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Family and Neighborhood Risks: How They Relate to Involvement in Out-of-School Time Activities

This brief illustrates the needs of children in high-risk families and neighborhoods for quality after school programs.

Afterschool: Supporting Family Involvement in Schools

This brief explores the various ways afterschool programs create linkages between school and home for students and parents. It is one in a series of Issue Briefs sponsored by the MetLife Foundation that addresses the benefits afterschool programs provide to children, families and communities.

Habitat For Humanity

Habitat for Humanity partners with people in your community, and all over the world, to help them build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage.

Ready Freddy

The Ready Freddy program was created in collaboration with Pittsburg Public schools and community members in an effort to increase school readiness in low income urban communities. The Ready Freddy Program’s success comes from the following elements: transition teams, kindergarten clubs, parent engagement, attendance, and welcoming schools.

Getting Children Ready for Kindergarten

Getting Children Ready for Kindergarten is a guide for teachers and caregivers of Preschool children that was developed by the Arkansas Department of Human Services and the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education. The guide can be used as a curriculum resource that discusses: expressiveness and language comprehension, approach to cognition, print knowledge, mathematics, and the social, emotional and physical development.

National Resource Center for Youth Services (NRCYS)

NRCYS is committed to providing you with timely, practical resources so that you can, in turn, provide the best care to the children, youth, and families you serve. They have confidence in their services and resources, because every year they speak to hundreds of youth, families, and youth care professionals about what works and what is needed to help children, youth, and families grow and thrive.

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections

Offers a comprehensive, up-to date, easy to use collection of more than 15,000 resources from many disciplines related to child care and early education.

ACT For Youth

ACT (Assets Coming Together) for Youth Center of Excellence connects research to practice in the areas of positive youth development and adolescent sexual health.

#ICANHELP

#ICANHELP is a resource that empowers children and teens to create a positive digital impact and promote digital safety.

United Way

This program is dedicated to getting students to finish high school and cut the drop out rate in half by 2018, in order to do so they have many resources about out of school time to strengthen in school time.

National Center for Families Learning

Families Learning provides families with the resources they need to be sure that everyone in the household is literate.