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This policy agenda highlights the need for expanded quality afterschool opportunities in New York State, and provides key policy recommendations for achieving afterschool for all.

This policy brief builds on the examples of other leading states and localities and describes how New York could create a more efficient system that would both increase access to and improve the quality of afterschool opportunities throughout the state.

This issue brief describes the relationship between afterschool programs and the business community, and describes how a partnership between the two can support working families and develop tomorrow’s workforce.

This fact sheet details the value of afterschool programs from advancing student achievement to crime prevention to supporting working families.

New York State Afterschool Network (NYSAN) is a statewide public-private partnership dedicated to promoting young people's safety, learning and healthy development outside the traditional classroom.

The brief provides highly detailed information about New York’s major public funding streams for afterschool, as well as remaining needs and existing barriers to improving afterschool programs. The brief also outlines key recommendations for developing a strong, statewide afterschool system in New York.

This brief articulates the value and impact of high-quality summer learning opportunities; spotlights exemplary programs already operating in New York State, and recommends strategies to expand and enhance these types of programs.

This policy brief provides an overview of the benefits to high school graduation; describes the New York State context; links afterschool to factors that improve high school graduation rates; and recommends a number of policies that can forge a stronger partnership between schools and afterschool programs in addressing this issue.

In order to ensure all aspects of children's well-being through young adulthood, New York State must build a system of support for the "whole child" in which all children and youth have full and equitable opportunities to be healthy, safe, engaged, and prepared from "cradle to career." The pillars of a system include not only an excellent public education system, but robust early care and education (ECE) programs and high-quality afterschool learning and development opportunities.

This guide offers detailed information about learning, development, and training opportunities for afterschool professionals in New York State.

This report provides information on how practitioners use the QSA Tool and the outcomes of self-assessment on their programs.

This executive summary of the NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool Survey Report provides information on how practitioners use the QSA Tool and the outcomes of self-assessment on their programs.

Physical health and wellness are among the core developmental needs critical to child well-being, and afterschool programs are venues that can support good health by providing nutritious food, creating opportunities for physical activity, and offering health education. This policy brief will focus on the issues related to child and youth health, the resources afterschool programs provide, and how to expand the role of afterschool programs to better promote healthy physical development.

The New York State Afterschool Network's (NYSAN) Program Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool is an instrument used by program providers to assess the quality of and make improvements to their out-of-school time programs. This User's Guide complements use of the QSA Tool by providing practical strategies and examples from afterschool practitioners on best practices related to self-assessment and program improvement. The QSA Tool is also included in the User’s Guide.

The QSA Tool is intended to help program leaders and staff, in collaboration with other stakeholders, to better understand the indicators of a high-quality program and reflect on all aspects of their program's operation. The QSA Tool can be used by a wide variety of programs, including both school and community-based programs that operate before and after school, and during summers and other school breaks.