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,
MCPS UPDATE...MCPS UPDATE...MCPS UPDATE...
MCPS has changed its policy for JCA Heyman Interages volunteers. MCPS yellow badges will no longer be issued or used. Volunteers registered in a JCA Interages program should now bring a state-issued ID, such as a driver's license, and check in at the front desk of the school. If you are volunteering in a virtual JCA Interages program, please have your state-issued ID ready to show if asked. JCA Interages volunteer fingerprinting records are shared with the school. Also, MCPS is requiring that the MCPS badges be returned to MCPS. Please either mail your badge(s) to the Office of Human Resources and Development 45 W. Gude Drive Suite LLC14 Rockville, Maryland 20850, or to Indira Dingledine, Volunteer Manager, JCA Heyman Interages 12320 Parklawn Drive Rockville, MD 20852. We recommend that you take a picture of your badge for your records before returning the badge. We will keep you updated on MCPS developments.
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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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JCA Heyman Interages Program of Distinction Designation is Renewed.
Generations United’s Program of Distinction designation serves as the U.S. benchmark for intergenerational programs and is based on the criteria that underpin the effectiveness of high-quality intergenerational programs. These programs are in an elite class as a program recognized with a designation of this stature.
Generations United improves the lives of children, youth, and older adults through intergenerational programs, policies, and strategies.
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Volunteers Needed!
JCA Heyman® Interages is looking for volunteers to participate in the Reader’s Theater program in-person at Harmony Hills Elementary School with 5th grade students on Tuesdays from 12:40 to 1:10 pm during the school year. Two volunteers will be placed with 5 to 7 students.
Reader’s theater is a style of theater in which the readers gather in small groups to convey stories using vocal expression to help the audience understand it. Reader's theater increases reading comprehension, reading motivation, and helps develop fluency through repeated exposure to text.
Winter program will run from January 10th until March 7th 2023
Spring program will run from March 21st until May 16th 2023
Please let us know if you can participate in both or just one of them
Harmony Hills ES - 13407 Lydia St,
Silver Spring, MD 20906
Preregistration and background check required.
—For more information or to RSVP—
Please contact Indira Dingledine/Olga Pulgar-Vidal
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SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR
IN-CLASSROOM OPPORTUNITES!
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Make a difference directly in the classroom!
Volunteer opportunities are available across Montgomery County:
Gaithersburg Middle School
Redland Middle School
Clopper Mill Elementary School
Maryvale Elementary School - Pre K
Preregistration and a background check are required for all opportunities.
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AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program
The AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) provides social and academic support to elementary children to promote school readiness. Foster Grandparents volunteer one-on-one with children in their classrooms at least 20 hours a week for an entire school year. Among other activities, Foster Grandparents provide and reinforce values to children in a smaller classroom group. At the moment, Foster Grandparents will are providing support in local elementary schools and other host sites throughout Montgomery County.
Daly Elementary
Wheaton Woods Elementary
Highland Elementary
Requirements:
- you are at least 55 years of age
- you are either a U.S. citizen or a green card holder
- you are at or below 400% income level which is $54,360/yr per single adult. Those who meet certain income guidelines receive a stipend of $3.15/hour
- you can commit to at least 20 hours per week for a full school year of volunteering
All FGP volunteers receive training, accident and liability insurance, meals on duty, and transportation reimbursement.
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Volunteer Highlight
Lisa Farhi was born in New York, though she spent most of her childhood in California (CA). She attended the University of California (UC)-Davis for human development and UC-Los Angeles (UCLA) for graduate school in teaching. Her first teaching jobs were in LA and San Francisco. She did that for about 7 years before her husband got a job as a reporter for the Washington Post, where he still works; they moved to the area with their toddler son, who is now 37 years old. Today, they also have a daughter (29) and two grandchildren.
Throughout her 40-year career in education, Lisa worked with pre-kindergarten and elementary-age children. With MCPS, she served as a classroom teacher, a consulting teacher, a staff development coordinator, a county instructional assistant and an assistant principal. Former students remember her from Fallsmead, Ritchie Park, Seven Locks and Twinbrook Elementary Schools. Now retired, she is glad to remain in the area, noting “It’s so beautiful to hear about my former students from their parents.”
