Introduction

Resources

	Management
	Communication
	Programming
	Integrating K-12 and After-School Programs
	Community Building/ Collaboration
	Evaluation

Appendices

	Title Index
	Web Sites

For More Afterschool

National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning Web site

How Afterschool Programs Can Most Effectively Promote Positive Youth Development as a Support to Academic Achievement: A Report Commissioned by the Boston After-School for All Partnership

Georgia Hall, Nicole Yohalem, Joel Tolman, and Alicia Wilson

In this publication, the researchers report ways in which quality after-school programs can help young people to succeed both academically and developmentally. The resource presents a review of learning theories, explains the features and rationale of the positive youth development approach, provides examples of local and national programs utilizing positive strategies, articulates the challenges Boston faces, and offers recommendations for both short-term and long-term actions and policy activities. (95 pages)

© 2002 Web Resource http://www.niost.org/WCW3.pdf

National Institute on Out-of-School Time Center for Research on Women 105 Central St. Wellesley, MA 02481 Phone: (781) 283-2547 Fax: (781) 283-3657 Web: http://www.niost.org

This resource is from the Integrating K-12 and After-School Programs category.

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