Generators: 20 Activities to Recharge Your Intergenerational Group

Rejuvenate your whole community and bring generations together with Generators! This book of reproducible handouts offers a variety of ways to involve everyone-from the young to the young at heart-in building assets and promoting interaction through fun, intergenerational activities. Participants can choose from quick and easy activities or long-term projects, all of which are easy to follow and adaptable for different situations and groups. Each activity highlights one or more examples of real groups that successfully implemented the idea and built assets in the process.

Jennifer Griffin-Wiesner is a writer, editor, and youth development consultant. Her recent publications include a Web-based youth-worker training curriculum, a technical assistance training curriculum for youth development program leaders, and the following three books published by Search Institute: The Journey of Community Change: A How to Guide for Heathy Communities, Healthy Youth Initiatives(2005), Your Workplace: Simple Investment, Big Reward (2004), and Your Family: Using Simple Wisdom in Raising Your Children (2003). She holds an M.Ed. in Youth Development Leadership.