Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success examines established intergenerational programs and provides the training methods necessary for activity directors or practitioners to start a similar program. This book contains exercises that will help you train colleagues and volunteers for these specific programs and includes criteria for activity evaluations. Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction will help you implement programs that enable older adults to build friendships, pass down their skills and knowledge to adolescents, and provide youths with positive role models.

Melissa Hawkins, Kenneth Backman, Francis A Mcguire

Contents Introduction to Intergenerational Programs

• Exemplary Intergenerational Programs
• Evaluation of Intergenerational Programs
• Community Awareness
• Oral History
• Introduction to Sensitivity
• Understanding and Mentoring with At-Risk Youths
• Aging Sensitivity
• Racial and Ethnic Understanding
• References
• Appendix A: Resource List
• Bibliography
• Index