Educational Resources

A non-profit resource and information center for child care and early learning that provides resources such as summaries of the characteristics of OST, adolscents, school age, and summer programs.

www.actionforchildren.org

The Secondary School Redesign Project website at the Council for Chief State School Officers includes the Adolescent Literacy Toolkit. The toolkit was developed by the Council and its partners. It contains resources for states and teachers related to developing state-level professional development activities and integrating literacy strategies and best practices in core content areas. To access this resource, click here.

Ensures that all youth have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs by the year 2010.

www.afterschoolalliance.org

Provides technical assistance to Child Care and Development Fund grantees and other State and local leaders supporting afterschool efforts.

www.nccic.org/afterschool

Afterschool PRO offers an online clearinghouse with resources for afterschool professionals, as well as features like free downloadable research reports, listings of organizations serving afterschool programs and links to archived presentations and handouts from previous conferences and workshops.

www.afterschoolpro.net

Afterschool.gov is designed to be accessible by parents, providers and/or youth in order to obtain government resources and funding opportunites that support after school programs.

www.afterschool.gov

BAM! Body and Mind is an online destination for kids created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Designed for kids 9-13 years old, BAM! Body and Mind gives them the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices. The site focuses on topics that kids told CDC are important to them - such as stress and physical fitness - using kid-friendly lingo, games, quizzes, and other interactive features.

www.bam.gov

Provides assistance with planning and writing 21st CCLC grants. Get information about best practices and model programs from around the state. Create connections with program partners.

www.bayareapartnership.org

Resources for after school programs including exemplary practices, sample budgets, early release policies, sample contracts, sample memorandum of understanding (mou), as well as high school resources.

www.bayareapartnership.org/asi/asi-tools.htm

Engages communities and builds their capacity to improve the nutrition and physical activity status of California’s low income African-American, American Indian, Latino, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander youth 10-14 years old.

www.canfit.org

The primary duty of the California Career Resource Network is to distribute career information, resources, and training materials to middle school and high school counselors, educators, and administrators, in order to ensure that middle schools and high schools have the necessary information available to provide a pupil with guidance and instruction on education and job requirements necessary for career development.

www.californiacareers.info

This site provides recourses for educators and a lending library that gives curriculum to educators.

http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/directory/educate.html

Programmatic and fiscal resources to build, implement, and sustain quality before and after school programs, including school-age care and other out-of-school opportunities for children and youth.

www.cde.ca.gov

Gives teacher tools to help better educate students on fire and forest protection.

http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/communications_teacherstools.php

This site provides curriculum that offers accurate and current waste management information. Implementing "reduce, reuse, and recycle", not only in the class but at home as well.

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Schools/Curriculum/default.htm

Offer training, resources, advocacy, and information to help you in your vital work with kids.

www.calsac.org

74 public libraries throughout California offer free online homework help to students (grades 4-12), their parents, and after-school service providers. The program can be accessed at the library or remotely via the Internet with a current library card. For a complete list of public libraries offering online homework assistance, visit http://www.library.ca.gov/Tutor/libraries.html.

Provides vision, leadership, research, customized strategies and ongoing support to community organizations, schools, policymakers and advocates working toward a more equitable, inclusive, multicultural society.

www.californiatomorrow.org

The Center for Collaborative Solutions provides leadership in afterschool policy and practice. Its publications and guides offer afterschool programs valuable tools in starting-up and improving the quality of their programs. Through its Healthy Behaviors Initiative, CCS has published a guide to Developing Exemplary Practices in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Food Security in Afterschool Programs and supports Healthy Behaviors Learning Centers across the state to help other afterschool programs. CCS consultants also provide training, coaching and mentoring.