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		Recruiting and Retaining Older African American and Hispanic Boys in After-School Programs: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn

by Tina J. Kauh June 2010, 17 pages Created in partnership with the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS), this GroundWork brief provides an overview of promising strategies for recruiting and retaining middle- and high-school-aged African-American and Hispanic males in after-school programs. To read the brief, click here.

		Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time

by Sarah N. Deschenes, Amy Arbreton, Priscilla M. Little, Carla Herrera, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Heather B. Weiss with Diana Lee April 2010, 90 pages This report details the findings from a joint P/PV-Harvard Family Research Project study that examined the practices and structural features of almost 200 out-of-school-time programs to identify the characteristics most successful in retaining older youth—as well as the strategies cities are using to support participation. The full report can be accessed here; an accompanying research synopsis can be found here.

		AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs

by Lauren J. Kotloff and Danijela Korom-Djakovic April 2010, 54 pages This report presents our analysis of the implementation of the AfterZone initiative—a citywide system-building effort in Providence, RI, that aims to provide high-quality, accessible out-of-school-time services to middle school youth. Click here to read the full report, or here to read the accompanying executive summary.

		Now Available: Updated After-School Resource Guide

P/PV has recently updated the online resource guide that accompanies Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens, a report commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. Click here to view new research and tools designed to strengthen after-school programs, particularly those serving preteens.

