In Portland, Maine as part of a homework assignment high school students visited local community health centers to learn about AIDS. The homework grew into a project to dispel HIV/AIDS stereotypes. With permission granted by the centers’ patients these students created a photography exhibit that traveled to many other public schools in Maine. Study stimulated outreach. Outreach brought intergenerational relationships, with in turn created more study and further outreach.

The above is one of several intergenerational programs featured in the Constitutional Rights Foundation Network magazine, Winter 2001. Written by Wendy Schaetzel Lesko