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Taking the Temperature of Afterschool

New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition (NJSACC's) report, “Taking the Temperature of Afterschool,” is available on their home page at www.njsacc.org. Click on the link to access the website for the full survey, or click on more to read more about the survey.

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Resources from the New York State Afterschool Network

The New York State Afterschool Network (NYSAN) is pleased to announce two new publications for the New York State afterschool field; Guide to Afterschool Professional Development and the NYSAN Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool Survey Report.

Other items on this site include:

Expanding the Role of Afterschool Programs in Promoting Health and Wellness
Maps and Data on New York's Publicly-Funded Afterschool Sites

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STEM in Afterschool

Please help us take a "snapshot" of informal science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs serving high school age youth. The Older Youth Working Group (an outcome of the Older Youth & Science in Out-of-School Time Conference http://epo.mit.edu/conference/) is circulating a survey with the goal to get a better understanding of the support structure, resources, and activities that are available to older youth in our country. Your input will contribute to create a database of information that will be used to positively influence engagement, attitudes and perception, learning and skill building, and direction for youth around STEM education. Results from the survey will be shared with all organizations that contribute data.

The survey takes only 10 minutes to complete but the impact of your participation will be long lasting. Please, make sure to submit your inputs by July 23, 2010. The link to the survey is https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KN9JXD9.

For information about the survey or the Older Youth Working Group, you can contact Irene Porro at iporro@mit.edu.

Irene Porro
MIT Kavli Institute
Member of the Older Youth Working Group

2010 Step Up High School Summit

The California Afterschool Network is excited to host the second annual High School Summit on November 2-4, 2010. Program administrators, high school after school practitioners and high school principals are encouraged to attend. The Summit will focus on successful strategies for high school after school programs. The event will be held at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego. Last year's summit was attended by over 400 statewide and national high school after school practitioners and stakeholders. The Network has worked hard to keep registration costs as low as possible for participants. Click here for more information and registration.

Efforts to Prevent Youth from Smoking

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment would like to recruit your assistance in their efforts to prevent youth under 18 from getting and using tobacco. They would like to ask parents of teenagers in high school a handful of questions over the phone. The interview should take less than 30 minutes to complete. They would also like to offer you a $25 gift card to Target as a thank you for your time. To get more information and to view the letter from CDPHE, click here.