
Connections | December 2020
A Link Generations middle school volunteer created this New Years’ card to celebrate the upcoming 2021 Year of the Ox.
A Link Generations middle school volunteer created this New Years’ card to celebrate the upcoming 2021 Year of the Ox.
Thanksgiving and winter holidays remind us of the importance of being with family and friends. This year, we feel the need for togetherness more than ever, knowing that we need to stay physically apart to keep each other safe from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Link Generations has had its busiest year to date making social connections between youth and older adults isolated by the pandemic.
Link Generations in the Time of Corona Connecting with each other is more important than ever during this time of uncertainty and social isolation. We know this from the 830
4th Annual Celebration was a New Kind of Hit While we missed getting together in person for our annual spring picnic and Bethesda Big Train Baseball game, we proved that
Good Things Happen When We Link Generations We are learning how to tolerate “social distancing,” but what we are really doing is physical distancing. This cannot keep us apart and
The Link Generations Club at Gaithersburg High School celebrated its third year with a special event jazz concert. The GHS Jazz Band performed for students and residents from Charles E.
Link Generations was recognized internationally in 2021 by UpSocial Canada, a nonprofit organization that began ten years ago in Barcelona, Spain to address social challenges in communities. UpSocial Canada launched the Caring Community Challenge for Toronto’s Bathurst and Finch Neighborhoods, focusing on models that “bolster feelings of belonging and social inclusion.” They identified more than 90 programs worldwide as models that have fostered greater inclusion across cultures and generations. They narrowed down the 90 programs to 24 feasible models for the Toronto community to review and further narrowed their search to 14 case studies. From those case studies, three innovative approaches were selected to pilot within the Bathurst and Finch Neighborhoods. Link Generations was selected to be one of those three programs.
We piloted the Link Generations program via zoom in the Toronto community in November 2021 and February 2022. You can read more about the program here.