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Co-founded by The Ready At Five Partnership, Maryland Departments of Aging and Education, Interages, and United Seniors of Maryland, The Maryland Intergenerational Coalition is a statewide coalition created to stimulate intergenerational opportunities at the community level.

Managed by Ready At Five, The Coalition:

Current Work

• Outreach. Produces regular Newsletters for over 2200 constituents, including elementary school principals, Area Offices on Aging, Senior Centers, Local Management Boards, and Head Start Grantees and develops tools for launching intergenerational achivities. The recent Newsletter and the guide, How to Start Intergenerational Programs in Communities, are now available on-line.
  
• Policy and Legislation. Supports legislative issues regarding grandparents raising children.
  
• Events. Sponsors "1st Talks," which will be held in select communities to stimulate intergenerational activities.
  

Accomplishments

• Secured passage of State legislation enabling grandparents and other adults to give consent for childhood immunizations.
  
• Mobilized Maryland's seniors to increase the number of children who receive timely immunizations.
  
• Produced a video featuring senior leaders, state officials, grandparents, pediatricians and former Baltimore Oriole Harold Baines, which highlights the role seniors play in the healthy growth and development of young children.
  
• Produced a number of publications, including Senior Power + Young Children = School Readiness and Programs That Work for Communities: An Inventory of Some Intergenerational Programs in Maryland, which documents the vital role senior citizens play in the lives of children and provides specific examples.
  
• Commissioned Children and Seniors Together (CAST) a Senior Awareness Seminar to orient a cadre of senior citizens across Maryland about the needs of young children.
  
• Produced three newsletters (September 2001, Spring 2002, and Summer 2002) on Intergenerational activities.
  
• Sponsored the Maryland Intergenerational Coalition's 3rd Annual Conference, Linking the Generations to Strengthen Communities, held on September 24, 2002.