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| Forming intergenerational program networks | | Author(s) | Herbert Callison, Donna Kirk-Swaffar |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 28, no 3, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 229-241 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Young people ; Age groups [elderly] ; Social contacts ; Social interaction ; Social surveys ; United States of America ; Canada. |
| Annotation | In Spring 1991, funding was provided by Mainstream, Inc., to co-ordinate a conference of representatives of intergenerational networks from Canada and the US, to discuss the formation and maintenance of intergenerational networks. This article reports on a follow-up survey of participants at the conference conducted four years later, along with others who had subsequently joined networks. The necessary elements for successful intergenerational network formation are discussed: community support; strategic planning; the network's structure; public relations and marketing; funding; and involving elected officials and state administrators. Nine barriers are most likely to challenge the efforts of the network and its leadership: scarce resources; ill-defined goals and objectives; imbalanced representation; lack of identified network benefits; unfavourable perception of network purpose; network member competition; `turfism' (i.e. protecting an agency's service territory); lack of volunteer commitment; rural/urban differences; and geographic obstacles. Respondents to the survey believed that their efforts were worth the time and energy expended. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980219248 A |
| Classmark | SB: BB: TOA: TMA: 3F: 7T: 7S |
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