QUALITY GUIDELINES
In 2011, the Kansas Quality Afterschool Leadership Team developed a framework, guidelines, and self-assessment tool to aid program staff in providing high quality services for youth. A second edition of the quality guidelines and self-assessment was created in 2018 with the support of the Quality Afterschool Workgroup. The 2021 update brings up to date guidelines and a version of the self-assessment that is further aligned with the Core Competencies for Early Childhood and Youth Development Professionals (Kansas and Missouri).
Resources
KEN Quality Improvement Process
KEN Continuous Quality Improvement Planning Tool
Required Documents
Kansas Afterschool Program Quality Guidelines and Self-Assessment Tools
Core Competencies for Early Childhood and Youth Development Professionals
Get Started
Take the Online Assessment
Printable Guideline & Assessment (PDF)
Resources
- Staffing Out-of-School Time Programs in the 21st Century
- Staffing the Program
- A Practitioner’s Guide: Building and Managing Quality Afterschool Programs
- Getting It Right
- Kansas Department of Health and Environment (licensing)
- Union County Public Schools (manual/policy examples)
- Utah 4H Afterschool Guide
- Keys to Quality Afterschool: Environments, Relationships and Experiences
- Beyond the Bell
Take the Online Assessment
Printable Guidelines & Assessments (PDF)
Resources
- Child & Adult Care Food Program
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service
- Food Research & Action Center
- The National Center for Quality Afterschool – curriculum for Art, Homework, Literacy, Math, Science, Technology
- Taking a Deeper Dive into Afterschool: Positive Outcomes and Promising Practices
- Afterschool Curriculum Planning Resource Toolkit
- Concept to Classroom: Key principles of developing an afterschool curriculum
- Kids Activities
- Youth Impact: A LEARNS Resource
- Youth.gov
- Keys to Quality Afterschool: Environments, Relationships and Experiences
- Hart’s Ladder
- Y4Y: Project Based Learning
- CAN: Promising Practices in High School After School Programs
- NAA: Project Based Learning
- National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
Take the Online Assessment
Printable Guidelines & Assessment (PDF)
Resources
- Building Supportive Relationships in Afterschool
- NAA: 4 Easy Strategies to Build Supportive Afterschool Relationships (Webinar)
- NAA: 10 Tips Building Relationships with Youth
- Tips for Building Relationships with Youth
- Afterschool Network: Communicates and Develops Positive Relationships with Youth
- Teaching Tolerance: Authentic Relationships
- You for Youth (Y4Y) Family Engagement Implementation
- Building Youth – Adult Relationships (Students at the Center)
- Example of Parent Handbook
- PTA National Standards for Family-School Partnerships
- PTA National Standards for Family-School Partnerships: An Implementation Guide
- Kansas Education Systems Accreditation – Framework: The Five R’s
Take the Online Assessment
Printable Guidelines & Assessment (PDF)
Resources
- REACH: Supportive Relationships with Adults
- Afterschool Alliance: Afterschool and partnerships
- The Expanded Learning & Afterschool Project: Top Ten Ways to Build School and Community Partnerships
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- Program Newsletter Template
- Social Media Tips
- Four Takeaways from STEM Programs That Empower Families
Take the Online Assessment
Printable Guidelines & Assessment (PDF)
Resources
- Kansas Department of Health and Environment (licensing)
- NAA: Professional Development
- NJ STEM Pathways Network: Cultural Competencies
- Research-to-Results Child Trends
- National Center for Quality Afterschool: Afterschool Training Tool
- Statewide Afterschool Network Professional Development
- Child Trends Professional Development
- New York State Afterschool Network: Professional Development, Resources, and Considerations
- Teaching Tolerance: Professional Development
- You for Youth (Y4Y): Afterschool Toolkit
- Beyond the Bell
Additional Documents
