P/PV Program Areas | Out-of-School Time

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		Recruiting and Retaining Older African American and Hispanic Boys in After-School Programs: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn

by Tina J. Kauh June 2010, 17 pages Created in partnership with the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS), this GroundWork brief provides an overview of promising strategies for recruiting and retaining middle- and high-school-aged African-American and Hispanic males in after-school programs. To read the brief, click here.

		Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time

by Sarah N. Deschenes, Amy Arbreton, Priscilla M. Little, Carla Herrera, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Heather B. Weiss with Diana Lee April 2010, 90 pages This report details the findings from a joint P/PV-Harvard Family Research Project study that examined the practices and structural features of almost 200 out-of-school-time programs to identify the characteristics most successful in retaining older youth—as well as the strategies cities are using to support participation. The full report can be accessed here; an accompanying research synopsis can be found here.

		AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs

by Lauren J. Kotloff and Danijela Korom-Djakovic April 2010, 54 pages This report presents our analysis of the implementation of the AfterZone initiative—a citywide system-building effort in Providence, RI, that aims to provide high-quality, accessible out-of-school-time services to middle school youth. Click here to read the full report, or here to read the accompanying executive summary.

		Now Available: Updated After-School Resource Guide

P/PV has recently updated the online resource guide that accompanies Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens, a report commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. Click here to view new research and tools designed to strengthen after-school programs, particularly those serving preteens.

Overview


For more than a decade, P/PV has explored the potential of out-of-school-time (OST) programs to produce positive outcomes for youth. P/PV has cast a wide net in our work, examining out-of-school-time programs with purely developmental goals as well as those with a more academic focus. More >>

Recent Publications

Investments in Building Citywide Out-of-School-Time Systems: A Six-City Study
This report examines the development of out-of-school-time systems in six cities across the country and summarizes the strategies and activities commonly pursued, their associated investments and options for financing such system-building efforts.

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The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs: Final Report
This report presents the findings from a random assignment study that tested whether providing additional academic structure and support during the first 45-minutes of an after-school program could produce better outcomes than more traditional services, such as homework help or tutoring.

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Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs' Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens
The third in a series of reports from P/PV's three-year study of the role Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of the youth they serve, Making Every Day Count examines how Club participation is related to youth's positive and healthy development in three outcome areas: good character and citizenship, academic success and healthy lifestyles.

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Major Initiatives

AfterZone After-School Initiative
With support from The Wallace Foundation, P/PV is conducting a 40-month evaluation of the AfterZone initiative in Providence, RI—an innovative citywide approach to providing accessible, high-quality after-school programs to middle school youth.

Boys & Girls Clubs
P/PV conducted a longitudinal evaluation of teens involved in Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide, focusing on the transition from middle to high school. The study explored a variety of attitudinal, behavioral and relational outcomes.

Evaluation of Financial Management in Out-of-School Time
This initiative seeks to strengthen the financial-management practices of out-of-school-time programs by evaluating two distinct capacity-building strategies.

Higher Achievement Program
In collaboration with Columbia University, P/PV is conducting a random-assignment evaluation of this intensive, academically-focused program, which provides after-school and summer academic instruction for economically disadvantaged students in 5th through 8th grades.

Out-of-School Time Cost Project
P/PV is partnering with The Finance Project to conduct a six-city cost study of high-quality OST programs and citywide systems.

Youth Education for Tomorrow (YET) Literacy
An after-school and summer literacy initiative that supports and strengthens community- and faith-based organizations' efforts to help low-achieving young people learn to read.

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