Youth Development Research - After School:
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The Right Place for After-School: Lessons from Making Quality Count
A series of new reports reveal common themes in how communities and states can build quality improvement systems for out-of-school-time networks, and help make these interventions a key part of learning and development. Nicole Yohalem looks at the main take-aways. Learn more... -
California After School Network -- 7 easy steps to connect your region to the network.
* Access at http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/publications
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Campaign For Quality: Promising Practices from California’s After School Programs
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Credit Recovery Solutions Offered in After School Programs
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The California Afterschool Network recently released four publications that may be of interest:
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A Road Map to the California After School Landscape serves as an overview of the California After School landscape. It contains information on how to start after school programs in California, a brief history of the public funding streams in California, an overview of statewide and regional after school support organizations.
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Strengthening California's Rural After School Programs: A Summary of Recommendations and Implications of the California Rural After School Summit summarizes the recommendations put forward at the California Rural After School Summit in January 2010. The Summit highlighted the successes and challenges of rural after school programs, demonstrated the need for sustaining rural programs, and provided opportunity for participants to make recommendations to strengthen rural programs.
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21st CCLC High School ASSETs Program Start-Up is a practical program start-up guide for 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) After School Safety and Education for Teens (ASSETs) programs. The guide provides a starting point for strategic planning and intentional action; from knowing the scope of 21st CCLC programs and grant assurances, to program philosophy, program coordination, collaboration, staffing, scheduling and logistics.
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California Programa Para Después De La Escuela Instrumento De Autoevaluación De Calidad is a Spanish language version of the California After School Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool (QSA). The QSA Tool can be utilized in a staff directed process to self-assess after school programs and create a plan for continuous program improvement.
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- Out-of-School Time Publications and Resource --- Harvard Family Research Project
- April 2010 -- Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time
- April 2010 -- Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time
- 4-H Center for Youth Development: Monograph "Youth Development Frameworks" -- The monograph reviews the research literature specific to the frameworks and describes the strengths, limitations, and utility of each framework. Review in its entirety.
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A new Child Trends brief, Evidence-Based Programs in Action: Policy and Practice Insights from a Success Story, profiles the Partnership for Results, a model of local governance designed to implement a broad spectrum of evidence-based programs for the benefit of youth at risk. For a decade, it has operated in Cayuga County in Central New York. April 13, 2010
- Increasing Youth Participation in Out-of-School Time Programs -- Child Trends June 2008 Issue:
- Using Incentives to Increase Participation in Out-Of-School Time Programs
- Youth Governance Can Help Out-Of-School Time Programs Involve At-Risk Youth
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CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) is an evidence-based, coordinated school health program designed to promote physical activity and healthy food choices, and prevent tobacco use in children from preschool through grade 8. www.catchinfo.org
- Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health commissioned Public Private Venture to write this report, which identifies characteristics of quality after-school programs that are linked to positive outcomes for preteens. To read the full report, click here - The Seven Elements of High-Quality Service-Learning sample graph from "Service-Learning in Afterschool Programs" copyright © 1998 Service Learning 2000 Center. Adapted 2006 for Afterschool Programs
