| Recipient |
Localities Served |
Project Highlights |
Amount |
| Intergenerational Grant Awards |
| Warren County Community Health Coalition |
Warren County and Town of Front Royal |
Across Ages Intergenerational Mentoring Program is enhancing, strengthening, and expanding the program developed during Year One. In addition to the centerpiece of older adults mentoring youth ages 11 to 17, the program implements a model prevention program, Across Ages as life skills instruction. |
$37,498.00 |
| Brighton’s Solid Rock of Portsmouth |
Portsmouth |
Brighton’s Solid Rock, Inc. (BSR, Inc.), a faith-based community organization, will be building on the foundation they established with Year One funding to implement school and community-based mentoring programs, the Protect And Respect Our Community Project. These intergenerational mentoring programs pair seniors over the age of 55 with youth in elementary and middle school and are being held at three sites in the community. |
$37,000.00 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rappahannock |
City of Fredericksburg, Stafford and King George Counties |
The RBBBS Protect and Respect Intergenerational Project is an intergenerational mentoring program. Pairing of senior, “Big's” and youth, “Little's” will continue to be established and supported. These pairs also have the opportunity to link with a homebound, “Grand,” to provide services for seniors who are especially vulnerable. |
$30,000.00 |
| Prince William County Office on Youth |
Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park and Prince William County |
The Seasons Intergenerational Mentoring Project pairs seniors with youth in one-to-one mentoring relationships. The “best practices” of mentoring include making matches based on social histories and then providing on-going monitoring and support for the matches. In addition to the benefits provided by mentoring to both the youth and seniors, the Seasons Project provides training opportunities for students at George Mason University in performing the social histories and monitoring matches. |
$36,900.00 |
| Senior Connections: The Capital Area Agency on Aging of Richmond |
City of Richmond, Chesterfield, Henrico and Hanover Counties |
This “Protect & Respect” project, an intergenerational mentoring program will continue to pair mentors over the age of 55 with at-risk children from 6 to 12 years-of-age in 17 school-based programs. Book sets have been donated by Wachovia Securities for all of the program participants. |
$36,577.00 |
| Appalachian Agency for Senior Citizens |
Tazewell County |
The Appalachian Agency for Senior Citizens will build off of their successful crime prevention program during Year One to implement a one-to-one mentoring program that will pair students at Richlands High School with seniors. |
$50,000.00 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County |
Harrisonburg and Rockingham Counties |
Golden Opportunity Project, an intergenerational mentoring program for at-risk children was designed in response to three community-wide needs assessments. Because senior adults expressed a desire for flexibility when volunteering, three program options are offered: community-based mentoring, school-based mentoring, and bi-monthly groups of one-to-one mentoring pairs at the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community. |
$30,000.00 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia |
Cities of Roanoke and Blacksburg, Counties of Roanoke, Salem, Montgomery, Radford and Pulaski |
The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia Older Virginians Mentoring Project will continue to support the 38 active matches made in Year One while continuing to build upon this success. The project will continue to work in collaboration with the Pulaski Retired Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP) and the local Boys & Girls Club. |
$34,472.50 |
| Grayson County Public Schools |
Grayson County |
The Protect and Respect - Alliances Inspiring Successful Education (PRAISE) program will continue to build upon the foundation it laid in Year One by pairing citizens over the age of 55 in mentoring relationships with at-risk students in elementary and middle school settings. |
$37,500.00 |
| Recipient |
Localities Served |
Project Highlights |
Amount |
| Crime Prevention Activities Grants |
| Family Service of Roanoke Valley |
City of Roanoke and Roanoke County |
Roanoke 's Protect & Respect Intergenerational Crime Prevention Teen Outreach Program (TOP) will continue to implement the Youth as Resources model program to provide youth with on-going leadership and life skill development sessions. In addition, youth in these programs will continue to develop and implement crime prevention and safety projects for seniors in school-based, after-school and summer settings. |
$15,000.00 |
| Alliance for Families and Children |
City of Lynchburg |
In Year One, the Alliance for Families and Children led a group of high school-aged youth through the Teens, Crime and Community (TCC) curriculum and then designed and implemented crime prevention projects with seniors in the College Hill neighborhood. After consulting with local officials, Year Two of the Protecting & Respecting Our Neighborhoods project will involve students at Dunbar Middle School, the TCC curriculum and seniors in the Diamond Hill community. |
$9,750.00 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Emporia/ Greenville |
City of Emporia and Greensville County |
The Teens And Seniors Against Crime Project, a crime prevention project using the Teens, Crime and Community curriculum, will continue to be implemented at Wyatt Middle School. Students in this after-school program will design crime prevention activities in conjunction with seniors involved with the local Seniors and Law Enforcement Together (SALT) council, and seniors at the Trinity Woods retirement center. |
$14,192.00 |
| Virginia Beach City Public Schools |
City of Virginia Beach |
Plaza Community Leaders Project, an after-school crime prevention project at Plaza Middle School, will build upon its success during Year One. Youth are led by a collaboration of professionals from several community agencies with the Teens, Crime and Community curriculum. The students perform a survey of seniors in their community regarding their safety needs and then develop and implement community action activities based on the results of the survey. |
$14,250.00 |
