Woo-Hoo! Woot-Woot! It’s Intergenerational (IG) Awareness Month. A month set aside to raise awareness about and celebrate the benefits of intergenerational connections. Bridges Together (BT) is celebrating and we hope you will join in…. For…
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Last week Bridges Together Founder and Executive Director Andrea J. Fonte Weaver traveled to Milwaukee with BT board member Lee Ann Frigulietti for the Generations United Global Intergenerational Conference, cohosted by St. Ann Center for…
Bridges Together is happy to announce that Ella Houlihan, a senior at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, has been awarded an OMEGA (Opportunities for Multigenerational Engagement, Growth, and Action) Scholarship, sponsored by MIT AgeLab, the New…
Bridges Together is happy to announce our partnership with the Generation to Generation (or Gen2Gen) campaign. Gen2Gen is an outgrowth of Encore, an organization devoted to older adults’ “second acts.” Understanding the power of intergenerational…
“There’s a buzz and energy in the community that may not have existed before,” says Susan Curtin, referring to intergenerational programming taking place in her community via the Norwell Council on Aging. Curtin, the Program…
Urban activist Jane Jacobs said this about the inhabitants of a city: “The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties…
Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that has provided communities and health care for seniors, research into aging, and education for geriatric care providers since 1903. In addition to its eight senior…
Patti Russo, a certified poetry therapist with a passion for intergenerational relations, has been running a program in which high school students and older adults meet for six weeks to read and discuss poetry relevant to…
After attending a Bridges Together workshop last fall, Debby Triffletti of the Lynnfield (MA) Council on Aging was inspired to start a new intergenerational program. Joining forces with the Lynnfield Moms Group, she planned a…
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