In this Issue:

• Perils and Promise:Afterschool Programs on School Territory by Joseph L. Polman
• Leveraging Resources to Promote Positive School-CBO Relationships by Christopher Wimer, Margaret Post, and Priscilla Little
• Acts of Invention: The Afterschool Program as a Site for Building Community by Kirsten Cole
• Civic Spaces: Retooling Public Libraries to Attract and Engage Teens after School by Lisa Wahl Moellman and Jodi Rosenbaum Tillinger
• Youth-Adult Partnerships: A Powerful Force for Community Change by Shuan Butcher
• In Addition Afterschool Mathematics Program: Principles, Practice, and Pitfalls by Judith McVarish and Patricia Birkmeier
• Rites of Passage: Preparing Youth for Social Change by Susan Wilcox, Khary Lazarre-White, and Jason Warwin

The Afterschool Matters is part of the Afterschool Matters Initiative. Afterschool Matters is a national, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to promoting professionalism, scholarship and consciousness in the field of afterschool education. Published by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time with support from the Robert Bowne Foundation, the journal serves those involved in developing and managing programs for youth during the out-of-school time hours, in addition to those engaged in research and in shaping youth development policy.