PASE accomplishes our mission by building the capacity of afterschool professionals, youth-serving organizations, and the afterschool field as a whole, all with the goal of increasing the availability of quality services for youth during out-of-school hours.
PASE supports the following initiatives:
Strengthening college preparedness and success programs in afterschool
Expanding summer opportunities to decrease learning loss during these critical months and ensure academic readiness come September
Supporting and promoting leadership in youth serving agencies
Preparing afterschool staff to promote science, technology, engineering, and math programming to support young people's success
Enabling afterschool programs to identify and measure appropriate outcomes for their programs and the youth they serve
Supporting afterschool programs in preparing young people to participate in the world as global citizens
Providing high-quality, resource-rich, professional development offerings focused on the specific needs of the youth-services field