Community Partnerships
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Center for Intergenerational Learning
Description: Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning
1601 North Broad Street, Room 206 Philadelphia, PA 19122. Strengthening communities by bringing generations together to meet the needs of individuals and families throughout the life cycle.
Description: The Global Youth ACTION Network is a collaboration among youth and youth-serving organizations to share information, resources and solutions to promote greater youth engagement. The GYAN creates the opportunity for every young person to be heard, leverages their voices to impact national and global agendas and provides tools, recognition and financial support for youth who take positive action to improve our world - community by community.
National Institute on Out-of-School Time
Description: The mission of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time is to ensure that all children, youth, and families have access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities during non-school hours. NIOST believes that these experiences are essential to the healthy development of children and youth, who then can become effective and capable members of society. Our work bridges the worlds of research and practice.
Promising Practices in Afterschool System (PPAS)
Description: The Promising Practices in Afterschool (or "PPAS") System is an effort to find and share things that are working in afterschool programs. The PPAS website is for afterschool program directors who want to improve the quality of their programs.
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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.
Learning From Logic Models in Out-of-School Time
Description: A logic model can be a powerful tool for illustrating a program's theory of change to program staff, partners, funders, and evaluators. Moreover, a completed logic model provides a point of reference against which progress towards achievement of desired outcomes can be measured on an ongoing basis, both through performance measurement and evaluation. This 2002 brief offers an in-depth review of logic models and how to construct them.
Out-of-School Time Program Evaluation, Tools for Action
Author: Geiger, Elke (1 more by this author); Brenda Britsch
Description: NWREL's Out-of-School-Time Program Evaluation helps program administrators know how their after-school program is working and if it's meeting the expectations of students, staff, parents, and community partners. Through surveys, focus groups, and other data sources, administrators are able to gain valuable information that not only influences program direction but also helps in fulfilling grant reporting requirements. The parent and student surveys are provided in a spanish.
Why, When, and How to Use Evaluation: Experts Speak Out
Author: Weiss, Heather (5 more by this author); Priscilla Little
Description: In this issue breif experts respond to the President's Fiscal Year 2004 Education Budget Summary and Background Information proposal to a 40 percent reduction in the 21st CCLC budget.
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Description: The 4-H National Headquarters and Land Grant Institutions across the nation partner with the Army, Air Force and Navy to provide predictable, quality 4-H programs and educational experiences to Military Children and Youth wherever they live. In addition, land grant university faculty and staff provide technical assistance and training to the military services in the areas of youth development and technology. Through the 4-H Military Partnerships, Military Children and Youth participate in 4-H Clubs on installations around the world and in their local communities. Military Children and Youth attend a variety of camp programs focusing on developing life skills and increase their awareness of the world around them.
Author: Stevens, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: This guide for 4-H Clubs and members suggests ways youth can participate as an active
asset in their communities to promote emergency and disaster planning. It includes sample activities, links to resources, and action steps for serving as a catalyst in jump-starting preparedness planning in business, community and families. The guide can be used by traditional 4-H clubs, specialty clubs, school enrichment or 4-H Afterschool programs.
Association for Childhood Education International
Description: ACEI promotes and supports in the global community the optimal education and development of children, from birth through early adolescence, and to influence the professional growth of educators and the efforts of others who are committed to the needs of children in a changing society.
Building Strong Communities through School-Extension Partnerships 
Author: Rasmussen, Marilyn; Jessica Kirkham; Sonia Mack; Tracey Lehrke; Carrie Johnson; Tina Dangel
Description: In recent years, schools have been expected to address both academic and non-academic needs of children. Extension is well-positioned to partner with schools in meeting numerous social, emotional and physical needs of youth and families. Partnerships or community coalitions can be developed between schools and Extension to meet these critical needs. Examples of current partnerships will be shared.
Community-Based Organization Tool Kit
Description: The CBO tool kit is a series of 17 informational handouts providing a breadth of information for getting community based after school programs jump-started. Specific strategies for organizing afterschool collaborations are referenced. In essence, it is a basic “how to get after school programs started guide.” Categories include what research shows, strategies for action, and checklists.
Firestarter Youth Power Curriculum
Author: Fletcher, Adam (3 more by this author)
Description: Activities to increase youth engagement throughout society. Includes action plans and reflection activities, as well as resources for continued development.
Author: Rappoport, Ann; West Chester University; Dr. Sharon Kletzien
Description: Kids Around Town (KAT) is an award-winning, service-learning program emphasizing civic connections in community-based problem solving. The KAT website provides a variety of lesson plans, curriculum materials, and teaching strategies, including a 40-page PDF Manual for involving students with special needs in mainstream projects. It provides background information and research so that educators can improve their practices while motivating students, accomplishing content & process standards, and building bridges to their communities.
Kids Count Pocket Guide African-American Children
Description: African-american Children Children Pocket Guide provide statistics on economic, educational, and social well-being for minority children and highlights gaps that persist between minority kids and non-Hispanic white children in the US. Derived from the 2000 Census, the booklet contains a national overview, state-by-state data and state rankings.
