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Afterschool Tools and Resources
| New Strategy Guide on Strengthening Partnerships and Building Public Will for Out-of-School Time Programs (2010)
With support from the Wallace Foundation, the YEF Institute has developed a new strategy guide on Strengthening Partnerships and Building Public Will for Out-of-School Time Program. The guide describes three key strategies that city leaders can use to generate support for access to high-quality out-of-school time activities. It highlights a broad range of examples of how cities have successfully implemented each strategy, from partnerships with universities to coordinated communications plans.
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The State of City Leadership for Children and Families: Innovations and Trends in Afterschool (2009)
The State of City Leadership for Children and Families is a groundbreaking new report from NLC's Institute for Youth, Education, and Families that identifies the nation's most cutting-edge city strategies to help children and families thrive.
This chapter highlights the broad range of innovations and trends in municipal leadership around afterschool.
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Financial Strategies to Support Citywide Systems of Out-of-School Time Programs (2009)
This strategy guide, made possible by support from The Wallace Foundation, describes several options that city officials may consider for supporting and sustaining local programs. These options include: creating dedicated, local funding streams; making better use of existing funding streams; maximizing state and federal funding sources; and strengthening collaborative efforts.
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Cities and Statewide Afterschool Networks Partnering to Support Afterschool (2009)
This guide, published with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, features examples of how municipal leaders are working with the 38 statewide afterschool networks to influence state afterschool funding and policies and to strengthen local programs. It focuses on several areas in which cities and state networks can make a significant impact together: joint efforts to increase state funding and support; improving program quality; building public support for afterschool; and strengthening local partnerships.
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The Afterschool Hours: A New Focus For America's Cities (2005)
This report highlights strategies and insights from the eight cities that participated in the YEF Institute's Municipal Leadership for Expanding Learning Opportunities technical assistance project.
The project describes the efforts of Charlotte, N.C.; Fort Worth, Texas; Fresno, Calif.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Lincoln, Neb.; Spokane, Wash.; and Washington, D.C., and provides lessons emerging from these cities' experiences, contact information for project team leads, a list of collaborating organizations that participated in the project, and further resources on improving public schools.
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Assessing Local Afterschool Resources and Needs (2003)
This strategy guide outlines six clear steps that city leaders should consider when conducting a needs assessment of local afterschool programs: defining goals, focus, and scope of assessment efforts; developing multiple ways to gauge family needs; using survey and mapping techniques; exploring multiple uses of compiled data; looking for partners in survey design, data collection and analysis; and sustaining assessment efforts over time.
This brief strategy guide also provides examples of how some communities have successfully responded to this challenge.
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Strengthening Families in America's Cities: Afterschool Programs (2003)
Research findings published in this report are from NLC's Strengthening Families in America's Cities Survey of municipal officials, which examined issues affecting children and families in American cities and towns.
The study finds that afterschool programs are a top priority for municipal officials; cities of all sizes have increased their investment in afterschool programs; there are several areas in which improvements can be made in municipal involvement; and an increased number of cities are not yet involved in afterschool.
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Action Kit on Expanding Afterschool Opportunities (2002)
This action kit illustrates the many ways in which municipal leaders can craft a strategy to expand afterschool opportunities, and in the process, advance the goals of public safety, academic achievement, and youth development in their cities.
The kit describes roles that city leaders can play in promoting partnerships, building public will, assessing local needs and resources, improving quality, broadening access, and financing a citywide system, and also includes a broad range of city examples, facts, and further resources.
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Audioconference Transcripts
The YEF Institute's monthly audioconference series features talk-show style discussions between Institute staff, national experts, and city leaders to highlight best practices in a broad range of program areas. The Institute makes transcripts of these calls available for local officials who are unable to dial into the calls.
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