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).
Required Documents
Kansas Afterschool Program Quality Guidelines and Self-Assessment Tools
Core Competencies for Early Childhood and Youth Development Professionals
Get Started
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
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
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
Guidelines & Assessment
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
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
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