Implementation
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– Evaluation –
Documenting Progress and Demonstrating Results: Evaluating Local Out-of-School Time Programs
Author: Little, Priscilla (6 more by this author); Sharon Deich; Sharon DuPree
Description: This brief provides practitioners of local out-of-school time programs with techniques, tools, and strategies for improving their program and tracking its effectiveness over time. 47 pages.
Why conduct Program Evaluation? Five Reasons Why Evaluation Can Help An Out-Of-School Time Program
Description: This brief discusses five reasons for doing program evaluation. Additional resources are provided to design and implement an evaluation.
– General Information –
Keys to Quality Youth Development 
Description: Defines youth development & non-formal education. Makes a case for non-formal education as vehicle for positive youth development.
Understanding Youth Development Work
Author: Walker, Joyce (3 more by this author); Trudy Dunham
Description: A paper that gives an overview of youth development work in a non-formal educational setting.
– Programming Resource –
Child Care Center Financial Planning and Facility Development Manual
Description: Child Care Center Financial Planning and Facility Development Manual guides the prospective childcare provider through facility selection and management through the basics of financial management of a child care service program.
Housing and Outreach Strategies for Rural Youth: Best Practices from the Rural Youth Survey
Description: This brief presents the results of a survey of rural youth programs.
Imagine Afterschool Space that Works
Author: Pardee, Mav
Description: New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition's article on use of sapce in an afterschool program provides suggestin for arranging space for effective use of facilities. Strategies are adaptable to a variety of afterschool spaces.
Participation Over Time: Keeping Youth Engaged from Middle School to High School
Description: The article sheds light on how a set of school- and community-based programs with high rates of participation address adolescents' developmental needs and how these programs change their strategies to support adolescents over time.
– Research –
Description: This study examined the relationship between the leadership skills of adult community leaders in rural Montana and their participation in 4-H as youth.
Out-of-School Time Programs in Rural Areas
Description: This Research Update highlights the benefits, challenges, and successful strategies of OST programs in rural areas, based on profiles from HFRP's OST Database.
Description: This PowerPoint presentation describes effective program implementation.
Description: This PowerPoint presentation describes effective program implementation.