ED419303 EA029112
Title: Safe and Smart: Making the After-School Hours Work for Kids.
Author(s): Pederson, Julie; de Kanter, Adriana; Bobo, Lynson Moore;
Weinig, Katrina; Noeth, Kristyn
Author Affiliation: Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
(ED), Washington, DC.(EDD00115); Department of Justice, Washington,
DC.(BBB00482)
Pages: 92
Publication Date: June 1998
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC04 Plus Postage.
Availability: U.S. Department of Education Web site at http://www.ed.gov
or U.S. Department of Justice Web site at http://www.ncjrs.org/ojjhome.htm
Language: English
Document Type: Guides--Non-classroom (055); Reports--Evaluative (142)
Geographic Source: U.S.; District of Columbia
Journal Announcement: RIEOCT1998
Government Level: Federal
After-school
programs provide wide-ranging benefits to children, their families,
and the whole community. This report focuses on the benefits children
receive: increased safety, reduced risk-taking, and improved learning.
Quality afterschool programs keep kids out of trouble, prevent crime,
juvenile delinquency, school vandalism, and violent victimization.
Participants spend more time in academic activities and enrichment
lessons than do their unsupervised peers. Common program elements
include: goal setting and strong management; quality staffing; low
staff/student ratios; attention to safety, health, and nutrition
issues; effective partnerships with community-based organizations,
juvenile justice agencies, law enforcement, and youth groups; strong
family involvement; coordination of learning with classroom instruction;
linkages between school and afterschool personnel; and evaluation
of program effectiveness. Descriptions of 26 exemplary communities
meeting the need for afterschool communities range from Bridgeport,
Connecticut's ASPIRA Lighthouse Program to San Antonio's YouthARTS
Program. The report includes 118 endnotes; a bibliography of 67
references; a list of resources (organizations, websites, listservs,
and videos); a list of federal government resources and programs;
and a list of U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of
Justice publications. (MLH)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; *After School Programs; Agency
Cooperation; Cooperative Programs; Delinquency; Elementary Secondary
Education; *Influences; *Latchkey Children; Learning Activities;
Partnerships in Education; Prevention; *Social Development
Identifiers: Goal Setting
