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Resource Guide to Improve After-School Programs |
This is a companion guide to the report,
Putting It All Together: Guiding
Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens.
 About
This Guide
Who is this guide for?
This resource guide is intended primarily for practitioners, including
agency directors, program managers and program staff.
What is the purpose of this guide?
This guide provides resources for creating and expanding programs, program
quality improvement and proposal development.
How is this guide organized?
The guide is organized around the six principles for after-school program
quality outlined in Putting
It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs
Serving Preteens, commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation
for Children's Health. The principles were developed by Public/Private
Ventures (P/PV) and were based on research about after-school programs
that have been shown to have positive associations with emotional and
behavioral outcomes for participants, along with lessons learned by the
Foundation.
Guiding Principles:
- Focused and Intentional Strategy
(target specific skills, well-planned)
- Exposure (duration, intensity
and breadth)
- Supportive Relationships
- Family Engagement
- Cultural Competence
- Continuous Program Improvement
(targeted staff training, monitoring and coaching, data collection and
analysis)
What will you find in this guide?
For each of the six principles this guide provides: 1) a description,
2) examples of what the principle looks like in action, and 3) links to
the relevant research and "how-to" guides for strengthening
the principle. The sixth principle, Continuous Program Improvement, includes
an overview of assessment tools, an important component of the improvement
process. The guide also provides some general resources for strengthening
program quality, including, books, articles, organizations and websites.
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