OMK—A Gold Mine for Civic Engagement
Author: Cross, Charlotte (2 more by this author); KEn Grey
Description: Sharing NH Operation: Military Kids (OMK) successful strategies for implementing civic engagement activities related to military kids will be the workshop focus. Participants will explore engaging: youth organizations (4-H, scouts), university connections (ROTC, student volunteers), community partners (veterans, spiritual community, after school groups), and public and private schools. In addition, participants will generate civic engagement plans for use back home.
Sowing the Seeds of Success: All the Tools You Need to Cultivate Community with Gardening
Author: Bushway, Lori ; Marcia Eames-Sheavly
Description: Participants will leave this workshop with all the tools needed to launch any type of gardening program in any community setting. Gardening is one of the most notable positive trends in the nation today. Enthusiasts state that this creative, inter-generational environment has many opportunities. This workshop includes: introduction to garden benefits, program planning and evaluation, gardening 101, and fundraising.
The Coalition for Community Schools
Description: The Coalition for Community Schools works toward improving education and helping students learn and grow while supporting and strengthening their families and communities. Community schools bring together many partners to offer a range of supports and opportunities to children, youth, families and communities -- before, during and after school, seven days a week.
Tips for Helping Students Recovering from Traumatic Events
Description: This brochure provides tips for parents, teachers, school administrators, coaches and students on how to cope with a natural disaster.
Understanding the Market for Arts Education in Afterschool Settings
Author: Peterson, Terry; Jennifer May; Scott Shanklin-Peterson
Description: Tying arts programs with after school programs is a trend that 21stCentury Community Learning Centers from 12 states are advocating according to a survey completed May 2007. These after school leaders rated the arts as very important for overall after school programming. Although difficult to find the right resources within communities the after school leaders indicated art programs afford an opportunity to enhance the learning taking place during the school day, not substitute for it.
Why, When, and How to Use Evaluation: Experts Speak Out
Author: Weiss, Heather (5 more by this author); Priscilla Little
Description: In this issue breif experts respond to the President's Fiscal Year 2004 Education Budget Summary and Background Information proposal to a 40 percent reduction in the 21st CCLC budget.
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Connecting Youth and Business: A Toolkit for Employers
Description: This toolkit provides step-by-step instructions to guide companies on options for supporting, training, and employing disconnected youth.
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Capturing Positive Youth Contributions using the Community Capitals Framework
Author: Baker, Barbara; Mary Emery; Sharon Kinsey; Matt Calvert; Richard Enfield; Bonita Williams
Description: Recognizing and utilizing community assets, such as social capital (bridging or bonding relationships) is beneficial to at-risk communities. A USDA research group aims to demonstrate how social capital is fostered and supported through 4-H. This presentation shares ways to document positive youth contributions through community mapping through active learning.
Author: Emery, Mary (3 more by this author); Susan Jakes; Laura Laumatia
Description: This workshop will focus on coaching as an approach to building communities and organizational capacity to create, develop, implement, and support ongoing efforts that support healthy communities and youth engagement. Participants will learn strategies, such as storytelling, and discourse-based processes that move beyond the expert model to an engagement model that leads to sustainable adult/youth partnerships.
Author: Rappoport, Ann; West Chester University; Dr. Sharon Kletzien
Description: Kids Around Town (KAT) is an award-winning, service-learning program emphasizing civic connections in community-based problem solving. The KAT website provides a variety of lesson plans, curriculum materials, and teaching strategies, including a 40-page PDF Manual for involving students with special needs in mainstream projects. It provides background information and research so that educators can improve their practices while motivating students, accomplishing content & process standards, and building bridges to their communities.
Mastering the Mystery: Food, Facts and Fun
Author: Dansby, Montreka; Travella Free
Description: Join the team of detectives on the mission to explore "the journey of food" through innovative and integrative school and community gardening programs. The webinar will highlight the benefits of gardening, curriculum connections, activities, technology tools, food and nutrition and related initiatives. Program directors, front line staff and trainers of afterschool and Out-of-School-Time (OST) programs this is a session for you! 21st CCLC, Parks and Recreation programs, Cooperative Extension, 4-H Youth Development, Boys and Girls Clubs, Y programs, etc. - if you want youth to get excited about healthy living and learn about the connection of food and gardening to science, join us for this session. Curricula, activities and the connection of gardening and nutrition to science learning and education standards will be provided.
Partnering Strategically With Your LEA: A Recipe for Success
Description: Archived Connect Session. This webinar was sponsored by the CYFERnet School Age Editorial Board and recorded May 2012. Learn how your colleagues have collaborated with their local education agency (LEA). This session highlights K-12 programming as it is seen in the classroom and out of the classroom. County level experiences are shared from both an urban, military, tribal and rural perspective. This is a great beginning workshop to start or expand your focus in K-12 programming, using the shared insights of the task and how to manage it.
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Description: The 4-H National Headquarters and Land Grant Institutions across the nation partner with the Army, Air Force and Navy to provide predictable, quality 4-H programs and educational experiences to Military Children and Youth wherever they live. In addition, land grant university faculty and staff provide technical assistance and training to the military services in the areas of youth development and technology. Through the 4-H Military Partnerships, Military Children and Youth participate in 4-H Clubs on installations around the world and in their local communities. Military Children and Youth attend a variety of camp programs focusing on developing life skills and increase their awareness of the world around them.
