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HUS1620Chapter51.pptxChapter 5: Community- based AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS
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Chapter focus
Chapter discusses programs that were created for the primary use in afterschool settings that have a community focus
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What is a community?
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Community
is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.
Program Overview: Provides a combination of educational, cultural, and recreational activities
Target Population: Inner-city youth and family
Program Goal: to reduce crime & violence among youth and their families by providing afterschool programs
Important Program Details
School-based program that’s located on school grounds that serve school-age children who attend and who do not attend school
Created by New York City Department of Youth & Community Development
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New York city beacons
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Program Overview: Afterschool, education, and enrichment program that provides
Target Population: Academically challenged and financially disadvantaged, and must be located in high crime neighborhood in the LA Unified School District
Program Goal: to create a safe environment for students with enhanced educational, enrichment, and recreational activities, and to teach socioemotional skills
Important Program Details
Students are 20% less likely to drop out of high school
Students show increased self-esteem and self-efficacy
Every school day, from the time the school bell rings until 6pm, each LA’s BEST student receives a nutritious meal, help with their homework and the opportunity to participate in a wide array of enrichment activities
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LA’S bEST
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Program Overview: is a Baltimore community based afterschool program seeks to improve the quality of life in low SES communities
Target Population: Inner City Youth & Families
Program Goal: is to improve the quality of life in Baltimore City by directly serving public school students and their families academically, culturally, and behaviourally in school based, extended-day centers
Important Program Details
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/44742798
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Child’s First Authority (CFA)
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Program Overview: created specifically to provide young children from single-parent families with adult mentors
Program Goal: is to provide young children with role models in their everyday lives who will provide them with positive experiences, teach them to make healthy decisions, and help them strive for the best in life
Important Program Details
Adults who sign up to be Big Brothers Big Sisters are screened and, if selected, asked to spend at least 4 to 6 hours every month with their little brothers or sisters
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
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Boy Scouts of America & Girl Scouts of the usa
Program Overview: Program seeks to enrich the lives of young makes and teach them how to become model citizens by providing them with educational, mentoring, social, cultural, and recreational opportunities on a regular basis
Target Population: Youth ages 7 and older
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Program Goal: is to provide girls with enrichment: educational, recreational, and cultural opportunities that will help them develop into positive and productive citizens
Target Population: Youth ages 5 and up
Boy Scouts of America
Girl scouts of the usa
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Community based afterschool programs
Program Overview: teaches youth about the dangers & the safe(ties) of camping outdoors
Target Population: Inner City Youth & Families
Program Goal: is to maximize students potential and function effectively as caring, self-directed individuals responsible to themselves and others
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Camp fire boys & girls
Program Overview: created to introduce youth to nature study as a basis for better agricultural education
Target Population: Youth ages 5-18
Important Program Details
America’s largest youth development organization—empowering nearly six million young people across the U.S. with the skills to lead for a lifetime.
YouTube Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4W2imVISbE&feature=player_embedded_uturn
4-h ( Head, heart, hands, & health)
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Boys & Girls club of America & Police Athletic league (PAL)
Program Overview: Program developed to provide youth with safe havens during non-school hours
Target Population: Youth ages 6 and older
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Program Goal: is an afterschool service providing program that strives to improve relations between inner-city youth and police as well as decrease violence/delinquency
Target Population: Youth ages 5 and up
Boys & Girls club of America
Police athletic league
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PROGRAM Effectiveness
Are previously mentioned Community-Based Afterschool Programs effective?
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Chapter Take Home Message
The community based programs have good intentions & serve a variety of students
All programs mentioned have aftercare focus & have widely been replicated
Community’s play a major role towards the effectiveness of community-based afterschool programs
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Questions
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