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A Portrait of Preteens in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties: What We Know About 9- to 13-Year Olds

A Spectrum of Service: Combining Volunteerism and Paid Service: A Look at Roles and Relationships

A Spectrum of Service: Reaping the Benefits of Evaluation: Self Assessment in the Service Field

After-School Toolkit: Tips, Techniques and Templates for Improving Program Quality

Building Relationships: A Guide for New Mentors

By Design: Engaging Employers in Workforce Development Organizations

Community Change for Youth Development: Ten Lessons from the CCYD Initiative

Employment Retention Essentials

Fixing a Flat at 65 MPH: Restructuring Services to Improve Program Performance in Workforce Development

Getting Connected: Strategies for Expanding the Employment Networks of Low-Income People

Getting In, Staying On, Moving Up: A Practitioner's Approach to Employment Retention

Going to Work with a Criminal Record: Lessons from the Fathers at Work Initiative

Good Stories Aren't Enough: Becoming Outcomes-Driven in Workforce Development

Hard Work on Soft Skills: Creating a "Culture of Work" in Workforce Development

Hard Work on Soft Skills: Creating a "Culture of Work" in Workforce Development

Here to Stay: Tips and Tools to Hire, Retain and Advance Hourly-Wage Workers

How Community-Based Organizations Can Learn about the Needs and Strengths of Disconnected Young People: Hudson Guild of New York City's Youth Survey Effort

Job Development Essentials: A Guide for Job Developers, Second Edition

Locally Grown: Key Strategies for Expanding Workforce Services

Making the Most of Volunteers

Measuring the Quality of Mentor-Youth Relationships: A Tool for Mentoring Programs

Mentoring Former Prisoners: A Guide for Reentry Programs

Mentoring Formerly Incarcerated Adults: Insights from the Ready4Work Reentry Initiative

Mentoring Sexual Minority Youth

Navigating the Child Support System: Lessons from the Fathers at Work Initiative

netWORKS: A Guide to Expanding the Employment Networks of Low-Income People

Quality Time After School Executive Summary

Quality Time After School In Brief

Quality Time After School: What Instructors Can Do to Enhance Learning

Recruiting Mentors: A Guide to Finding Volunteers

Same Race and Cross Race Matching

Supporting Mentors

Supporting Youth Employment: A Guide for Community Groups

Surviving, and Maybe Thriving, on Vouchers

The Best of Both: Community Colleges and Community-Based Organizations Partner to Better Serve Low-Income Workers and Employers

The Plain Talk Implementation Guide

Training New Mentors

Unrealized Gains: How Workforce Organizations Can Put Money in the Pockets of Low-Wage Workers

Using Data for Success: Five Activities for Workforce Managers to Use with Frontline Staff

Walking the Plain Talk: A Guide for Trainers

What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After School

Working to Learn: Skills Development Under Work First

Working with Employers: Skills and Strategies for Job Development Success - Facilitator Guide

Working with Employers: Skills and Strategies for Job Development Success - Participant Workbook

WORKPlus: Developing Skills for Entry-Level Workers

Young Fathers Video and Workshop Guide


Getting It Right: Strategies for After-School Success

by Rebecca Raley, Jean Grossman and Karen E. Walker
September 2005, 45 pages


This report synthesizes the last 10 years of findings from P/PV's and other researchers' work to address one of the most demanding challenges facing today's after-school programs—how to create and manage programs that stand the best chance of producing specific, policy-relevant outcomes. It examines recruitment strategies that attract young people to activities, the qualities that make activities engaging and motivate participants to attend regularly, and the infrastructure—staffing, management and monitoring—needed to support such activities. The report's final chapter explores the fiscal realities of after-school programming, considering how administrators might stretch existing dollars to enhance services.

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