The Heyman Interages®Center is a program
of JCA® - Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington.
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THE INTERAGES CONNECTOR
STAYING CONNECTED
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Staying in Touch
Hello, JCA Interages Volunteers,
As we celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month in April, we want to take this opportunity to express our sincere appreciation for your invaluable contributions. So, from all of us at JCA Heyman Interages, we extend our heartfelt thanks for your hard work, dedication, and contributions. Your selfless service has made a real difference and we could not do it without you. This edition of the Interages Connector highlights volunteer award winners and others.
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We honor the memory of
Kofi Fempong
JCA Heyman Interages partnered with Kennedy High School and Kofi Fempong for more than a decade, through the JCA Heyman Interages Dialogues Program, a long-standing Interages program, which brings together older adults and youth attending the Kennedy High School Leadership Training Institute for meaningful dialogues. We are deeply saddened by this loss and wish condolences to his family.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, April 27th 2023 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Beall Funeral Home (6512 Crain Hwy, Bowie, MD 20715). A mass will be held on Friday, April 28th 2023 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at the St. Pius X Catholic Church (14720 Annapolis Rd, Bowie, MD 20715). A burial will be held on Friday, April 28th 2023 at 12:00 PM at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery (13801 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20906).
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Opening Minds Through Art (OMA)
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS!
The JCA Heyman Interages Center is looking for adult volunteers to join us this summer for an award-winning, evidence-based, intergenerational art-making program called Opening Minds Through Art (OMA). Volunteers will work alongside JCA staff to support our first OMA intergenerational program.
High school and college students will partner with JCA's Kensington Club members (older adults with early stages of memory loss) as they create abstract art projects that engage the mind and break through cognitive barriers. OMA is a failure-free program designed to provide older adults with opportunities for creative self-expression and social engagement.
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Adult volunteers are needed to serve art supplies and provide artistic choices to the intergenerational pairings as well as help with set-up and clean-up. The following eight dates led by trained OMA facilitators will be held at the JCA in Rockville and all sessions are required to participate. Please contact rlanman@accessjca.org for further details.
Thursday, June 29th from 10 am - 12 pm: Volunteer training
Six Fridays in a row: June 30th - August 4th from 9:30 am - 12:00 pm: OMA art classes
Friday, August 11th, 10:00 am -12:00 pm: Art Show
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Eli's Loaves of Love through the JCA Kensington Clubs
SEEKING VOLUNTEERS!
Volunteers deliver freshly-baked challahs from Sunflower Bakery right to the homes of isolated seniors. We provide human contact -- at a social distance and with masks on, of course -- along with delicious aromas and tastes. Seeking volunteers to make deliveries on Fridays.
For More Information
Contact: Colleen Kemp
Phone: 301-255-4204
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The coffee is on us! Come meet and greet with JCA Interages staff and volunteers. Learn about our new summer volunteer opportunities and share your ideas.
Thursday, May 25 at 10:00 am
JAVA Nation
11120 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
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Sariah - Heyman Interages Youth Service Award
The Heyman Interages Youth Service Award celebrates and honors the efforts of young volunteers who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and commitment when participating in the Heyman Interages programming.
Sariah has been a volunteer for Interages for the past two years, doing an excellent job interviewing older adults. She also has participated in our program with Kensington Club.
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Mike Anderson - Cutler Award
The Margaret Cutler Award is named in honor of Interages’ first Board President. It is given each year to an individual who shows excellence in developing, implementing, or supporting intergenerational programs in Montgomery County.
Mike Anderson has developed and provided the “Know Your Learner” training for our volunteers. Mike is a Student Support Teacher at Daly Elementary School. He provides real world insights, addressing school culture and who we are as tutors, teachers, and those with authority. He also discusses the promotion of positive relationships and the academic, social, and psychological well-being of students in general.
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Maria Pearson - Austin Heyman Volunteer Service Award
The Austin Heyman Volunteer Service Award is named after the founder of Interages. This award honors an individual who is making significant contributions to intergenerational volunteer programming in their community through their time, actions, talents, and dedication The honoree selected should serve as a role model for compassion, and service and be striving to make the world a better place.
Maria joined Interages in 2018 and has witnessed so much growth and development in the children with whom she works. She participated in a virtual bilingual literacy program at Brown Station Elementary, now tutors with the Interages Thriving Germantown program, helps in the classroom with ESOL students at volunteers at Gaithersburg Middle School, and will be in the Highland Elementary Summer Book Club.
In this video, JCA Heyman Interages Founder, Austin Heyman gives accolades to Maria Pearson for her volunteering.
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See volunteer opportunities anytime through our Volunteer Portal:
Please note, all opportunities require
preregistration and a background check.
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Would you like to volunteer this summer? Please take a moment to fill in our Summer Volunteer Survey to help us gain a better idea of the community's availability and interests.
Thank you!
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JCA Interages Seder
Members from the JCA's Kensington Club took their first field trip since before Covid began to celebrate Passover with students at the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School. Milton students have been regularly visiting KC members at their club this school year, so it was quite a treat for the members to get to travel to the students' home base! They participated in a mini-seder, sang songs together, and even got to watch a reenactment of the Passover story. It was a beautiful intergenerational experience for all!
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One of our Foster Grandparent volunteers was out sick from the classroom for a couple of days and the kids made him this wonderful "miss you/get well" card. |
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MONTHLY READING TUTOR TRAINING SERIES
We hope you will join us on Zoom for our monthly Reading Tutor Training series. We are so grateful to presenter Megan Bainbridge, Reading Specialist of the Captain James E. Daly Elementary School, who is providing the sessions. Each session focuses on a different Reading Tutor Training topic, and lasts about an hour. Pre-registration online is required.
Please note, these sessions are providing broad tips and are not intended to be certification level training.
RECORDED SESSIONS
September 2022 [Already recorded] TOPIC Science of Reading (Shift to Structured Literacy from Balanced Literacy).
October 2022 [Already recorded] TOPIC Decoding
November 2022 [Already recorded] TOPIC 3rd- 5th grade Intermediate Reading Skills
January 2023 [Already recorded] TOPIC Gathering data to inform instruction.
February 2023 [Already recorded] TOPIC Warm-up Exercises by Grade Level.
March 2023 [Already recorded] TOPIC Obstacles and Solutions.
April 2023 [Already recorded] TOPIC Assessments you can use.
UPCOMING SESSIONS
May 23, 2023 at 1:30 pm TOPIC Understanding School Literacy Testing
Registration Link
Register on this link and you will receive a login link, you will also receive an email with a recording of the session.
Things You Can Use
Direct links to the resources:
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Make a gift to support the good work that we do.
You can designate your gift to intergenerational programs on the donation form.
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
- Nelson Mandela
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For your convenience, past issues of the JCA Interages Connector are available on the JCA Interages website.
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Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington
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