Today, she’s involved in two book clubs and a movie club. Her half-Armenian, half-Greek heritage brings a Middle Eastern bent to what she cares about and reads about, mainly showing up in her cooking. Through the Jewish Council for the Aging, Lisa volunteers with the Head Start program taught by Mrs. Anne-Marie Simcox at Maryvale ES, an experience she describes as “wonderful” from the day she started.
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MONTHLY READING TUTOR TRAINING SERIES
We hope you will join us on Zoom for our new 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. Prereregistration 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
UPCOMING SESSIONS
January 17, 2023 at 1:00 pm TOPIC Gathering data to inform instruction.
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.
February 21, 2023 at 1:00 pm TOPIC TBD
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.
March 21, 2023 at 1:00 pm TOPIC TBD
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.
April 18, 2023 at 1:00 pm TOPIC TBD
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.
May 23, 2023 at 1:00 pm TOPIC TBD
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.
Resources
Reading Rockets has a lot of good information about the components of phonics instruction as well as activities and teaching strategies
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‘Garden of Lights’ at Brookside Gardens is open.
The 'Garden of Lights', an annual display at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, brings festive lights and holiday cheer. The exhibit will be open from 5:30-9:30 p.m. every night through Jan. 1, except Dec. 24-25.
Brookside Gardens is located at 1800 Glenallan Ave. in Wheaton
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Seeking Volunteers
for a Unique Opportunity
MCPS is proud to announce the return of a unique, in-person learning experience for 7th graders this year: Junior Achievement Finance Park at Edison High School of Technology. Each year, 7th-grade students around MCPS learn about financial literacy through a series of lessons to help better prepare them for adulthood. Their learning concludes with a simulation to experience what it’s like to be an adult in the real world! This wonderful experience has been virtual for the last couple of years, but we’re excited to be able to go back in person to the actual center this year. Gaithersburg Middle School (GMS) students are scheduled for this experience on January 4th, 5th, and 6th, and we can’t do this without your help!
When: January 4th, 5th, and 6th, 2023, 8:30am-1:45pm
Who: Any person 18 years of age or older that has ever paid a bill (any type of bill)
Where: Edison High School of Technology (12501 Dalewood Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20906)
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Seeking Volunteers
for the Annual Food Drive Committee
Join us to battle hunger. JCA Interages is seeking volunteers for a committee to help plan our annual Good Deeds Day Food Drive. Each year, JCA Heyman Interages participates in The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington's locally-led "Good Deeds Week", an international initiative. The food drive will be held on a day in March and needs community members dropping off food, as well as younger volunteers helping bring in the donations. This will meet the JCA Interages mission of providing meaningful intergenerational programming. The students will earn Service Learning Hours.
According to Harvest Share, limited access to food is not what first comes to mind when we think about Montgomery County but, in our population of over 1 million, 115,000 people are considered food insecure. The number of residents affected has increased 37% since the pandemic began with 41,000 children impacted. (Gundersen, C., M. Hake, A. Dewey, E. Engelhard (2020). The Impact of the Coronavirus on Food Insecurity in 2020, Update October 2020 [Data file and FAQ]. Available from Feeding America: research@feedingamerica.org).
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Gaithersburg CARES Hub In Need of Items |
Supplies are low at the Gaithersburg CARES Hub. Anything that can be donated would be greatly appreciated.
The Gaithersburg CARES Hub accepts donations Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Donations can be dropped off in the front lobby of Seneca Creek Community Church, 13 Firstfield Road in Gaithersburg. Please practice proper hygiene & social distancing when dropping off items.
The Cares Hub at Seneca Creek Community Church is feeding 600-800 families each week.
For direct delivery of items purchased online for donation, please us this address:
Seneca Creek Community Church
13 Firstfield Road, Suite 100
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
ATTN: GBURG CARES HUB
Needs:
Sugar
Juice
Milk (shelf stable)
Masa
Coffee
Oil
Oatmeal
Cereal
Cans of food
Mac and cheese
Pancake mix
Anything that cannot be dropped off, please let them know and they can arrange pick up. 301-793-3321
Thank you!
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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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If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours.
Dolly Parton
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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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