Out of School Time

Love Heals, which advocates for young people’s right to HIV/AIDS education, wants to improve its Leadership Empowerment and Awareness Program (LEAP) for Girls program.

Rocking the Boat provides on-water youth development, job skills training, program assistance, and weekly community rowing programs during the school day, after school, and summer to residents of Hunts Point and adjacent South Bronx neighborhoods.

Children of the City’s (COC) Create Success program provides academic enrichment, mentoring, and counseling services to 150 low-income youth in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Urban Arts Partnership (UAP) provides arts education to 55 New York City schools through arts integration, after-school, advanced studio, and various other programs.

Deutsch and Futch hypothesize that schools and youth programs are important settings for the formation of youth-adult relationships. They suggest that the quality, culture, and structure of these settings may facilitate or challenge the initiation and longevity of youth-adult relationships.

The National Summer Learning Association and the Forum for Youth Investment seek to increase alignment between the summer learning and after-school fields.

Foundation funds will be used to launch a new CSA organization comprised of retired and active professional athletes and coaches from various sports. These professional athletes will be advocates for research-informed youth programs.

How do staff at youth programs acquire and use research to inform their program designs and practices?

Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) wants to improve Tribeca Teaches, an in- and after-school residency program that teaches students basic filmmaking skills.

Summer on the Hill (SOH) wants to improve its grade 3–8 program, which provides 200 students recruited from New York City public schools with accelerated classes in language arts, math, science, and art along with guidance on school choices and SAT/ACT ...