Program Activities
- Mentoring. Older adults (55+) are recruited from the community, trained and matched as mentors. Mentors spend a minimum of two hours per week in one-on-one contact with the youth.
- Community Service. Youth spend 1-2 hours per week performing community service, which includes regular visits to frail elders in community nursing homes.
- Social Competence Training. Across Ages utilizes the Social Problem-Solving Module of the Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents (Weissberg et. al, 1990). The 26 lessons are taught weekly for 45 minutes.
- Family Activities. Monthly weekend events are held for youth, their family members and mentors and include activities that are culture-specific as well as recreational, social and sporting events.