Description: This guide provides answers to key question that principals may ask about building a quality afterschool program and forming stronger relationships with afterschool program directors and staff.
Description: A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement is a synthesis of 51 studies about the impact of family and community involvement on student achievement and effective strategies to connect schools, families, and community.
Building and Sustaining After-School Programs: Successful Practices in School Board Leadership
Description: A report presenting ways school boards can promote student success and community engagement by supporting extended learning opportunities.
Engaging Local Education Agencies, School Boards & Principals
Description: Principals, superintendents and local education agencies can aid afterschool and expanded learning programs by helping to leverage local resources, assist in alignment with school standards, offer access to student records and grades and enable school personnel to work as afterschool staff.
Firestarter Youth Power Curriculum
Author: Fletcher, Adam (3 more by this author)
Description: Activities to increase youth engagement throughout society. Includes action plans and reflection activities, as well as resources for continued development.
Healthy Schools, A Guide to Local Action
Description: This tool kit promotes evaluation and changes in the school environment that support healthy eathing and physical activity behaviors. The pdf walks users through the process of affecting change in school health policies and nutrition.
Improving Family and Community Engagement Through Sharing Data
Description: A briefing paper by the Southeast Comprehensive Center outlines the significance of family and community engagement, examines considerations and recommendations for sharing data with stakeholders, and provides related resources.
Invitation to the Big Picture: Implementing a Local Collaboration for Youth in Your Community
Description: The National Collaboration for Youth has created this guide designed help organization identify or form an association of local child- and youth-serving agencies.
Learning From Logic Models in Out-of-School Time
Description: A logic model can be a powerful tool for illustrating a program's theory of change to program staff, partners, funders, and evaluators. Moreover, a completed logic model provides a point of reference against which progress towards achievement of desired outcomes can be measured on an ongoing basis, both through performance measurement and evaluation. This 2002 brief offers an in-depth review of logic models and how to construct them.
One Seed at a Time: Alleviating Climate Change through Youth Community Action in the Garden
Description: One Seed at a Time is a model project for how teams of children, youth and adults working in partnership can make a difference in their communities through sustainable gardening practices.
Description: This booklet details the organizational steps needed to initiate a successful community gardening project with kids.
Ten Ways to Promote Educational Achievement and Attainment Beyond the Classroom
Author: Boccanfuso, Christopher; Camille Whitney, B.A.; Kristin A. Moore, Ph.D.
Description: This Child Trends brief identifies 10 actionable goals involving non-school factors that can affect educational outcomes.
The Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series
Description: The Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series provides information on research, best practices, and innovations in family, school, and community engagement. Topics include school transformation and making student and school data accessible and meaningful to families.
Working with Teachers to Support Children's Learning
Author: Silliman, Benjamin (6 more by this author)
Description: This resource offers ideas to help parents and family members work cooperatively with teachers and activity leaders to support childrenÂ’s learning.
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4-H Wildlife Stewards--A New Delivery Model for 4-H
Author: Hosty, Maureen (1 more by this author)
Description: OregonÂ’s 4-H Wildlife Stewards trains volunteers in building community capacity and working collaboratively with schools and community partners. The program emphasizes facilitative change, not just skill acquisition. This national training model documents the educational and scientific impacts of the project on students, teachers, and communities. Training consist of 24-hour training course; supporting team-based projects for youth; and works exclusively in schools. Volunteers give back 50 hours of volunteer time. Projects that resulted from the collaborations include creating courtyard ponds; bird and butterfly gardens, wetland, woodland and stream restoration projects, and on-site school nurseries.
Afterschool: A Strategy for Addressing and Preventing Middle School Bullying (2011)
Description: This brief from MetLife Foundation Afterschool Alliance exames critical issues facing middle school youth and the vital role afterschool programs play in addressing these issues. The brief concludes that afterschool programs can provide a link to community partners who bring new voices to help children to stand up to those who bully.
Community Resources Assessment
Author: Francis, Robert
Description: In this narrated presentation, Robert Francis of ABCD Institute introduces program providers to the ABCD approach to community resources assessment. (20 minutes)
Family, School and Community Involvement in School-Age Child Care Programs: Best Practices
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author); Tony Mallilo; Marilyn Martin
Description: This article is a report of the results of a study that evaluated 30 school-age programs serving high-risk populations. Directors were asked to identify practices they found successful in working with high risk children and families that enhance child care program support and foster involvement of the school, the family, and the community.
Author: Rappoport, Ann; West Chester University; Dr. Sharon Kletzien
Description: Kids Around Town (KAT) is an award-winning, service-learning program emphasizing civic connections in community-based problem solving. The KAT website provides a variety of lesson plans, curriculum materials, and teaching strategies, including a 40-page PDF Manual for involving students with special needs in mainstream projects. It provides background information and research so that educators can improve their practices while motivating students, accomplishing content & process standards, and building bridges to their communities.