Afterschool
Resources
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Afterschool Resources
These
resources can assist educators in promoting effecctive
practices in developing and implementing after-school
programs.
Getting
It Right: Strategies for After-School Success
(pdf)
This
guide synthesizes 10 years of findings from
Public/Private Ventures and other researchers'
work on selected after-school programs. It disucsses
how to run effective after-school programs that
are funded to produce specific policy-relevant
outcomes. The recommendations are most suited
to programs that intend to produce measurable
benefits in young people who are at risk of
adverse outcomes. The following areas are discussed:
(1) the right goals, (2) the right youth, (3)
the right stuff, (4) the right period of time
(i.e., participation), (5) the right management
choices, and finally (6) how these factors work
together.
4-H
Afterschool Resource Guide - Increasing
the Quantity of After-School Programs: A Guide
for Extension Professionals to Establish Community-Based
After-School Programs (pdf)
This
guide from the National 4-H Council provides
many details for starting an after-school program
using a community-managed model. In this model,
concerned individuals and groups organize to
address the need for after-school programs in
a community, with an Extension educator serving
as the facilitator. This guide may be downloaded
or purchsed from the 4-H supply catalog.
Focus
on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered
Practices in After School (pdf)
The
purpose of this guide is to help after-school
programs become more effective in their efforts
to engage families after school to benefit children's
social development, informal learning, and academic
growth. It presents current research on the
benefits and challenges of engaging families
after school, describes four strategies to use
in engaging families, and presents program profiles
of programs actively working to engage families
in this manner.
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Harvard Family Research Project National
Out-of-School Time Evaluation Database
The
Harvard Family Research Project's (HFRP) Out-of-School
Time (OST) Program Evaluation Database is a compilation
of 105 profiles of evaluations of OST programs.
It provides accessible information about evaluation
work of both large and small OST programs to support
the development of high quality evalutaions and
programs in the out-of-school time field.
Access
the entire HFRP Evaluation Database
• After-School Curriculum
Resources
Click
here for the After-School
Curriculum Resources page. This page contains
links to other 4-H and land-grant university web
pages that contain curriculum suitable for after-school
programs.
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Other Afterschool Links:
4-H
Afterschool website (National 4-H Council)
4-H
Afterschool items may be ordered at the 4-H
Mall.
4-H
Afterschool Newsletter (National 4-H Council)
This
site last updated 06.02.2006.
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