Wake Forest and Senior Services Inc. recognized for transformative community partnership

With its annual Community Partner of the Year Award, the North Carolina Campus Engagement network has recognized the transformative, five-year collaboration between Senior Services Inc.’s Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness and Wake Forest. The partnership has ranged from NIH-funded neuroarts research, including IMPROVment and IGROOVE, to multidisciplinary projects in health sciences, business and first-year studies. 

“This partnership represents the very best of what university-community collaboration can be,” said Allison Walker, director of community partnerships and experiential learning in the Office of Civic and Community Engagement. “Senior Services doesn’t just host our students, they co-educate them, challenge them and fundamentally reshape how they understand aging, community and what it means to learn alongside rather than serve.”