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This qualitative grounded theory study addresses what it means to be intergenerational in a community-based art and literacy program (ALP) in a shelter for families who are homeless and mothers who are addicts. Situated within a social constructionist perspective, we investigated how these women occupied the physical and social spaces within the shelter and ALP when interacting with their children and other program participants during activities. In the data analysis, three salient aspects of the program participants’ positionalities emerged and families’ positive transformations despite restricted physical movement and social contact were further discussed in light of these findings. Data were collected from interviews, debriefings, analytic memos and journal entries to employ a grounded theory methodology.