Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) coordinates programs that are related to education and literacy, career and technical education, and community colleges. ED.gov provides resources to expand the knowledge on information regarding vocational training beyond the classroom.
Hospitality, travel & tourism, interior decorating, fashion design, paralegal, firefighting, construction, medical transcription. Online and distance learning vocational training courses and certificate programs let you train for a new career or job on your own time.
Real Work Matters (RWM) provides a database of private post-secondary Vocational Schools in 50 states. It is organized by state and the training occupation providing easy navigating for both students and educators.
In this video, partners of the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS) describe ten innovative and effective ways for schools and community organizations to build strong partnerships that support high-quality expanded learning.
In this article, the authors describe the problem of juvenile crime and discuss how participation in after school programs can benefit youth and can lead to a decrease in violence and increase child safety.
Boys & Girls Clubs offer a place for youth to go after school or on weekends. Clubs reach out to kids you cannot afford, or may lack access to other community programs. The club provides services to promote and enhance the development of youth in a safe and fun environment.
Boys Town offers a continuum of Child and Family Services including Intensive Residential Treatment Services, Group Home Services, Intervention & Assessment Services, Child and Family Support services, in addition to many other services.
This website dedicated to creating opportunities for people of all ages with disabilities or social and economic disadvantages to pursue their dreams.
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education. CSSO provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. Site provides access to a number of different newsletters including “Language, Culture, and Equity,” “Reading and Writing Improvement,” and “Innovation Quarterly.”
The Expanded Learning and Afterschool Project connects you with research, resources and best practices for building affordable and sustainable approaches to expanding learning in your community.
This PDF provides a model for creating student centered environments in schools and ways for schools to collaborate with its community to enhance student learning.
The Junior Achievement program promotes business education for youth. Students who participate in Junior Achieve programs demonstrate a significant understanding of business and economic concepts.
The Local Initiatives Support Collaboration (LISC) is dedicated to helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity- good places to work, do business, and raise children.
Youth participate in fun, hands-on learning activities supported by the latest research of land-grant universities that focus on Science, Engineering, & Technology, Healthy Living, and Citizenship.
The YMCA serves thousands of communities, uniting children and adults of all ages and backgrounds. Information on the YMCA for the United States, and links to the YMCAs that serve the communities through the United States.
The YWCA’s mission is to eliminate racism and empower women. YWCA provides safe places for women and girls in time of crisis, job training, counseling, childcare, health and fitness, and well as other reasons.
The Guidebook on Designing an Expanded Learning Time Program includes resources and examples to assist schools in developing community partnerships to enrich the program experience for students.
PCY is creating and advocating policy changes to enable and incentivize Community School partnerships on the ground.
A community school assessment and checklist to create partnerships.
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This is an online community for afterschool professionals. The site will help you connect and share resources with your colleagues, provide professional development and technical assistance opportunities, and offer tools for improving your program practices.