Program Quality Research and Resources
Lessons From the CORAL Inititative
Public Private Ventures recently released a series of reports based on an eight year research and evaluation study of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) Initiative funded by the James Irvine Foundation. The series contains a number of publications including What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After-School, Supporting Success: Why and How to Improve Quality in After-School Programs, and an After School Toolkit: Tips Techniques and Templates for Improving Program Quality.
Youth Service America (YSA)
A resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to provide opportunities for American youth.
Preparing Staff to Involve Youth and Families
The three training modules that provide individual activities or full day trainings on each National Collaboration for Youth approved competency area for front-line youth workers
Tools For Front-Line Youth Worker Competencies
Set of core competencies for paid and volunteer staff that work with youth.
Is There Common Ground?
The National Collaboration for Youth, Search Institute and American Camp Association have been exploring whether there is common ground between how we might prepare youth workers that work in faith-based and youth development organizations.
http://www.nydic.org/nydic/staffing/workforce/istherecommonground.html
Media Literacy and Internet Safety Education
Sixty-nine percent of states report that protecting children from predators and other online dangers is one of their strongest needs.
New Resource: Parent Involvement Matters
Site offers free resources, including articles, success stories, research, etc., to help boost parent involvement at school and at home.
A Policy Agenda to Achieve Afterschool for All in New York State
Offers a snapshot of after school in NY and outlines steps to ensure youth have access to high quality after school opportunities. To view this study visit http://www.tascorp.org/section/what_we_do/public_policy/partners/nysan1
Using Quality Rating Systems in After School Programs
Afterschool Investments recently posted the strategy brief Using Quality Rating Systems to Promote Quality in Afterschool Programs. This strategy brief examines using a state quality rating system to assess after school programs and promote after school program quality. The brief provides access to quality rating system resources, factors of quality in school-age-care settings, overviews how to make a quality rating system work for after school programs, and strategies for aligning a quality rating system with broader after school professional development efforts.
Child Trends Briefs 5 and 6 in Practical Evaluation Methods
Two new briefs recently released from Child Trends offer primers for program providers about Random Assignment and Quasi-Experimental evaluation.
To view the entire Child Trends' series of briefs on practical evaluation methods, visit www.childtrends.org/researchtoresults.
