Through a competitive proposal process, seven communities were selected to participate in the LINC project. AIKEN Alice Kirkland Phone: (803) 641-2430 Aiken - Five hundred youth from seven schools are linked with three hundred senior adults in service learning teams. The teams participate in campus-based nature center and wetlands development projects, heritage skills and oral history projects, nutrition education, and performing arts activities, including an intergenerational chorus. BELTON Judith Mancini Phone: (864) 338-6595 Belton - A three pronged approach gives the Belton community a diverse program. In each history class, students are paired with a senior mentor to form relationships through tutorial programs, an internet project and oral history projects. A volunteer school club brings youth and senior adults together to address community needs and classroom teachers may apply for mini grants to help develop intergenerational service learning projects. FLORENCE Shirley Anderson Phone: (803) 664-8152 Florence - Youth and senior adults come together to build relationships while serving the community through projects such as building parks, participating in a classroom tutorial project, working with local nursing homes and planning performing arts projects. GREENWOOD Megan Davis Phone: (864) 229-4103 Greenwood - The Greenwood LINC project develops relationships between youth and senior adults by creating opportunities for the development of academic skills, personal skills and community pride through tutoring and literacy programs, parenting classes, community restoration, and cultural enrichment activities. IRMO Joyce Hall Phone: (803) 345-6181 Irmo - Senior adults and youth are creating a composting garden at a middle school and a local park to teach the community how to compost. Teams of teachers guide participants in the development of related projects, such as earthworm farming and planting community gardens. Community volunteers share their expertise in waste management, gardening, farming, botany and natural history with the youth. KERSHAW Frank Harrison Phone: (803) 432-0951 Kershaw - A collaborative of community organizations matches seven hundred third graders in a variety of ways with senior adults, including tutoring and literacy programs, community service activities, exercise programs, and oral history and heritage skills projects. SUMTER Susan Eaddy Phone: (803) 773-5561 Sumter - Some 21 agencies collaborate to mobilize the Sumter / Shaw community be bringing together 200 youth and 200 senior adults to participate in community education, performing arts, oral history and heritage skills programs, and community service projects. Return to the Retirement & Intergenerational Studies Lab.
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