A University of Michigan study found that older adults engaging in this activity are less likely to feel isolated.
When one door closes, another one opens, and a grant has helped make that possible for area students.
With the help of a grant, Kenosha Area Family and Aging Services Inc. has been able to continue the Milwaukee AmeriCorps Foster Grandparents Program that closed abruptly over the summer.
Since then, 18 out of 26 volunteers in the program returned and reestablished relationships with schools and students in the Milwaukee community.
“It’s not about us, it’s about the opportunity to serve people,” said KAFASI Executive Director Ron Tatum. “And who more needs that attention than our youth right now?”
The Foster Grandparent program connects adults ages 55 and older with school children in Kenosha, and other areas in which the program is offered.
The goal of the program, federally funded by AmeriCorps …