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What is Intergenerational Programming?
Easter Seals envisions a society that values all generations.The IGC full building Vinh
power of connecting the generations will be realized every day at Easter Seals Greater Washington-Baltimore Region’s first intentionally-built “shared site", The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Inter-Generational Center. The intergenerational shared site is a community focal point where children, youth and older adults participate in ongoing services and programs concurrently, and where participants interact during regularly scheduled planned intergenerational activities, as well as through informal encounters.

Benefits of shared site intergenerational programming include: boy putting nametag on senior man

Quality and caring services for adults and children

Enhanced quality of life for all participants

Improved attitude about different age groups

Enhanced social skills

Improved academic performance/learning stimulation

Increased stability/emotional support

Improved health

Research indicates that participants in intergenerational shared sites benefit both children and adults:

Preschool children had higher social developmental scores

Children gained enhanced perceptions of persons with disabilities and of older adults

Children had improved reading scores

Older adults experience fewer falls, and perform better on memory tests

The majority of adult participants reported feeling happy, loved, and younger

Parents and family caregivers believe the intergenerational programming is beneficial for their children or their older adult

Who Provides the Services?
Partnering with organizations such as Generations United and Johns Hopkins University, Easter Seals intergenerational team develops and initiates activities through collaboration with program staff, community partners and volunteers.

The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Inter-Generational Center is the primary site of Easter Seals intergenerational programming. Intergenerational programming also takes place at all Easter Seals Child Development and Adult Day Services centers through partnerships with other community organizations.

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For more information, please contact us at 301-588-8700 or via email.

Easter Seals would like to acknowledge Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services as a sponsoring agency.

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