21st Century Community Learning Centers

The After-school Exchange - Afterschool Exchange is an in-person and online project that aims to make the educational resources of public television available and useful to afterschool staff. Find out more about the mission and history of the Afterschool Exchange visit their website.

Afterschool.gov - Connecting you to federal resources that support children and youth during out-of-school hours. This site contains information on running programs, planning activities, kid-teen websites and community link.
Afterschool.gov Newsletters and list servs - Maintain lists of current after school newsletters and list servs. For more information visit their Newsletters and List Servs

The Afterschool Corporation - works in partnership with education city and state officials, and community based organizations to create a network of quality after school programs. TASC funds nonprofit groups to operate after school programs in public schools and provides ongoing training and technical assistance to program staff.
AFTER-SCHOOL TIMES Newsletter

Camps A-Z - The place to be, for your free online guide to kids' camps in Arizona! Looking for things for your kids to do during school break? Camps A to Z has the most complete information available. You'll find: hundreds of listings, activities for kids from tots to teens options throughout Arizona.

Creative Communities - The mission of Creative Communities is to expand access to serious, progressive instruction in the performing, literary and visual arts for children and youth living in public housing communities in order to improve their quality of life and promote skills leading to greater self-sufficiency.

Creative Partnership for Prevention - The goal of this national initiative is to provide current information, ideas, and resources on how to use the arts and humanities to enhance drug and violence prevention programming, foster resiliency in youth, and implement collaborations within communities to strengthen prevention programs for youth.

The Forum for Youth Investment - The Forum for Youth Investment (the Forum) is dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement by promoting a "big picture" approach to planning, research, advocacy and policy development among the broad range of organizations that help constituents and communities invest in children, youth and families. The web site contains papers, articles, editorials, written and PowerPoint presentations and much more.
Newsletter - Forum Focus - The Forum for Youth Investment newsletter. If you would like to subscribe to Forum Focus and receive an email announcing each issue, please send a request for more information to us at youth@forumforyouthinvestment.org.

Harvard Family Research Project Family-School-Community Partnerships - This project, based on the premise that family involvement is critical to children's social development and academic achievement, seeks to support the development of sustainable family-school-community partnerships.

How the Arts Can Enhance After-School Programs - Presented by the U.S. Department of Education and National Endowment for the Arts, this report provides a brief introduction to the role of the arts in those programs. It consists of a brief summary of recent research findings about both arts and after-school programs, a description of the key elements of successful programs and some key examples that showcase partnerships between schools and community-based organizations.

Mentor After-School Program Clearinghouse - The clearinghouse is designed to provide after-school coordinators with the tools and resources they need to add a mentoring component to their programs. It also provides resources on how to implement, manage and strengthen after-school programs.

National Center for Community Education - Their mission is "To provide state-of-the-art leadership development training and technical assistance focusing on community and educational change emphasizing community schools"

The National Collaboration for Youth - is pleased to provide the attached Partnerships for After-School Success toolkits. The toolkits provide research supporting the need for school-CBO partnerships; successful strategies for creating and sustaining partnerships; and checklists and tools. Though the information is similar in both packets; one is specifically written for community-based organizations and the other is for local education agencies and state education agencies.

National Youth Development Information Center - Partnerships for After-School Success toolkits. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation provided funding to National Assembly/National Collaboration for Youth to create these resources. The toolkits provide research supporting the need for school-CBO partnerships; successful strategies for creating and sustaining partnerships; and checklists and tools

Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation Bibliography - The Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) Out-of-School Time (OST) Program Evaluation Database is a compilation of profiles written by HFRP of evaluations of OST programs and initiatives. It provides accessible information about evaluation work of both large and small OST programs to support the development of high quality evaluations and programs in the out-of-school time field. Programs are categorized by program type. Program type can refer to a method of service delivery or a primary program goal.

Promising Practices in Afterschool - The Promising Practices in After-school (or "PPAS") System is an effort to find and share things that are working in after-school programs. The PPAS website is for after-school program directors who want to improve the quality of their programs. All sorts of other people will find it useful, too--people like program staff, volunteers, parents, community members, policymakers, funders, researchers, and anyone else who cares about children and youth. Newsletter Listings

Promising Practices List of listservs and newsletters for Afterschool Resources - The Promising Practices in Afterschool (PPAS) Listserv brings together the worlds of youth development, school-age care, and education. On the PPAS website, www.afterschool.org, you can search for promising practices and share your own good work with others to help build the field of afterschool.

Safe and Drug Free Schools Program

School Age Care List - an on-line discussion for people interested in school-age care planning, resources, activities, funding, staff and staff development, and related subjects. It is co-owned by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College and by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education.

School Age Notes - paid membership monthly newsletter, geared to school-age care professionals. Includes: curriculum ideas for after school & summer programs, discussion forums, professional development, articles on conflict resolution, funding and resources.

YouthLearn - Created by the Morino Institute and led by the Education Development Center, the YouthLearn Initiative offers comprehensive services and resources for using technology to create exciting learning environments to teachers, afterschool program providers and other youth development professionals. The YouthLearn web site offers extensive, easy to follow education materials including planning guides, teaching techniques, activities and projects.
YouthLearn Newsletter: This newsletter is produced by the YouthLearn Initiative at EDC especially for members of the YouthLearn discussion group. YouthLearn is a project of the nonprofit Education Development Center, Inc. Designed for youth-development professionals, teachers, educators, and other caring adults, YouthLearn provides resources and tools for developing effective learning programs enhanced with technology, particularly in out-of-school settings. To subscribe or unsubscribe go to http://www.youthlearn.org/join/subscribe.html

Youth Venture - Youth Venture is a national non-profit organization that empowers young people ages 12-20 by providing them all the tools necessary to create civic-minded organizations, clubs or businesses.

Americans for the Arts Youth At Risk

YouthARTS - The YouthARTS site is designed to give arts agencies, juvenile justice agencies, social service organizations, and other community-based organizations detailed information about how to plan, run, provide training, and evaluate arts programs for at-risk youth.