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Planning an intergenerational event or program? Want to learn more about integrating intergenerational everyday life? Interested in intergenerational initiatives and organizations? Find helpful resources, toolkits, books, trainings, and more below.

InterGenNS Program Directory

This program directory showcases a wide variety of community initiatives that help connect people on the North Shore across generations and backgrounds.

Planning and Developing Intergenerational Initiatives

Connecting Generations Toolkit

This toolkit by The Wellness Movement, a project by the New Brunswick Department of Public Health, contains practical information and resources to support educators, care providers, community groups and agencies in coordinating successful intergenerational initiatives to engage children, youth and seniors.

Creating Caring Communities

This guide is designed to refer you to resources, websites, and associations with relevant information and resources to support your intergenerational initiatives.

Intergenerational Activities Resource Kit

This guide is designed to refer you to resources, websites, and associations with relevant information and resources to support your intergenerational initiatives.

Intergenerational Community Guide

This guide provides a starting point for generating intergenerational project ideas. You’ll find suggestions on age-appropriate activities, a suggested approach to conducting intergenerational workshops, resources, and short stories – called Reflection Points – to illustrate intergenerational theory and concepts as well as to generate further discussion and thinking.

Intergenerational Workshop Presentation

This PowerPoint presentation is a synopsis of the community guide and is a helpful tool to educate staff.

Intergenerational Programming Toolkit

This toolkit, and accompanying resource guide, was designed by the City of Edmonton to assist organisations in the planning and implementation of intergenerational programs.

Intergenerational Learning Program Operational Guidelines Toolkit

The purpose of this resource is to provide a practical, step-by-step guide to the three-stage process of developing, implementing and evaluating an intergenerational learning program, with templates provided to support each stage of the process.

Connecting Generations in Senior Housing

This toolkit was designed to help senior housing organisations plan and implement high-quality intergenerational programs that will benefit residents and young people in their communities.

Sharing Our Space – A Toolkit for Developing and Enhancing Intergenerational Shared Sites

This toolkit includes effective practices, challenges, tips, examples, and concrete tools that will help you in your planning and implementation efforts of creating intentionally designed places that provide services/programs to multiple generations concurrently and foster meaningful cross-age relationships.

Intergenerational Community Building Resource Guide

The Temple University Intergenerational Centre designed for this guide for community leaders, organizations, funders and intermediaries who are interested in using an intergenerational approach to community building efforts – taking limited budgets into consideration.

A Guide to Bringing Long-Term Residents and Young People Together

This is a practical guide designed to help long-term care facilities form partnerships with schools and youth organizations to create impactful intergenerational programs.

Intergenerational Care in Early Years

This resource explains the benefits of connecting young children and seniors with helpful tips on how to get started.

How to Connect Generations Through the Arts

This short two-page document provides ideas for intergenerational art activities.

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Intergenerational Training Resources

IG Training Resources

The Generations Working Together website has a range of training courses from basic introductions to intergenerational work, to more in-depth and theoretical approaches. This organization is based in the UK and does incredible work in the IG space.

IG Training Resources

BC Council for Families offers ongoing intergenerational training. Join their mailing list to keep informed.

Evaluating Intergenerational Initiatives

The Intergenerational Evaluation Toolkit

The Generations Working Together website has a range of training courses from basic introductions to intergenerational work, to more in-depth and theoretical approaches. This organization is based in the UK and does incredible work in the IG space.

Intergenerational Initiatives and Information

The Intergenerational Evaluation Toolkit

This report showcases how intergenerational programs benefit individuals of all ages and have societal level impacts.

Intergenerational Contact Zones edited by Matthew Kaplan, Leng Leng Thang, Mariano Sanchez, and Jaco Hoffman

This book covers a wide variety of place-based strategies for promoting social inclusion and belonging through intergenerational connections.

Intergenerational Contact Zones edited by Matthew Kaplan, Leng Leng Thang, Mariano Sanchez, and Jaco Hoffman

This book provides a comprehensive background to intergenerational learning, along with tools and resources to help develop and improve your own intergenerational practice.

An Intergenerational Equity Framework

This resource provides ideas and tools for implementing equitable intergenerational initiatives into community programs, addressing themes such as intergenerational learning, structural racism, and collective leadership.

A Webinar on Cultural Responsiveness in Intergenerational Programs

A webinar hosted by Generations United on the importance of organizations bringing younger and older people together from diverse communities and recommendations for designing programs that reflect different cultural norms and values.