In September, an anonymous donor among ONEgeneration's Adult Daycare families made a generous offer to match up to $1000.00 in community donations to support our Adult Daycare program. ONEgeneration was able to meet the match with a $1000.00 Community Connections Donation from Wells Fargo.

With the combined $2000.00 received, ONEgeneration has paid the license fee to begin the certification process with Music & Memory. As stated on their website, the goal of Music & Memory is to provide individualized playlists to adults with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of Dementia to help them "reconnect with the world through music-triggered memories." Adult Daycare staff members will start training in the program in October. Remaining funds were used to purchase new furniture to support programming that fits a Person Centered Care model. The furniture will be used for activities that promote interaction and engagement among program participants.

ONEgeneration is very grateful for this opportunity to expand our programs and thankful to the donors that made it possible!

NAEYC Accreditation is a rigorous and transformative quality-improvement system that uses a set of 10 research-based standards to collaborate with early education programs to recognize and drive quality-improvement in high-quality early learning environments. "We are very proud to have earned the mark of quality from NAEYC, and to be recognized for our commitment to reaching the highest professional standards" said Dr. Kristine Vardanyan, Center Director. Our mission is to enrich the lives of children, seniors and their families throughout our diverse community. We provide families with the opportunity for natural encounters between generations. Our unique Intergeneration Program provides for daily opportunities for the children to interact with our "neighbors", the seniors. Through exciting activities such as creative art, cooking, movement, gardening and games, we establish caring connections between children and seniors. These interactions help children acquire new interests, skills and learn the meaning of acceptance, cooperation and compassion. We recognize the value of these connections and provide positive and developmentally appropriate interactions for our older and younger participants. ONEgeneration childcare provides a nurturing, diverse environment where children can develop socially, emotionally, cognitively and physically.

After my mother passed away, I witnessed my own father living in isolation. At the time we were living under the same roof and I would ensure I checked in on him daily as he tended to stay in his darkened bedroom where he rocked back and forth for days. I'm sure everyone has their own definition of isolation, but that's pretty isolated if you ask me, and I knew this was no life for anyone, let alone

my father. It was at that moment I was positive there had to be life beyond the rocking chair, but to what extreme would I go to help? After pondering it for a bit, I retrieved my mother's old phone book from my sister and got my dad a date. Those dates led to 22-years of a successful second marriage where he got to witness six grandchildren brought into this world.

My father got a new lease on life, and I got the inspiration to start Jump!

Don't let the name fool you. I worked for over 24 years in Post Production and our first participant was about to "jump" out of a plane on her 90^th birthday! That was five years ago, and the one thing I've learned is that more individuals are not letting age get in the way of pursuing their dreams. So what's on your bucket list? Let Jump! help make it happen!