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Check this page often for Illinois After-school News and Events.
If you have information to be included on this page, you can click here to let us know.
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Governor Signs the Afterschool Youth Development Program Act into Law: The Illinois After-school Alliance and the ACT Now! campaign is proud to let you know that Governor Quinn has signed the Afterschool Youth Development Program Act into law. This law will create a framework for coordinating and strengthening afterschool services in Illinois and work to supply providers with much needed technical assistance, including capacity building and program evaluation.
In addition to creating the statewide framework for afterschool programs, this law also creates the Illinois Youth Development Council which will coordinate and strengthen afterschool services throughout the state. It also establishes a demonstration program that will evaluate best practices, outcomes and cost of quality afterschool programs, while building up existing programs.
Proposed Changes to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) Initiative: Recently the U.S. Department of Education released A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The blueprint includes the Administration's proposed changes to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) initiative. Most notable and potentially harmful to afterschool are the proposals to reduce the funding for 21st CCLC by $13 million in the Administration's Fiscal Year 2011 budget proposal, and to switch 21st CCLC from a formula grant to competitive grants and open the funding stream to programs beyond 21st CCLC. Under the current Administration proposal, 21st CCLC funding would be consolidated to share the same funding stream as extended day programs and community schools. Please send your comments to Bela Shah Spooner at shah@nlc.org.
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After-school Investments Project Webinar: School-Age Professionals Go To Back To School: Community Colleges and the President’s Graduation Iniative
Date: September 8th
Time: 1:00-2:30PM EDT
During the event, Federal staff will discuss the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) priority on professional development and the workforce. Lori Connors-Tadros from Afterschool Investments Project (AIP) will share new resources for community college faculty, developed in collaboration with Child Care and Early Education Research Connections. The School-Age Faculty Module includes information, worksheets and activities that can be used by faculty in two and four-year institutions, and community-based trainings, to help the school-age workforce understand and use research to learn more about effective practice. Faculty and student representatives from Trident Community College (South Carolina) and Tulsa Community College (Oklahoma) will also share their experiences with developing new methods to support the afterschool workforce. The webinar event will conclude with an interactive question-and-answer session.
To register for the event, please visit: http://event.vcallinteraction.com/r.htm?e=234014&s=1&k=ABFD219980151E128337864968F560CC
Training: Positive Youth Development
Date: September 9th
Time: 9:00am-12:00pm
Location: Illinois Center for Violence Prevention
70 E Lake St., Sutie 720
Chicago, IL 60601
Price: $45 for non-members, $30 for members
Discount available for group rates
$15 late fee applied to enrollments after 9/9/2010
A Social Work CEU Credit is available for $15
One evidence based approach to reduce youth violence is positive youth development. This approach emphasizes fully preparing young people to succeed and contribute now and as adults, both building and sustaining youth’s ability to make choices that will positively impact their future-resulting in a reduction of risky or violent behavior. This workshop will provide concrete strategies and specific tools for creating cultures that promote positive youth development, whether in classrooms, after-school settings, or youth programs.
To register for this training, please visit: http://www.icvp.org/crt_cart.asp.
Training: Teen Dating Violence
Date: September 21st
Time: 12:00-3:00pm
Location: Illinois Center for Violence Prevention
70 E Lake St., Suite 720
Chicago, IL 60601
Price: $45 for non-members, $30 for members
Discount available for group rates
$15 late fee applied to enrollments after 9/9/2010
A Social Work CEU Credit is available for $15
This workshop provides information and resources in the area of healthy relationships and teen dating violence to compliment youth-oriented programming. Participants will learn to recognize teen dating violence and its underlying dynamics, address the unique risk and protective factors of relationship violence in adolescence, and integrate evidence-based, effective tools and hands-on activities into their programming.
To register for this training, please visit: http://www.icvp.org/crt_cart.asp
Webinar: Refuel Afterschool With Food and Fitness
Date: September 22nd
Time: 10:00-11:00am
This training will provide afterschool staff with the tools and confidence to add fun activities into their programs that teach kids from K-Grade 12 about eating right and being physically active. Participants will discover resources for integrating evidence-based nutrition education activities into core subjects, hands-on food and gardening activities that promote healthy eating, non-competitive games and activities to get kids moving, and ways to reach out to parents to reinforce healthy behaviors at home. Guest speakers will also share their success stories.
