Travis County Afterschool Network

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Best Me: A Resilience Building After School Curriculum for Children 5-12 Years Old
by L. Lawrence Riccio, et al
Bringing Yourself to Work: A Guide to Successful Staff Development in After-School Programs by Michelle Seligson, Patricia Stahl
The Complexity of Connection : Writings from the Stone Center's Jean Baker Miller Training Institute by Judith V. Jordan
Ready-To-Use Activities for Before and After School Programs
by Verna Stassevitch, et al

Reports

21st Century Community Learning Centers: Providing Quality Afterschool Learning Opportunities

1999 Annual National Drug Survey

1999 Mott Foundation/JCPenney Poll

1999 National Household Survey on Substance Abuse

2000 Afterschool Alliance Poll

Addressing the Problem of Juvenile Bullying

A Decade of Results: The Impact of the LA’s BEST After School Enrichment Program on Subsequent Student Achievement and Performance

American Fact Finder

America's Afterschool Choice: The Prime Time for Juvenile Crime or Youth Enrichment and Achievement

America's Child Care Crisis A Crime Prevention Tragedy

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2000

Assessing the New Federalism: Federal Expenditures on Children: 1960-1997

Back to School Poll

Before and After Learning and Safe Partnerships Program Report

Before It's Too Late

Census 2000

Census Data

Child Care Patterns For School-Age Children with Employed Mothers

Child Care Quality: Does It Matter and Does It Need to be Improved?

Child Care Safety Study

City Voices, Children's Needs: New Ways of Taking Action

Child Well-Being Indicators--Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

Drop in Teen Birth Rate Not Cause For Complacency

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Economics of Child Care

Educational Research Service

Federal Activities Addressing Violence in Schools

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
Federal Statistics

FTC Media Violence Report 11

Growth of Youth Gang Problems in the United States: 1970-98

Key Research Issues and Questions: Parental Payments and Demand for Child Care

Legal Information Institute - Supreme Court Decisions

Long-term Effects of an Early Childhood Intervention on Educational Achievement and Juvenile Arrest

Mentoring: A Promising Strategy for Youth Development

Out-of-School Time School-Age Care

Participation of Kindergartners Through Third Graders in Before- and After-School Care

Principals and After School Programs: A Survey of Pre K - 8 Principals

School Readiness: Helping Communities Get Children Ready for School and Schools Ready for Children

Search Institute

State Estimates of Organized Child Care Facilities

Strengthening America's Families, Effective Family Programs for Prevention of Delinquency

The Latest in Parent Involvement

Updated Research on School Readiness

Use of Continuous Improvement and Evaluation in Before- and After-School Programs

Violence After School

Welfare Reform's Impact on Adolescents: Early Warning Signs

Listservs and E-Newsletters

There are electronic mailing lists and periodic newsletters on just about everything that has to do with afterschool. Here are some of the most popular ones among educators, school-age care providers, and youth development workers. Give some of them a try!

Promising Practices in Afterschool Listserv
The Promising Practices in Afterschool Listserv is a virtual community of afterschool program staff, youth workers, school-age care providers, educators, researchers, policymakers, and others with an interest in keeping up-to-date on the latest in afterschool.

Afterschool Advocate
The Afterschool Advocate is the newletter produced for the Afterschool Alliance. To sign up send an email to afterschooladvocate@prsolutionsdc.com with your organization/program, address of program, phone number, fax number, and email address.

America Learns Monthly Literacy Strategies
Sign up to receive monthly strategies created by literacy volunteers around the country. Sponsored by America Learns, an organization that ensures that children served by literacy volunteers receive superior support.

Caring for Kids E-Newsletter
A bi-weekly newsletter published by Kinderstreet Corporation. Focused on news, events, methods, best-practices, legislation, and other topics specific to out-of-school time and early childhood programs.

Children Now Publications and Resources
Children Now is a research and action organization dedicated to assuring that children grow up in economically secure families, where parents can go to work confident that their children are supported by quality health coverage, a positive media environment, a good early education, and safe, productive things to do after school. Allows one to sign up to contribute to campaigns.

Coalition for Community Schools Newsletter
Coalition for Community Schools e-mail newsletter provides up-to-do date information on conferences and research on issues pertaining to community schools.

Connect for Kids
Free electronic newsletters from the Benton Foundation--The Weekly and Connections. Packed full of links to resources, articles, news, and more.

Education Week
Sign up to receive the Ed Week Update, Career Coach, Teacher Recruiter, or Teacher Magazine Update.

Family Education Company
The Family Education Company is an internet information service for both parents and schools. Through their E-mail Center you will be able to select from a number of free email newsletters on youth and education topics.

FINE Forum E-Newsletter
The FINE Forum is a biannual e-newsletter that profiles program models and promising practices to engage families and communities. It highlights the voices of diverse stakeholders in family-school partnerships, including parents, teachers, students, school and community leaders, and university faculty.

KIDCARE
National Network for Child Care's public e-mail discussion group.

National Network for Child Care Newsletter
The National Network for Child Care publishes three newsletters for child care providers. One is for providers who offer day care in their homes, the second is for those who operate child care centers, and the third is for those who offer before and afterschool programming.

National Organizations for Youth Safety
NOYS is a network that promotes collaboration at the national, state, and local levels. The current NOYS emphasis areas are highway safety, violence prevention, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug issues among youth ages 5-24.

National Youth Development Information Center Newsletter
NYDIC provides practice-related information about youth development to national and local youth-serving organizations at low cost or free of charge.

Newsblast
Contentbank.org has launched the Newsblast, a weekly e-mail news service focused on Web content of interest to those working with underserved communities. The Newsblast covers stories about new multilingual or culturally specific content, and Web information created for users with limited-literacy skills.

Out-of-School Time Resource Center
The purpose of the listserve will be to inform colleagues of new or revised OSTRC publications, upcoming and ongoing opportunities, research updates, and similar announcements.

RFP Bulletin
The RFP (Request for Proposals) Bulletin provides a brief overview of a current funding opportunity offered by a foundation or other grantmaking organization. Read the weekly bulletins online or subscribe to the electronic newsletter.

SAC-L
SAC-L is a discussion list for anybody interested in school-age care planning, resources, activities, funding, staff and staff development, and related subjects. SAC-L is co-owned by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) (formerly the School-Age Child Care Project) at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College and by the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois.

Stateline.org
Stateline.org was founded in order to help journalists, policy makers, and engaged citizens become better informed about innovative public policies.

The Future of Children
The Future of Children promotes effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research.

U.S. Department of Education Community Update
Community Update is the U.S. Department of Education's monthly newsletter for parents, educators, and community partners involved in efforts to improve education. Community Update puts its readers in touch with resources, services and publications for increasing student learning.

YouthLearn List
An electronic mailing list sponsored by YouthLearn for youth development professionals, teachers, educators, and other caring adults to share information on learning programs enhanced with technology.

Newsletters - Travis County Providers

Heart House Afterschool Newsletter

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