Helping Youth Succeed Through Out-of-School Time Programs.

The report reviews and summarizes literature on out-of-school time program quality and identifies a number of program characteristics that seem to be successful in helping young people develop academic, workforce, and life-skills. The report offers recommendations to policy makers and practitioners to support and sustain high quality out-of-school time opportunities for older youth.

American Youth Policy Forum
www.aypf.org/publications/HelpingYouthOST2006.pdf