Making the Connection: SaYES to Intergenerational Service-Learning

This publication is an adaptation of the SaYES online course, Making the Connection: SaYES to Intergenerational Service-Learning, accessed through the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (www.servicelearning.org/sayes-seniors-and-youth-engaged-service). The online course was created by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) and ETR Associates with funding from the Corporation for National and Community Service. These products were designed to help both Learn and Serve sub-grantees and Senior Corps' RSVP directors and coordinators forge effective partnerships. The content is intended to be useful to other youth-program coordinators involved in service-learning and other 55+ adult volunteer program managers as well. The printed guide has three chapters that correspond to the learning topics of the online course: Linking Volunteer Organizations and Schools: Characteristics of Effective Partnerships; Engaging Older Adult Volunteers to Support Service-Learning Efforts: Strategies for Schools; and Finding and Keeping the Right Older Adult Volunteers: Strategies for Volunteer Organizations. There are appendices that include handouts, forms, templates, and marketing tools to assist in turning learning into action. There is also a list of references used to create these materials that will lead further into the topics presented. (authors)