Resources for Afterschool Professionals

A report exploring the development of the New York City afterschool system, focusing on the 1970s through the present, and featuring the voices of over 30 key players from policy, research, advocacy, and practice.

This guide empowers CBO college advisors to support students on their college transfer journeys by focusing on five key success factors: providing clear and timely advisement, building strong relationships with college admissions personnel, designing comprehensive transfer programs, utilizing data to inform decision-making, and continuously enhancing their professional development. By adopting a student-centered approach, streamlining the transfer process, and providing essential emotional support, advisors can help students navigate the complexities of transferring and achieve their academic goals.

Access our project brief for key takeaways from our program, including highlights from the forum conversation with Dr. Logue of the Graduate Center, CUNY, and questions for community-based organizations to consider if they are planning to incorporate transfer support into their success work.

The PASE Explorers program offers activities that allow 4th – 6th grade youth in afterschool programs to experience global learning through local exploration. PASE Explorers provides young people the opportunity to explore the strengths of their own and other neighborhoods through activities such as neighborhood mapping; interviewing; digital photography projects; oral, written and digital presentations; and reflection exercises, among others. Through this experience, youth are able to see the larger context of the world in which they live. At the same time, this approach helps young people build skills essential to be successful global citizens including critical thinking, technology, teamwork, creativity, and communication.

A comprehensive tool for afterschool practitioners to use in assessing and articulating their programs' impact on youth. This inventory represents a collective effort to identify a full realm of outcomes for children and youth and present these outcomes in clear and accessible language. Programs can use this inventory to communicate their impact to variety of stakeholders as well as to more readily identify and measure this positive impact.

Introduce young people in programs to healthy eating habits with easy recipes and activities compiled from afterschool programs in New York City. To ensure that snack time is easy, filling, educational, and fun, this cookbook includes easy to prepare recipes that require no cooking or special training and that can be done in regular program space.

Designed to introduce young people to the myriad opportunities that exist in the professional art world, and the many paths that can be followed to become an arts professional, the Guide includes profiles of professional artists, descriptions of nearly one hundred arts professions, key terms to know in the arts, and a directory of free and low-cost resources in all five boroughs of New York City.

Using existing literature and research, PASE created College Prep Milestones, age-specific milestones for use by afterschool programs. The Milestones charts are organized by a student's stage in the college prep process and outline the academic and social-emotional readiness knowledge, skills, or preparedness critical to college success. The Milestones also includes activity ideas and sample lesson plans that afterschool programs may incorporate to support achievement of these benchmarks. This updated version includes an extended college years section and updated resoruces.

Self assessment tool for programs that focuses on indicators of college prep programming effectiveness in a variety of college preparation & completion domains for both middle school and high school youth. Programs can use the CPPAT to identify priorities & strategize any potential changes related to their college prep programming.

Now with updated resources, this guide is designed to be used by all staff of afterschool programs that currently provide college prep or college access activities for middle and high school youth and for those programs who wish to add college prep or college access activities.