National Institute on Out-of-School Time
$2.1 Million Awarded for 5-Year Afterschool Matters Initiative
$2.1 Million Awarded for 5-Year Afterschool Matters Initiative
April 14, 2008
Lunchtime Seminar: Kids on the Fastrack! A Study of an International Preschool Enrichment Program
March 12, 2009
National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST)
NIOST
This long-term program has brought national attention to the importance of children's out-of-school time using research, training and advocacy to strengthen children's emotional, physical, and social development.
National Institute on Out-of-School Time Partners with nFocus Software on Youth Assessment
National Institute on Out-of-School Time Partners with nFocus Software on Youth Assessment
April 29, 2008
New Jersey After 3 Assembles Statewide Industry Leaders to Kick Off New School Year
FOXBusiness.com
August 20, 2009
New Jersey After 3 Assembles Statewide Industry Leaders to Kick Off New School Year
FOXBusiness.com
August 20, 2009
NIOST Summer Seminars 2010
Location: John Hancock Conference Center, Boston, MA
Random selection: Some students say drug testing policies don’t work
The Times-News (Twin Falls, ID)
Blair Koch
February 11, 2008
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Funds NIOST Study on on Physical Activity and Healthy Eating in OST
January 27, 2010
Still Stuck in Low Wage Jobs: Is It Time That We Solve the Youth Worker Compensation Problem?
by Ellen S. Gannett, M.Ed.
From the Spring/Summer 2007 Research & Action Report
Afterschool practitioners and youth workers play a critical role in today’s society, serving as positive adult role models, mentors, coaches, tutors and friends for young people, and a vital support for working parents. Too often, however, these practitioners do not receive the recognition or resources they need to feel valued in their work by the public and, more importantly, by their employers. While most youth workers are educated, satisfied and committed to making a difference in the lives of the children and youth they serve, too many report being underpaid, underappreciated, and at times overworked, often holding down multiple jobs just to make a living wage. Stress and burnout are all too real and recruitment of qualified administrators and staff remains challenging. For our most vulnerable youth who depend on quality out-of-school time programs, it is imperative that private and public policy makers understand the domino effect that results from underpaid youth workers. Read more
Update on Afterschool Matters
In July, 2008 the Robert Bowne Foundation transferred the Afterschool
Matters (ASM) initiative to the National Institute on Out-of-School
Time (NIOST)
at the Wellesley Centers for Women. The four components of this
comprehensive initiative are: (1) the Practitioner Fellowship Program,
which provides an inquiry-based year-long research and writing
professional development experience for out-of-school-time
practitioners; (2) the Afterschool Matters journal, which disseminates
findings and experiences of the Practitioner Fellows and other relevant
research from the out-of-school-time field; (3) the Edmund A. Stanley,
Jr. Research Grantee program to foster high-quality, cutting-edge
research that has lasting impact on the field; and (4) the Research
Roundtables, periodic forums for connecting research and practice.
NIOST’s goals in acquiring the ASM initiative include generating
additional funding support to enable the national expansion of the
initiative, and to ensure the sustainability of ASM into the future.
YMCA evaluating afterschool program
The Republican (Springfield, MA)
Cicily Corbett
January 13, 2010