Policy Principles for Intergenerational Community
Family Support

Adapted from Family Support America

Goals

1. Promote Social Justice, economic development and security and methods by which to connect children, seniors, and families to the economic mainstream.

2. Seek to eliminate inequities based on income, race, ethnicity, age, etc.

3. Help children, seniors and families obtain health care, housing, income support, and other necessary services and supports.

4. Promote high quality, developmentally appropriate learning experiences across the life span.

5. Help to expand, improve, and/or sustain in communities all types of intergenerational family support programs that embody the intergenerational family support principles.

6. Help to expand, improve, and/or sustain neighborhood-based family resource centers in communities that embody the intergenerational family support principles.

7. Promote the establishment of the intergenerational family support principles in the delivery of education, health care, community economic development, and other services for children, seniors and families.