Link Generations

Connecting Youth and Older Adults

🍎 Student Training for Summer Storytelling Series

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🍎 Student Training for Summer Storytelling Series

Announcing our 6th Summer and Returning in Person!

🍎 Student Training Session: Tuesday, July 12, 2-3pm

July 12 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Intergenerational Sessions:

Tuesdays 2-3pm, July 19, July 26, August 9, August 16
Announcing our 6th Summer Storytelling Series at Ingleside at King Farm, with Ingleside Engaged. Please join engaging conversations and share wisdom with older adults, high school students and college students. We are so excited to be back together in person!

Lori Marks, PhD

301-365-2218

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UpSocialLink 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.