Generations Online

Amarillo Senior Citizens hosts DII along with six other sites

Launched in 2009, the Digital Inclusion Initiative (DII) demonstrates that the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) can make a major impact on an unmet national need. Coming from all walks of life, more than 8,000 older adults have crossed America’s so-called digital divide, learning computer skills thanks to their own perseverance and one-on-one coaching by fellow older adults who are SCSEP participants.

In public settings including libraries, senior centers, faith-based organizations and community action agencies, some learners use a computer mouse for the very first time. Others master more advanced skills such as document creation. Whether they are using personal computers to communicate via email with friends and family, searching the Internet for important health and financial information, or hunting for employment, our DII coaches—mature, patient and positive—are there to serve them all.

Generations on Line (GoL), the program offered to Senior Citizens ages 45 and older   are offered Monday thru Friday, 8 am to 4 pm in the Media Center at ASCA.  Lessons are also available at the Mariposa Apartments for seniors in Amarillo Mondays and Fridays from 12 noon to 4 pm.  Sessions are 1 hour and are scheduled with the peer coaches for one on one training.

GoL is being offered to Senior Citizens in the other 48 counties of the Panhandle.  Satellite locations sponsored by the DII grant and ASCA are in Childress, Dumas, Lubbock and Plainview.

Since the program’s inception in November of 2009, over 1,000 individual GoL computer sessions have been provided to more than 500 Panhandle senior citizens.

For more information on the GoL computer training, please contact Jenny Clark in the ASCA office at 806-374-5500 or http://www.generationsonline.com.