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Beyond the Head Count: Evaluating Family Involvement in Out-of-School Time

This issue brief offers an overview of how out-of-school time programs involve families and how programs can evaluate family involvement.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Harvard Family Research Project
resource research Public Programs

Community Programs to Promote Youth Development

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for today's adolescents? How can we ensure that programs are designed to successfully meet young people's developmental needs and help them become healthy, happy, and productive adults? Community Programs to Promote Youth Development explores these questions, focusing on essential elements of adolescent well-being and healthy development. It
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jacquelynne Eccles Jennifer Gootman
resource evaluation Public Programs

Design It! Building Design Challenges in After School Programs: Final Evaluation Report

Design It! Building Design Challenges in After School Programs, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a collaboration between the Education Development Center (EDC), the National Institute for Out-of-School Time (NIOST) and science centers/museums and after school programs located in community-based organizations (CBOs) in six cities. The project's primary goal was to improve the quality of programming in after school programs by establishing long term relationships between science centers/museums and after school programs and developing, incorporating and institutionalizing hands-on
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TEAM MEMBERS: Patricia Campbell Education Development Center Lesley Perlman Earl Hadley