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Intergenerational Programs through Zoom

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Link Generations is continuing its mission of connecting high school and college students with older adults in the community. Join us through Zoom for these intergenerational conversations.

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Link Generations January 12, 2021
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Stories that Link Generations: Spotlight

Stories that Link Generations spotlights the amazing ways that we are connecting youth and older adults in the community. We are using this platform to highlight how our community is adapting and connecting through these difficult times.

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Link Generations December 30, 2020
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Connections | November 2020

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.

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Haleigh Coar November 25, 2020

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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.