Generations In Touch is a community based program that primarily aims to set up a system to connect community members and isolated elders through weekly phone calls. This program aims to help connect our community while also amplifying elders voices and helping fight the mental and physical effects isolation can have on seniors. Elders who volunteer for this program will be connected with trained volunteers from the community for phone calls. These calls will be at least weekly, lasting for at least 30 minutes but with room for the calls to go on longer. While the main idea is to create conversations, with training and conversation starters provided for the call, a secondary idea is that the elders could opt-in to record the stories that they tell so that they can share their perspectives and pass on their insights and ideas to the rest of the community.

During the Millennium Fellowship, I will grow this project in my hometown and in the Somerville/Medford area where I am located for college. I will create a system with community organizations to reach out to at least 100 seniors and 100 community members. I will create materials and a process for getting volunteers which includes prompts for the phone calls themselves and training materials for the volunteers. I will set up at least 100 ongoing phone call conversations.