Virtual Workshop

This workshop is a recording of a Network Older Youth Committee meeting featuring Dr. Robert Halpern (meeting topic and bio listed below). Not all Older Youth Committee Meetings are recorded and posted. To participate in these meetings you must be a member of the Older Youth Committee.

Powerpoint Presentation
Robert Halpern Presentation to the Older Youth Committee

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Workshop Summary

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Background

On this 60 minute call, Policy Committee Co-chairs offered an update on recent issues related to State and Federal budgets and policy. To access audio from this call click the play button above.

Topics covered included:

On March 17, 2009 the Network Quality Committee hosted the Making a Difference in After School - Measuring and Improving After School Programs workshop in Sacramento, CA. The workshop featured Robert C. Granger; President of the W.T. Grant Foundation and Nicole Yohalem; Program Director for the Forum for Youth Investment. The workshop focused on what is known about the ability of after-school programs to make a difference on academic and other outcomes, how leading researchers are defining and measuring program quality, and how practitioners and policy makers at the state and local levels are building systems aimed at improving quality. Much of the workshop content addressed the California After School Programs Quality Self Assessment tool specifically.

This is a video of the Sacramento Lights On Afterschool event on October 16, 2008. Lights On Afterschool (LOA), a project of the Afterschool Alliance, is celebrated nationwide to honor the importance of after school programs for America's children, families and communities. This year the 9th annual Lights on Afterschool will be held on October 16, 2008. Last year over one million Americans celebrated Lights on Afterschool at over 7,500 nationwide events.

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On Thursday, October 23, 2008 the California Afterschool Network Policy Committee hosted a Policy Update telephone workshop. Network Policy Committee Co-Chairs Brian Lee, Deputy Director of Fight Crime Invest in Kids California, and Jennifer Peck, Executive Director of the Bay Area Partnership for Children and youth offered an overview of policy related to Proposition 49 (ASES) after school funding in the previous legislative session, reviewed the recent veto of AB 1526 which would have eliminated guaranteed ASES funding, and discussed the potential future of proposition 49.

On July 28, 2008 Network Policy Committee Co-Chair Brian Lee, Deputy Director of the California offices of Fight Crime Invest In Kids offered a telephone workshop updating participants on the latest in California after school policy. In the workshop Mr.

Cheri Chord and Judith Shotwell offered a telephone workshop on science and math enrichment activities. The Exploratorium has received a grant to bring science and math enrichment activities into out-of-school time.

On April 11, 2008, the California Afterschool Network hosted a workshop at the CalSAC Conference featuring Jerry Hipps and Marycruz Diaz, authors of the recent WestEd After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens (ASSETs) Program Evaluation.

This free telephone workshop featured Bonnie Benard, renowned youth development expert and author who defined youth development, and shared strategies for implementing youth development in after school programs. Bonnie was joined by Bob Cabeza, Executive Director for the YMCA of greater long beach and 26 year youth development professional, as well as Trisha Beverly, veteran classroom teacher and current after school site program coordinator providing enrichment to youth participants and youth tutors in a rural Mendocino County District.

Suzanne Stiegelbauer from Southwest Educational Development 
Laboratory (SEDL) discussed their National Partnership for Quality, and the myriad of after school curriculum resources in Math, Science, Literacy, Art, Homework, and Technology as well as afterschool training toolkits for staff that can be obtained on the SEDL website.

To view SEDL online toolkits which will be discussed in this telephone workshop, visit www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits

This call-in workshop featured Erika Argersinger, Policy Director for the Afterschool Alliance, Steve Amick, Executive Director of the League of California Afterschool Providers (LCAP) and Jennifer Peck, Executive Director of the Bay Area Partnership for Children and Youth. The speakers offered a summary of proposed changes to after school funding and policy at the state and federal level followed by a question and answer session.

Annie Nogg, Project Coordinator for the California School-Age Consortium, was joined by Deirdre Corwin and Jessica Osborne, urban and rural after school program site directors to discuss how to access CalSAC's free training resources, what types of training are offered, and how after school practitioners have utilized CalSAC training to improve their programs.

The Research Speaker Workshop held at UCLA on January 24, 2008 featured Denise Huang Ph.D. (UCLA) spoke about her participation in the recently released Department of Justice longitudinal study regarding the positive impact of the L.A.'s BEST after school program on juvenile crime rates, and Professor Deborah Vandell (UCI) spoke about her recently released study on the academic and social benefits of eight nationwide after school programs. The event also featured a focused question and answer session.