Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder 2009 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Generations United, and the Rachel Carson Council, Inc. announce a poetry, photography, and essay contest "that best expresses the Sense of Wonder that you feel for the sea, the night sky, forests, birds, wildlife, and all that is beautiful to your eyes."  We want you to share this love of nature with a child and others around you. When we teach our eyes and ears and senses to focus on the wonders of nature, we open ourselves to the wonders around us.  To enter the contest or for more information click here.

Sustainable Communities For All Ages A Viable Futures Toolkit The Viable Futures Toolkit is a comprehensive, user-friendly resource that turns the challenges of an aging population into opportunities for all ages to thrive.  It offers guidance to planners, policymakers, service providers, and funders about how to create solutions for older generations that simultaneously address needs of younger generations and their communities. To download the toolkit visit www.viablefuturestoolkit.org

Connecting Generations, Strengthening Communities: A Toolkit for Intergenerational Program Planners by the Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning. Read the Review by Maureen Power, Executive Director at the Intergenerational Urban Institute and Professor of Urban Studies for Worcester State College. This comprehensive resource includes a 13-chapter Handbook a CD-ROM with more than 80 downloadable tools, activities and curricula and a DVD/video.  For a more detailed description, click here. GU members and affiliates can obtain a discount order form by clicking here.

Connecting Generations Tool Kit - Best Practices in Intergenerational Programming is a new toolkit that was developed by United Generations Ontario.  It contains a lot of information to help guide the way to creating, plannign, implementing, and evaluating intergenerational programs. To download the kit click here or visit www.unitedgenerations.ca.

Elders as Resources explores successful practices, programs, and policies to mobilize the vast potential of older people to improve the lives of children, youth, families, and communities.  The complete series of publications is available from Annie E. Casey Foundation or click on each of the items below for direct access.

View of download a Recruiting Older Adults Powerpoint presentation summarizing the material.

Point of View (PDF) - This two-sided single sheet summarizes the Casey point-of-view on the importance of tapping elders as resources for children, youth, families, and communities.

Powerful Allies: Mobilizing Older Adults to Build Strong Communities (PDF) - This guide helps readers to explore the variety of ways in which their communities can tap into the strength of older people, as caregivers, as volunteer power, and as policy allies.

Communities for All Ages: Planning Across Generations (PDF) - This publication introduces readers to the power of planning together for community strengthening through the lifespan.  Both a theoretical framework and relevant examples are offered.

Communities for All Ages in Arizona - Documentation Report Part I - This is an on-going documentation project illustrating the concepts introduced in the Communities for All Ages publication (PDF).

Kinship Care: Supporting Those Who Raise Our Children (PDF) - This publication reveals how we rely on older family members to raise children, explores the needs of those generous elders, and outlines ways in which we can better support them.

Kinship Care Fact Sheet (PDF) - A two-sided single sheet summarizing the data on the role of older family members in the care of children.

Occasional Paper #1: Making What Difference?  How Intergenerational Programs Help Children and Families (PDF) - A review of the evaluation literature on intergenerational program by Velerie Kuehne.

Occasional Paper #2: Capturing the Windfall: Older Adults in the Social Sector Workfore (PDF) - An analysis of the possibilities for older people to devote their energies to understaffed jobs that our children and families need, by Marc Freedman

Occasional Paper #3: Intergenerational Community as Intervention - A discussion of the lessons learned from an intentional intergenerational community, by Brenda Eheart et al.

2005 Cooperative Extension System Publication on Aging Issues
In collaboration with CSREES National Program Leader, Caroline Crocoll, Cooperative Extension System faculty have contributed information and resources to the development of the 45-page 2005 Cooperative Extension System Resources, Contacts, and Collaborations: Aging Issues, with resources and contacts on aging issues organized by state.  This e-publication included the name and contact information for each of the partner institutions, as well as more detailed contact information for the heads of the aging education programs.  Where the states have specific extension or other programs related to aging issues, more information describing the program is included.  NOTE: To open the links embedded in the document, hold your control key and click enter.

And from Penn State University, a variety of helpful resources can be found at Intergenerational Programs and Aging or download their order form.

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