Developing a Two-Generation Approach to Parenting a Second Time Around

Date: June 2021 - August 2021
Location: CCE Orange County
Intern: Sofia Urquiola (Sofia's blog)
Faculty sponsor: Kimberly Kopko, Dept. of Policy Analysis and Management
Campus-based mentor/supervisor: Julia Chapman
Field mentors/supervisors: Julika von Stackelberg and Susan McCormack, CCE Orange County
Stipend: $5,000

Man and granddaughter reading together — Participants in a Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County parenting workshop. Photo by R.J. Anderson, Cornell Cooperative Extension

The Parenting A Second Time Around (PASTA) curriculum, designed for grandparents/relatives who are parenting again, focuses on caregiver needs and supports. The goal of this project is to expand the PASTA program to address the needs and supports of youth and children in kinship families. Including both caregivers and youth assists the family in negotiating changing family dynamics, roles, and expectations and aligns with the Two-Generation (2Gen) approach of supporting the family as a whole.

Sofia's Blog

Roles and responsibilities

The student intern is responsible for researching best practices in the field for supporting youth in a kinship family and creating a body of knowledge in order to plan programming. Additionally, the intern may assist with planning, development, and implementation of specific modules of intergenerational or youth-only focused workshops to complement the PASTA curriculum.

Qualifications and previous coursework

This opportunity is available to students in Cornell University's College of Human Ecology.

Applicants should have completed coursework in human development and family systems.

Learning outcomes

Subject area research
Program planning and implementation