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It's holiday craft time. Did you know that crafting promotes natural conversation and curiosity. Crafting can also promote many other things, including: Mental health: Crafting can improve mood, self-confidence, and reduce stress. It can also help with symptoms of anxiety, depression, insomnia, chronic pain, and PTSD. Physical health: Crafting can improve hand-eye coordination, spatial coordination,… Continue reading Linking Generations Christmas Crafts – École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) and Heartland Housing Silver Birch Lodge/Haven Seniors Residences

It's holiday craft time. Did you know that crafting promotes natural conversation and curiosity. Crafting can also promote many other things, including: Mental health: Crafting can improve mood, self-confidence, and reduce stress. It can also help with symptoms of anxiety, depression, insomnia, chronic pain, and PTSD. Physical health: Crafting can improve hand-eye coordination, spatial coordination,… Continue reading Linking Generations Christmas Crafts – École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) and Heartland Housing Silver Birch Lodge/Haven Seniors Residences

It's holiday craft time. Did you know that crafting promotes natural conversation and curiosity. Crafting can also promote many other things, including: Mental health: Crafting can improve mood, self-confidence, and reduce stress. It can also help with symptoms of anxiety, depression, insomnia, chronic pain, and PTSD. Physical health: Crafting can improve hand-eye coordination, spatial coordination,… Continue reading Linking Generations Christmas Crafts – St. John Paul Middle School and Heartland Housing Dr. Turner Lodge

Sometimes, just a simple visit is all it takes to make a day brighter. Click here to see other pictures !

The Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent Program was created in 2019 in response to a lack of opportunities for young and old to relate in an increasingly age-segregated society. Under this program, Senior volunteers can volunteer within a school environment – grade 1-8 in different schools in the county of Sherwood Park. Senior volunteers Grandparents share… Continue reading One of Linking Generations Grandparents is teaching students at OLPH how to knit

The students read to the seniors. And, together they coloured remember colouring sheets to display for the Remembrance Day ceremony. École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) and Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge Click here to see other pictures !

Sometimes all it takes is a board game to connect. What is a board game? Well, according to the dictionary it is: plural noun: board gamesany game played on a board, especially one that involves the movement of pieces on the board, such as chess or checkers. Did you know: Playing board games triggers the… Continue reading Board Games with the Linking Generations Seniors and Students – École Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School (OLPH) and Heartland Housing Clover Bar Lodge

Sometimes all it takes is a board game to connect. What is a board game? Well, according to the dictionary it is: plural noun: board gamesany game played on a board, especially one that involves the movement of pieces on the board, such as chess or checkers. Did you know: Playing board games triggers the… Continue reading Board Games with the Linking Generations Seniors and Students – Lakeland Ridge Junior High School and Chartwell Emerald Hills

The Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent Program was created in 2019 in response to a lack of opportunities for young and old to relate in an increasingly age-segregated society. Under this program, Senior volunteers can volunteer within a school environment - grade 1-8 in different schools in the county of Sherwood Park. Senior volunteers Grandparents share… Continue reading Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent Program – Nana

Our students from St. Theresa Catholic School and their linked seniors from Christenson Developments Bedford Village, share trivia questions and facts while sharing laughter and conversations. Click here to see other pictures !