Out of School Time

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) will use this award to improve its Trauma Recovery Program, which provides mental health services to youth who have experienced abuse, violence or neglect.

Groundswell will use this award to train their teaching artists to better identify and appropriately address the disruptive behavior of some of the program participants.

Rockaway Artists Alliance will use this award to improve and update services offered to children with special needs who attend the KidsmArt After-School program.

Love Heals will use this award to improve the Speakers Bureau Program, which sends health educators and youth speakers to public schools and community organizations to make presentations and conduct workshops on HIV/AIDS prevention.

Support was given to generate awareness of best practices, research, and successful models of after-school programs.

Support was given to the Campaign for Educational Equity’s state-wide Task Force on Comprehensive Educational Opportunity.

Support was given to chronicle the ten-year history of state funding for after-school programs in California, with particular emphasis on the events preceding the Proposition 49 campaign.

Youth Today will continue to expand and build platforms for their coverage of youth issues.

New Haven Ecology Project (NHEP) will use this award to ensure consistent program quality for all of their middle school programs.

iMentor will use this award to improve the Alumni Pairs (AP) component of their New York City mentoring program by hiring a full-time AP program coordinator.