Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost.nifl.gov [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA07080; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:38:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:38:24 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <v03010d0ab0b441dd6836@[128.148.147.28]> Errors-To: lmann@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@Brown.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1309] intergenerational institute X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: RO This may or may not be of interest to the list - there is some reference to intergenerational literacy at the website; perhaps worth considering as we broaden our understandings of the relationships between literacy, illiteracy, learning, community development and intergenerational work generally. Janet Isserlis Literacy Resources/RI >Generations Together announces the Sixth International Intergenerational >Training Institute, Pittsburgh, June 10-12, 1998. The Institutes >objectives are to enhance participants knowledge of the intergenerational >field; to identify and build competencies; to identify resources; and, to >provide networking opportunities among professionals in the >intergenerational field. The Institute includes small sessions and >workshops focused on developing and using intergenerational programming >and policy. Experiential workshops will include program management, >training, model development, recruitment, evaluation, and resources. >There will opportunities for participants to present posters about their >programs. > >Attendees may participate in a special track that earns 15 contact hours >toward an Intergenerational Specialist Certificate. This is a >competency-based program at the non-academic, post-baccalaureate level, >provided through the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. >Participants may take up to three years to complete the one hundred hours >of non-job related activities necessary for this certificate. >Participants of the 1997 Training Institute may use that experience of 15 >contact hours toward the certificate. This certificate program, the first >of its kind, is intended for directors, supervisors, coordinators, >teachers, and other human service professional who wish to develop their >skills as intergenerational specialists. > >Generations Together is a unit of the University Center for Social and >Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, dedicated to creating >intergenerational experiences that bring young and old together for mutual >growth and understanding. For more information about the Certificate >program, contact Jim McCrea at Generations Together, (412) 648-7151 or >e-mail: jmccrea+@pitt.edu. Content brochures for the Institute will be >available next spring. To get on the Institute mailing list, contact Ann >G. Mitchell at (412) 648-7153 or e-mail: mitch1@pitt.edu, or visit our >Web page at http://www.pitt.edu/~gti > > >Jonquil D. Feldman >Librarian, Generations Together >University of Pittsburgh Voice: 412/648-2209 >121 University Place, Suite 300 Fax: 412/624-4810 >Pittsburgh, PA 15260 e-mail jonquil@pitt.edu >
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