We have translated the Quality Standards into Spanish! We would like to give special thanks to Suzanne Hill and the Orange County Office of Education for translating the language for the Quality Standards. 

The purpose of the Quality Standards is to describe high levels of “Quality” of a program at the programmatic, staff, and participant levels. The quality standards are not intended to serve as a compliance tool, but as the following:

• A framework of clear expectations for all stakeholders.
• A guide to inform the After School Division’s decision-making, e.g., technical assistance decisions, language in requests for application, and policy development.
• A guide for program providers to assess their own programs in order to help determine what they are doing well and what needs improvement.
• A guide for parents and youth to identify quality programming.
• A guide for school principals and district superintendents to reinforce and advance key priorities.
• A complement to other standards in the State of California focused on quality improvement, e.g., Learning in After School and Summer, Quality Self-Assessment Tool, Quality Self-Assessment Rubric, Center for Youth Program Quality, etc.