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Youth Engagement Through Schools: After-School Programs
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This section provides links to several web-based documents defining and describing after-school programs. These documents describe the many potential programs that can be organized in schools and in the community after school.
Also see pages on Peer Helper Programs, Student Leadership Programs and Student Clubs/Sports Programs for specific types of after-school programs.
Explanations, Evidence, Planning/Best Practices Guides, Assessment /Evaluation Tools, Online Training/Training Programs, Programs/Materials, Examples
Explanations (Summaries, Articles, Fact Sheets)
Out of School Time: Theory and Practice (Harvard Family Research
Project)
Educational Leadership
(ASCD)
Child Care After Hours (Today's Parents)
Critical Hours
(Nellie Mae Education Foundation)
Out-of-School Youth Development Programs for Young Adolescents
(National Institute on Out-of-School Time Center for Research on
Women)
The Promise of After-School Programs (Educational Leadership)
What
Works: Components of Exemplary After-School Programs (US
Department of Education)
Enriching Children's Out-of-School Time. ERIC Digest (ERIC
Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education)
The
Benefits of Schools as Community Learning Centers (US Department
of Education)
Evaluating Municipal Out-of-School Time Initiatives
(Harvard Family Research Project)
After-School
Programs that Promote Child and Adolescent Development (The
National Academies Press)
Beyond the Basic
(Harvard Family Research Project)
The Evaluation Exchange Special Report on the 21st Century Community
Learning Centers Program National Evaluation (Harvard Family
Research Project)
Learning From Evaluation: Lessons From After School Evaluation in
Texas (Harvard Family Research Project)
United Way Task Force Call for Improved Access
to
Community Spaces (United Way)
Opening the Doors: Making the Most of Community Space (United
Way)
Children's School Readiness is Influenced by their Neighbourhood
(Human Resources Development Canada)
Centre for
Studies of Children at Risk
Characteristic: Climate for Inclusion (North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory)
After-School Programs (AskERIC)
Moving an Out-of-School Agenda (The Forum for Youth Investment)
Promoting Positive Youth Development as a Support to Academic
Achievement (After-School for All Partnership)
Urban After-School Programs: Evaluations and Recommendations. ERIC
Digest (ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education)
Financing School-Age Out-Of-School Time Programs with Welfare
Related Funding (Welfare Information Network)
Evaluations to Watch (Harvard Family Research Project)
Supporting Effective After School Programs: The Contribution of
Developmental Research (Harvard Family Research Project)
Planning/Best Practices Guides
Resources
for After-School Programming
(North Central Regional Educational Laboratory)
Beyond the Bell: A Toolkit for Creating Effective After-school Programs
(North Central Regional Educational Laboratory)
A
Guide to Continuous Improvement Management
(US Department of Education)
Promising Practices (Harvard Family Research Project)
Promising Practices (Harvard Family Research Project)
Does Youth Participation in Out-of-School Time Activities Make a
Difference? (Harvard Family Research Project)
Afterschool Action Kit (Afterschool Alliance)
Principals and
After School Programs (Belden Russonello & Steward)
Afterschool.gov
Characteristic: Coordination With the Regular School Day Learning
Program and Community Partners
(North Central Regional Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Community Partnerships (North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Recreational Programming (North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Focus on At-Risk Students ((North Central
Regional Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Culturally Sensitive Climate (North Central
Regional Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Facilities Management (North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Funding (North Central Regional Educational
Laboratory)
Characteristic: Safe and Health Environment (North Central
Regional Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Leadership and Governance (North Central
Regional Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Parent Involvement (North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Evaluation Design (North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory)
Characteristic: Linkages Between After-School, Regular School, and
Community Partner Personnel (North Central Regional Educational
Laboratory)
Characteristic: Volunteers (North Central Regional Educational
Laboratory)
Annotated
Bibliography (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory)
Financing and Sustaining Out-of-School Time and Community School
Initiatives (Out-of-School Time Project)
Planning and Operating
After-School Programs (SEDL)
Assessment /Evaluation Tools
Soaring Beyond
Expectations (21st Century Community Learners)
Annual Performance
Report (US Department of Education)
Promising Practices (Harvard Family Research Project)
Evaluating the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program - A
View From the States (Harvard Family Research Project)
Improving Bradenton's After School Programs Through
Utilization-Focused Evaluation (Harvard Family Research Project)
The
Challenges and Strategies of Evaluating Community - Wide After
School Programs (Harvard Family Research Project)
Logic Models in Out-of-School Time (Harvard Family Research
Project)
The Out-of-School-Time Program Evaluation Database (Harvard
Family Research Project)
Resources and Publications (Harvard Family Research Project)
Beyond the Head Count. Evaluating Family Involvement in
Out-of-School Time (Harvard Family Research Project)
Why, When and How To Use Evaluation (Harvard Family Research
Project)
Learning from Logic Models In Out-Of-School Time (Harvard Family
Research Project)
Demonstrating Progress and Results
(Harvard Family Research Project)
Online Training/Training Programs
Beyond the Basic
(Harvard Family Research Project)
Bringing Yourself to Work: Caregiving in After-School Environments
(Bringing Yourself to Work)
Sears/Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada
After-School Grant Programs (RBC Financial Group)
Company
Grants (State
Farm Insurance)
After School Programs in Vancouver (Pieta Goudron)
HIGH FIVE
recognized by province as quality standard (Park & Recreation
Ontario)
Current Programs (Frontier College at the University of PEI)
Programs (21st Century
Community Learning Centers)
Child Care
Bureau Promotes Linkages that Support School-Age Child Care
(Child Care Bulletin)
This
summary has been prepared with funding provided by the
Population
Health Fund, Health Canada
Key Resources