Training and Professional Development
ASAPconnect - California's Link to Quailty After School Assistance Providers
ASAPconnect links after school programs with assistance providers to facilitate effective regional partnerships, expand after school program capabilities, and improve program quality.
Bay Area Partnership: Tools to Start and Run
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.
California Adolescent Nutrition & Fitness (CANFit) Program
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.
California After-School Resource Center (CASRC)
Find access to multiple free training modules including health and nutrition, first aid and hygiene, staff development, and quality improvement systems training. These trainings are free and can be scheduled for your site. Click on the training tab on the link below.
http://www.californiaafterschool.org/
California School-Age Consortium
Offer training, resources, advocacy, and information to help you in your vital work with kids.
CCS The Center for Collaborative Solutions
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.
For more information, visit www.afterschoolsolutions.org.
Center for Afterschool Education at Foundations, Inc
Works with afterschool organizations, school districts, municipalities, and thousands of educators across the country dedicated to making the out-of-school hours a dynamic time for learning and healthy development. Grounded in practice (fourteen years operating pre-K-12th grade programs), the Center provides publications, professional development, and technical assistance for building high quality programs and effective aftershool educators.
Center for Summer Learning
Creates opportunities for high-quality summer learning for all young people.
Citizen Schools
Citizen Schools is a national nonprofit provider of out-of-school learning programs for middle-school students that uniquely mobilizes business, civic and community volunteers to participate in education by providing hands-on apprenticeships.
Collaborative Communications Group (CCG)
The Collaborative Communications Group consists of a team of strategic consultants who use collaboration and communications to build the capacity and influence of organizations working to improve public education and the quality of community life.
Community Network for Youth Development (CNYD)
Serves youth workers and youth-serving organizations in the Bay Area to improve the quality of programs for youth by supporting and strengthening the people and agencies who work with them.
Developing After School Leadership Institute (DASL)
Aims to develop a well-trained after school management staff that will enable them to lead effective programs that ultimately will positively impact youth.
DSG Development Services Group
Contains the Model Programs Guide, which is designed to assist practitioners and communities in implementing evidence-based prevention and intervention programs.
Foundations Inc.
A non-profit professional development, training, technical assistance, assessment and research organization committed to increasing the quality of nationwide youth programs.
Health Initiatives For Youth
Creates publications, resource materials, and facilitates workshops and trainings for youth and the providers that work with them on a variety of youth and health topics, such as body image, sexuality, STDs and HIV, substance use, self-esteem and mental health, relationships, and violence.
Healthy Eating, Active Communities (HEAC)
Work with school-based and community-based programs to adopt policies and practices that promote healthy eating and increased physical activity, and to foster cooperation with parks and recreation.
Information For Decision Making's Finance Project
Information For Decision Making's Finance Project serves as a comprehensive clearinghouse of information and technical assistance resources to support decision-making that produces and sustains good results for children, families, and communities.
Kids Included Together
Supports recreational, child, and youth development programs that include children with or without disabilities. Includes resources on inclusion training and best practices.
Learn and Serve America
Learn and Serve America supports service-learning programs in schools and community organizations by helping nearly one million students meet community needs, while improving their academic skills and learning the habits of good citizenship.
National Institute on Out-of-School Time
Assist the afterschool field through its research, education and training, consultation, and field-building.