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This program is a key component of No Child Left Behind, and it provides academic enrichment opportunites, such as tutorial services to meet local and state academic subject standards, along with other programs for children attending low performance school.

www.ed.gov/programs/21stcclc

A non-profit resource and information center for child care and early learning that provides resources such as summaries of the characteristics of OST, adolscents, school age, and summer programs.

www.actionforchildren.org

The Secondary School Redesign Project website at the Council for Chief State School Officers includes the Adolescent Literacy Toolkit. The toolkit was developed by the Council and its partners. It contains resources for states and teachers related to developing state-level professional development activities and integrating literacy strategies and best practices in core content areas. To access this resource, click here.

Ensures that all youth have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs by the year 2010.

www.afterschoolalliance.org

Provides technical assistance to Child Care and Development Fund grantees and other State and local leaders supporting afterschool efforts.

www.nccic.org/afterschool

Afterschool PRO offers an online clearinghouse with resources for afterschool professionals, as well as features like free downloadable research reports, listings of organizations serving afterschool programs and links to archived presentations and handouts from previous conferences and workshops.

www.afterschoolpro.net

Afterschool.gov is designed to be accessible by parents, providers and/or youth in order to obtain government resources and funding opportunites that support after school programs.

www.afterschool.gov

ASAPconnect links after school programs with assistance providers to facilitate effective regional partnerships, expand after school program capabilities, and improve program quality.

http://www.afterschoolconnect.org

BAM! Body and Mind is an online destination for kids created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Designed for kids 9-13 years old, BAM! Body and Mind gives them the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices. The site focuses on topics that kids told CDC are important to them - such as stress and physical fitness - using kid-friendly lingo, games, quizzes, and other interactive features.

www.bam.gov

Provides assistance with planning and writing 21st CCLC grants. Get information about best practices and model programs from around the state. Create connections with program partners.

www.bayareapartnership.org

Resources for after school programs including exemplary practices, sample budgets, early release policies, sample contracts, sample memorandum of understanding (mou), as well as high school resources.

www.bayareapartnership.org/asi/asi-tools.htm

Boston After School & Beyond advocates the power of out-of-school time (OST) in youth development and marshals a range of resources in an effort to serve children.

www.bostonbeyond.org

Engages communities and builds their capacity to improve the nutrition and physical activity status of California’s low income African-American, American Indian, Latino, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander youth 10-14 years old.

www.canfit.org

Find access to multiple free training modules including health and nutrition, first aid and hygiene, staff development, and quality improvement systems training. These trainings are free and can be scheduled for your site. Click on the training tab on the link below.
http://www.californiaafterschool.org/

The primary duty of the California Career Resource Network is to distribute career information, resources, and training materials to middle school and high school counselors, educators, and administrators, in order to ensure that middle schools and high schools have the necessary information available to provide a pupil with guidance and instruction on education and job requirements necessary for career development.

www.californiacareers.info

Resources for parents, child care providers, and access licensed child care facilities by county throughout California,
http://www.rrnetwork.org/

This site provides recourses for educators and a lending library that gives curriculum to educators.

http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/directory/educate.html

Programmatic and fiscal resources to build, implement, and sustain quality before and after school programs, including school-age care and other out-of-school opportunities for children and youth.

www.cde.ca.gov

Gives teacher tools to help better educate students on fire and forest protection.

http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/communications_teacherstools.php

Resources to protect and promote California’s health, where we all can live, grow and prosper in clean and safe communities.

www.dhs.ca.gov

This site provides curriculum that offers accurate and current waste management information. Implementing "reduce, reuse, and recycle", not only in the class but at home as well.

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Schools/Curriculum/default.htm

Access information on the complete California Legilature including the Senate and Assembly, committees, calendars, links to legislative websites and a citizen's guide to the legislative process.

www.legislature.ca.gov

CSBA develops, communicates and advocates the perspective of California school districts and county offices of education.

http://www.csba.org/

Offer training, resources, advocacy, and information to help you in your vital work with kids.

www.calsac.org