Grandmother to Grandmother, New York to Tanzania

Grandmother to Grndmother wins Audience Choice Award at Gero-Ed Film Festival

2011-12-01T08:35:00.000-08:00

Here's what they said on the Gero-Ed website
http://www.cswe.org/CentersInitiatives/GeroEdCenter/Events/gerotrack/11Film.aspx

"Audience Choice Award voters selected Grandmother to Grandmother: New York to Tanzania as the winner of the 2nd annual Audience Choice Award of the Gero-Ed Film Festival. The documentary, available in either 29 or 56 minute lengths, highlights grandmothers and grandchildren from Tanzania and the Bronx to show how inspired partnerships can create opportunities for renewal and hope. In Sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS has orphaned 13 million children. Across America, AIDS, drugs, and violence are wiping out a generation of parents, leaving millions of children behind.

The Audience Choice Award was offered at the 2011 Gero-Ed Film Festival. The winning film was determined by audience scores for content on aging; presentation; technical aspects; whether students would benefit from the film; and the portrayal of positive views of aging."

The Gero-Ed film festival is a project of The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) which is a nonprofit national association representing more than 3,000 individual members, as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. It's great to know that social work faculty will be showing this film to their students, especially since by 2020 it is estimated that one out of every six Americans will be 65 or older.

GRANDMOTHER EMPOWERMENT COMES FROM NY TO TZ!

2011-03-19T14:44:00.000-07:00

Carole Cox, a professor of social work from Fordham University in NYC has taken her Empowerment Course over to the Bibi Jann center and is teaching them and learning from them. Check out her blog and photos to see what's going on: http:// tanzaniaempowerment.blogspot.com

Funding for Grandparent Family Apartments about to be cut

2011-03-16T06:01:00.000-07:00

Does it make any sense that a wonderful, successful program gets threatened with funding cuts when 400 individuals in the USA own as much wealth as half of the population combined, THAT IS 155 million people in this country, if you combine their wealth, have the same amount as 400 rich citizens. No wonder we are in the mess we are in.

Please read the following alert from the Executive Director of Presbyterian Senior Services, and if you live in New York state, please contact your legislators.

New York State is home to the ONLY residence in the U.S. built specifically for grandparents raising grandchildren.

The state budget is about to eliminate funding for this nationally recognized model program – as well as 20 other vital programs.

Click on this link to see a very brief but compelling video about this unique home in the Bronx.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_QvCYMlnkQ

Share this email with others and tell your legislators that they cannot allow Kinship funding to be cut!

Spread the word and SAVE the PSS/WSF Grandparent Family Apartments!

Fifty grandparent families in the Bronx thank you for taking one minute to make a difference.

AARP, Save the Chidren, HelpAge & Stephen Lewis Foundation Host DC Screening

2010-11-04T11:50:00.000-07:00

We were thrilled to be a part of a forum and screening of Grandma2Grandma on Sept. 13th in Washington, DC! AARP hosted the event at their national headquarters, with more than 125 people joining us. It was a great way to share the film with people focused on international development, outreach and understanding as well as those who are already serving grandparents and other relatives raising children. The presenters, who represented each of the co-hosts, each talked about the work they have done or are engaged in currently to support these families across the Globe, bringing home the fact that this phenomenon is truly a growing issue in both developed and developing countries, including Viet Nam, China, Australia, India, Peru, Canada....and of course in Africa. They were all able to reference the film and draw from it parallels to and inspiration for their work. Each attendee received a copy of our 30 min. highlights version of the film, and we hope they will go forth and use the film as a tool to raise awareness of new models and approaches to serving these families. We learned about programs we had never heard about and we realized the film will have impact far beyond our original intentions. Good stuff!