Objectives:

To facilitate a two-way mentorship between seniors and youth by sharing seniors’ significant life experiences and document these moments through story writing, poetry, skits, songs and painting .

Stories will uncover challenges seniors have faced and how they overcame them to generate a set of “best practices”.

Youth will have increased appreciation of senior’s life experiences and will become more resilient to life challenges.

Outcomes

• A 10 week program on weekly basis for (2 -3 hours/session) for four cohorts
• Professional story book on empowering moments in seniors lives.
• Testimonies and a video of their achievements
• Two-stage study measure: empowerment, engage in community participation, increase of knowledge, skills and feeling of community support, increase understanding and synergy between seniors and youth
• Achievement celebration and story book launching on November, 2014
• A greeting notebook comments at the end of the achievement celebration