Experience Corps® is the groundbreaking program that engages Americans 55-plus in vital public and community service. Today more than 1,000 Experience Corps members serve as tutors and mentors to children in urban public schools in a dozen cities across the country. Experience Corps members help teach children to read and develop the confidence and skills to succeed in school and in life. more>> Johns Hopkins University, together with the Greater Homewood Community Corporation and the Baltimore  City schools, and Civic Ventures (a non-profit corporation in San Francisco, CA), has developed a volunteer service program for older persons called the Experience Corps Baltimore. This is a service program and at the same time, being evaluated to determine if this new model of senior service improves the educational outcomes of children in elementary schools in Baltimore, as well as the health and functional status of older adults. more>>
Experience Corps is more than a community service project. It is also a rigorously structured program designed to bring significant benefits to seniors' health and well-being.
The center recently published six reports in the Journal of Urban Health that highlight the beneficial effects of the Experience Corps program. Also recently published is an article in the German publication GGW - Das Wissenschaaftsforum in Gesundheit und Gesellschaft on Experience Corps. You can read their abstracts and download their full versions. | 
