fact Sheet: Intergenerational Programs Benefit Everyone, and Staying Connected While Staying Apart: Intergenerational Programs & the COVID-19 Pandemic—support the growing field of practice by increasing the knowledge and skills of people working to connect and support older adults, children, and youth. Learn more.
Sharing Our Space: A Toolkit for Developing and Enhancing Intergenerational Shared Sites is designed for individuals and organizations interested in creating an intergenerational shared site or enhancing services at their current site. Divided into 10 sections, the toolkit details every step of the development and operation process, from initial planning to sustaining long-term shared site programs. Each section includes effective practices, challenges, tips, examples, and concrete tools gathered from researchers and practitioners from across the field, organized towards the goal of assisting readers in planning and implementing high-quality shared sites. Learn more.
Federal Funding Opportunities for Intergenerational Shared Sites Chart is designed to share some federal funding sources that include—or could include—support for intergenerational shared sites. Learn more.
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 award 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 is important to protect both older adults and children. Check it out.
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Family Resource Centers: Supporting Grandfamilies and Kinship Navigation. Date: Sept. 29, 2021. Learn more.
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Ana Beltran, co-director of Generations United's National Center on Grandfamilies, is presenting at this event.
NEW! The NGO Committee on Ageing. Date: Oct. 1, 2021. Learn more.
Webinar: Taking Care of Yourself During COVID. Date: Oct. 13, 2021. Learn more.
Dear Black Male. Dates: Oct. 26 and Nov. 2, 9, and 16, 2021. Learn more.
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"A country that does not take care of its children and old people is a country without soul."~Unknown
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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. You can share local and state events 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!
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