Resources
Family And Neighborhood Risks: How They Relate to Involvement in Out-Of-School Time Activities
This Child Trends study analyzes family and community data for children ages 6 to 17 from the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health and finds that nearly half of children in high-risk families are not involved in any out of school time activity regardless of neighborhood risk level. While children from all levels of neighborhood risk that do not have high risk families participate in out of school activities at much higher rates.
After School Programs in the 21st Century
The latest “Issues and Opportunities in Out-of-School Time Evaluation” research brief from Harvard Family Research Project draws on seminal research and evaluation studies to address two primary questions: (a) Does participation in after school programs make a difference, and, if so (b) what conditions appear to be necessary to achieve positive results? The 12-page brief concludes with a set of questions to spur conversation about the evolving role of after school in efforts to expand opportunities for children and youth.
Outcome Evaluation: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Practitioners
This Child Trends brief provides a basic review of outcome evaluations, discusses why they are important and when they are useful, and discusses ways they can be implemented in out-of-school time programs. The brief also highlights the experience of an out-of-school time program that has conducted an outcome evaluation and provides a list of helpful evaluation resources.
Effective Data Collection Methods for Work With Preteens
The Preteen Alliance commissioned Education Training Research (ETR) to review eight common methods used to collect data from children ages 9 to 13, including surveys (computer-based, PDAs, paper and pencil), diaries, interviews (phone, in person, focus groups), and observational methods.
Using Quality Rating Systems in After School Programs
Afterschool Investments recently posted the strategy brief Using Quality Rating Systems to Promote Quality in Afterschool Programs. This strategy brief examines using a state quality rating system to assess after school programs and promote after school program quality. The brief provides access to quality rating system resources, factors of quality in school-age-care settings, overviews how to make a quality rating system work for after school programs, and strategies for aligning a quality rating system with broader after school professional development efforts.
Building Professional Development Systems for the Afterschool Field
Afterschool Investments recently released this publication, which provides a snapshot of state and local approaches to building professional development systems for school age care professionals, highlighting the shared challenges these systems face and the common components of sustainable professional development systems.
Afterschool Programs: Helping Kids Compete in Tomorrow’s Workforce
Afterschool Alliance (brief)
An Opportunity for After-School Programming? Youth-led Evaluation
Jennifer Gong Ph.D., Youth In Focus, Powerpoint Presentation
Quality Assessment and Improvement in Youth Programs
Nicole Yohalem’s Powerpoint Presentation, Quality Assessment Workshop
Afterschool Programs: Keeping Kids – and Communities – Safe.
This issue brief examines the relationship between after-school programs and community safety, provides data on the role of after-school programs in stemming youth crime, cites law enforcement sources and provides information on innovative programs that municipal governments are embracing to create safer, stronger communities.
Infrastructure Development for Afterschool Providers
The Afterschool Investments project recently released “Linking and Learning: Lessons for Afterschool from Early Childhood System-Building Efforts,” which outlines lessons learned from the early childhood movement and how those lessons can be applied to afterschool program and infrastructure development, including brief case studies and examples.
Resource Note: Improving State Coordination of Development Services
This Resource Note highlights strategies and initiatives that state policymakers, program officials, and other leaders can use to improve the coordination and funding of youth workforce development programs.
Helping Youth Succeed Through Out-of-School Time Programs
The report reviews and summarizes literature on out-of-school time program quality and identifies a number of program characteristics that seem to be successful in helping young people develop academic, workforce, and life-skills. The report offers recommendations to policy makers and practitioners to support and sustain high quality out-of-school time opportunities for older youth.
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