Recruiting and Retaining Older African American and Hispanic Boys in After-School Programs: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn
Created in partnership with the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS), this Groundwork brief provides an overview of promising strategies for recruiting and retaining middle- and high-school-aged African-American and Hispanic males in after-school programs.
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AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs
This report presents our analysis of the implementation of the AfterZone initiative—a citywide system-building effort in Providence, RI, that aims to provide high-quality, accessible out-of-school-time services to middle school youth.
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AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs Executive Summary
This executive summary draws from our analysis of the implementation of the AfterZone initiative—a citywide out-of-school-time system-building effort in Providence, RI.
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Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time
This report details the findings from a joint P/PV-Harvard Family Research Project study that examined the practices and structural features of almost 200 out-of-school-time programs to identify the characteristics most successful in retaining older youth—as well as the strategies cities are using to support participation.
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Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time, Research Synopsis
This Research Synopsis outlines the research strategies and methods employed in the study and explores the its main findings. Implications for future investment and policy decisions about out-of-school-time programming for older youth are also examined.
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Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School-Time Systems: A Six-City Study
This report examines the development of out-of-school-time systems in six cities across the country and summarizes the strategies and activities commonly pursued, their associated investments and options for financing such system-building efforts.
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Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School-Time Systems: A Six-City Study Synopsis
This synopsis highlights the main findings from Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School-Time Systems, which documents approaches six cities across the country are taking to build, finance and sustain effective citywide out-of-school time systems.
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The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Final Report
This report presents the findings from a random assignment study that tested whether providing additional academic structure and support during the first 45-minutes of an after-school program could produce better outcomes than more traditional services, such as homework help or tutoring.
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Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs' Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens
The third in a series of reports from P/PV's three-year study of the role Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of the youth they serve, Making Every Day Count examines how Club participation is related to youth's positive and healthy development in three outcome areas: good character and citizenship, academic success and healthy lifestyles.
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Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs' Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens Executive Summary
This executive summary highlights the main findings from P/PV's three-year study of the role Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of the youth, providing an overview of how Club participation is related to youths positive and healthy development in three outcome areas: good character and citizenship, academic success and healthy lifestyles.
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Paving the Way for Success in High School and Beyond: The Importance of Preparing Middle School Students for the Transition to Ninth Grade
The second brief in P/PV's GroundWork series presents an overview of issues surrounding the transition from middle school to ninth grade—its importance, associated challenges for youth and suggestions on easing the transition.
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The Cost of Quality Out-of-School-Time Programs
Based on detailed cost data collected from 111 out-of-school-time programs in six cities, this report explores what it costs to operate a high-quality after-school or summer program. Cost averages and ranges for many common types of programs are provided in the report, as well as in a companion online calculator.
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The Cost of Quality Out-of-School-Time Programs, Executive Summary
With support from The Wallace Foundation, P/PV partnered with The Finance Project to embark on one of the largest and most rigorous out-of-school-time (OST) cost studies to date. This executive summary highlights the full report's key findings, summarizes variations in program costs and provides recommendations for policymakers and funders who seek to build and sustain quality OST programs for children and youth in their communities.
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Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Childrens Health commissioned P/PV to write this report, which identifies characteristics of quality after-school programs that are linked to positive outcomes for preteens.
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More Time For Teens: Understanding Teen Participation—Frequency, Intensity and Duration—In Boys & Girls Clubs
Written midway through a three-year longitudinal evaluation of the role Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of the youth they serve, this report explores what it takes to involve teens in positive out-of-school-time activities. The executive summary can be found here.
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More Time For Teens: Understanding Teen Participation—Frequency, Intensity and Duration—In Boys & Girls Clubs Executive Summary
Using data captured at the mid-point of the evaluation, More Time for Teens explores what it takes to involve teens in out-of-school-time programs; the executive summary highlights the reports major findings and recommendations.
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Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative
This report presents the final outcomes of the CORAL initiative; findings point to a relationship between high-quality literacy programming and academic gains.
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What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After School
This brief highlights findings from Advancing Achievement; it informs those who seek to fund, design, and implement effective after-school programs.
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Supporting Success: Why and How to Improve Quality in After-School Programs
This report examines the strategies used to promote quality academic programming in the CORAL initiative; the authors make the case for after-school funders, advocates, intermediary organizations and practitioners to support investments in continuous program improvement.
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After-School Toolkit: Tips, Techniques and Templates for Improving Program Quality
The Toolkit provides a practical, hands-on guide for implementing high-quality literacy programming and supplies program managers with tools and techniques employed in the CORAL initiative.
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Gaining Ground: Supporting English Learners Through After-School Literacy Programming
This brief presents findings from the CORAL initiative that demonstrate a relationship between key approaches and the academic progress of English learners.
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Midcourse Corrections to a Major Initiative: A Report on The James Irvine Foundations CORAL Initiative
Midcourse Corrections to a Major Initiative draws lessons from the reorientation of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative.
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Quality Time After School In Brief
This issue of P/PV In Brief focuses on key findings—and their implications for policymakers and funders—from Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning.
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Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning
Quality Time After School identifies characteristics of after-school activities that are linked to youth engagement and learning. To read the accompanying executive summary, click here.
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Quality Time After School Executive Summary
This executive summary provides an overview of key findings from Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning.
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The Costs of Out-of-School-Time Programs: A Review of the Available Evidence
Part of the Out-of-School Time Cost Project, this report reviews a variety of studies conducted since 1993 to gain a broad understanding of what it costs to run out-of-school-time programs.
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Launching Literacy in After-School Programs: Early Lessons from the CORAL Initiative
This report describes the integration of literacy instruction into the CORAL after-school programs, located in five California cities. It includes early findings in terms of literacy gains and explores the program components likely to have contributed to these gains.
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Beyond Safe Havens: A Synthesis of 20 Years of Research on the Boys & Girls Clubs, Executive Summary
Based on a thorough review of past studies, this Executive Summary outlines the potential benefits provided by Boys & Girls Clubs, strategies that seem to have contributed to the Clubs successes, and challenges that may have impeded more positive results. It also describes P/PV's upcoming evaluation of the Clubs.
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Beyond Safe Havens: A Synthesis of 20 Years of Research on the Boys & Girls Clubs, Full Report
Based on a thorough review of past studies, this report outlines the potential benefits provided by Boys & Girls Clubs, strategies that seem to have contributed to the Clubs' successes, and challenges that may have impeded more positive results. It also describes P/PV's upcoming evaluation of the Clubs.
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Getting It Right: Strategies for After-School Success
This report synthesizes the last 10 years of findings from P/PV's and other researchers work to distill lessons for creating and managing after-school programs that stand the best chance producing specific, policy-relevant outcomes.
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Beacons In Brief
This second issue in the In Brief series focuses on the San Francisco Beacon Initiative and summarizes the key findings from P/PV's recent evaluation.
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After-School Pursuits: An Examination of Outcomes in the San Francisco Beacon Initiative
This report examines the quality of after-school activities, young peoples experiences, and academic and developmental outcomes in the San Francisco Beacon Initiative (SFBI).
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After-School Pursuits: The Executive Summary
This document summarizes the major findings from P/PV's After-School Pursuits: An Examination of Outcomes in the San Francisco Beacon Initiative.
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Increasing Opportunities for Older Youth in After-School Programs
Boys & Girls Clubs in New York City and Boston participated in a three-year initiative to enhance services for older, harder-to-reach youth. This report documents their experiences.
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Community Change for Youth Development: Ten Lessons from the CCYD Initiative
This report summarizes basic lessons from the Community Change for Youth Development (CCYD) initiative, which was designed to develop and institute a framework of "core concepts" to guide youth programming for the nonschool hours.
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Multiple Choices After School: Findings from the Extended-Service Schools Initiative
This report assists policymakers and program operators grappling with decisions about the goals, design and content of school-based after-school programs.
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Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention
Targeted Outreach examines two initiatives developed by Boys & Girls Clubs of America, in cooperation with local clubs, to address the problem of youth gangs in their communities.
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Mustering the Armies of Compassion in Philadelphia
A large and diverse group of independent faith-based organizations run the literacy program Youth Education for Tomorrow (YET). This report examines the programs start-up and results.
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Working Together to Build Beacon Centers in San Francisco: Evaluation Findings from 1998-2000
Working Together to Build Beacon Centers in San Francisco examines how the centers were created; it describes the centers operation; and investigates the role of the initiative's "theory of change" in organizing and guiding the effort.
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Community Change for Youth Development in Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri, is one of six sites in Community Change for Youth Development (CCYD), a national demonstration project aimed at increasing basic supports and opportunities available to youth aged 12-20. This report documents the experiences and challenges of the YMCA of Greater Kansas City in leading this community-based iniative.
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Challenges and Opportunities in After-School Programs: Lessons for Policymakers and Funders
School-based after-school programs are increasingly becoming the solution policymakers suggest for many youth problems but as this report describes, there are also many challenges that should be taken into consideration as programs are planned and funded.
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Extended-Service Schools: Putting Programming in Place
This interim evaluation report of the Wallace-Readers Digest Funds Extended-Service Schools Adaptation examines what it takes to get a community-oriented school-based youth program off the ground, the early challenges that can be expected, and how the ESS sites addressed their challenges.
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