About Us
Growing healthy children and helping seniors thrive as they age in their community.
Generations Together, a program sponsored by the Odindi Youth Action Village and the Community Family Life Center, envisions a thriving, culturally rich community within the West Willow neighborhood, empowered individuals of every age, and programs that facilitate connection.
A better community.
If we can improve the standing of older adults in society and nurture their contributions through intergenerational connections, we can build a better community and improve the quality of life for all ages. Everyone has the ability, to the extent to which they have the choice, to live the kind of life they want. This multi-generational dynamic encourages older generations to teach the young how to be and how to become, and younger generations to offer fresh perspectives, adaptability, and new ways of understanding the world.
“And so, a strong, healthy, intergenerational web of community grows.”
Where the young and old connect naturally.
The dance of love and lore between the old and young is at the center, not the fringes, of our evolutionary and remarkable stories
Many of our older adults have been through ordeals we can’t even imagine. Most of us have made sacrifices to ensure that the next generation will be in better hands from the moment we’re born until we grow up to be who we are today.
The vulnerabilities of the young are reminders of how intimately related we are to some of our greatest human strengths – our capacities for learning, resilience, cooperation, perseverance, culture, and hopes for the future.