Welcome to Sherbrooke is a podcast that takes you inside Sherbrooke Community Centre; a long-term care home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where 263 residents live and which follows the Eden Alternative Philosophy of Care.

In this episode, we are visiting the Tawaw Centre at Sherbrooke, which is our main gathering space, where the room is full of residents, students, families and staff.

The reason everyone is here is because the iGen class is hosting a Heritage Fair.

iGen is short for Intergenerational Program. Since 2014, Sherbrooke and the Saskatoon Public School Division have partnered on the iGen program. It sees 25 grade six students spent their entire school year at Sherbrooke and is designed to provide close and continuing contact between Sherbrooke Elders and the students throughout the school year.

iGen is the only one of its kind in Canada and is an incredible example of the power of intergenerational relationships.

There have been several stories done on iGen and its impact on Elders and students, and there are links below in the show notes to those stories if you would like to learn more about how the program works. We also have a Welcome to iGen podcast that you can listen to as well.

For this episode, we are focusing on how relationships are formed between iGen students and Sherbrooke Elders.

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the Welcome to Sherbrooke podcast. You can listen to episodes wherever you find your favourite podcasts including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Visit our website, www.sherbrookecommunitycentre.ca, to learn more about Sherbrooke, and don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.

• CBC Saskatchewan Web Story on iGen
• CBC Television Story on iGen
• CBC Radio's White Coat, Black Art on iGen

Episode Credits:

Produced, edited, mixed by Eric Anderson

Executive Producer is Kim Schmidt

Music licensed through APM Music

Gathered on location at Sherbrooke Community Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada