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From Ascribe Newsfeed: The Alliance for Children and Families has announced recipients of funding and technical assistance awards as part of a major mentoring initiative for members of the Alliance. Of the 20 agencies, 10 have been identified to serve as mentors, helping the other 10 to strengthen their capabilities for improving the lives of older adults in their communities. The program is part of the New Age of Aging, a five-year initiative of the Alliance for Children and Families designed to help prepare human service organizations throughout North America to best provide services for older adults as the vast baby boom generation ages. The mentoring teams will work together in the coming year to develop supportive learning relationships, motivate leadership, and build organizational and staff capacity related to aging. - Child and Family Services, Newport, R.I. (http://www.cfsnewport.org/), will mentor Children and Families First, Wilmington, Del. "The mentoring program will empower participants through a new way of thinking," says Jonette Arms, project director of the New Age of Aging initiative. The aging boom will create a need for more human services for older adults, while the character of this generation will likely require new approaches and new paradigms for serving the aging population. The Alliance for Children and Families, headquartered in Milwaukee, is the nation's largest membership association of private, nonprofit human service providers. We provide direct, immediate access to mainstream national media for 600 colleges, universities, medical centers, public-policy groups and other leading nonprofit organizations.
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