This is a free webinar training brought to you by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program and funded by USDA Team Nutrition.
To participate, please visit: http://www.kidseatwell.org/AfterschoolWebinar.html.
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Afterschool and Summer Learning Programs Make Learning Stick!: The Mott Foundation is proud to announce the launch of the Make It Stick campaign which showcases afterschool and summer learning programs across the country that are already making a difference. Leaders in afterschool and summer learning are critical to building robust content that can help your colleagues across the country make the case that high-quality afterschool and summer learning programs provide more of the following: young people with engaging learning opportunities tied to academics, collaboration between schools and communities, structure at the state level supporting innovation and improvement, research on what works, and what makes learning stick.
Please visit MakeItStick.org at http://makeitstick.org/san today to sign up for updates, share your stories, use the toolkit to spread the word and much more!
New Report- Quality Comes First: A Leadership Institute for the Managers of New York’s Afterschool Funding Initiatives (“the Institute”): New York State Afterschool Network (NYSAN) has announced the release of a new report that showcases an innovative professional development experience for public agency staff (Program Managers) who oversee New York State and City investments for after-school programs. In 2006, NYSAN found that Program Managers needed and wanted to expand their “toolbox” of techniques and skills for relating to their grantees and contractors, diagnosing barriers to program quality, providing coaching, improving cross-cultural communications, and other assistance. Between 2007 and 2010, the Institute served over seventy Program Managers from four public agencies; together, these Program Managers oversee over $300 million per year in grants distributed to hundreds of programs statewide.
NYSAN had three overarching objectives for the Institute:
- To build a coordinated system of high-quality afterschool programs by facilitating collaboration, information-sharing, and common language and practices among four key public agencies
- To support the Program Managers’ changing role from contract management and compliance officers to technical assistance providers
- To fill a gap in professional development opportunities for public agency staff who oversee funds granted to afterschool programs
To view the full report, please visit: http://nysan.org/content/document/detail/3100/.
New Resource on STEM Learning After School: The CBASS Frontiers in Urban Science Exploration Resource Guide: This new resource guide has been produced by Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS) to promote informal science education after-school. The Resource Guide describes Frontiers in Urban Science Exploration (FUSE), created by The After-School Corporation (TASC) to stimulate a culture shift that leads to greater opportunities for kids to experience informal science education after school, as well as in school and during summers. The guide, part of a national initiative to promote FUSE, presents promising STEM models from around the country and provides links and information about STEM research reports, curricula and evaluation resources. FUSE and this resource guide were developed with support from Noyce Foundation.
To view the Resource Guide, please visit: http://www.afterschoolsystems.org/content/document/detail/3040/.
News Resource: The Creativity Crisis: Newsweek has just released the article “The Creativity Crisis.” The article references the issue of American creativity being on the decline. The article showcases Professor E. Paul Torrance, who has developed a series of creativity tasks, which now have become the “gold standard” for assessing creativity level.
To view the complete article, please visit: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html.
Solutions Storytelling: Messaging to Mobilize Support for Children’s Issues: The Child Advocacy 360 Foundation created the Communications Catalyst Initiative to help get a variety of support for more robust strategic communication programs. The main goal of the Communications Catalyst Initiative is to show that stories about effective youth programs, or “solutions stories”, are necessary tools to educate and mobilize much needed support. Research has been conducted in order to determine how organizations can express their stories in ways that will expand their impact and create more public interest.
To view a recap of findings and the full report, please visit: http://www.childadvocacy360.com/files/images/CA_360_Exec__Summ__May_18_FinalI.pdf.
Also please visit the following website to view an additional related memo: http://www.childadvocacy360.com/files/images/SEARCH-5-10-2010-Strategies___Messages_final.pdf.
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National Conference: Science & Technology in Out-of-School Time
Date: September 22-24
Location: Los Angeles, CA
The 2010 National Conference for Science & Technology in Out-of-School Time will be co-hosted by the Coalition for Science After School and Project Exploration. For further information, please visit: www.scienceafterschoolconference.org.
Lights On Afterschool
Date: October 21st
Lights On Afterschool is celebrated nationwide to call attention to the importance of afterschool programs for America's children, families and communities. In America today, 1 in 4 youth -- 15.1 million children – are alone and unsupervised after school. Afterschool programs keep kids safe, help working families and inspire learning. They provide opportunities to help young people develop into successful adults.
Lights On Afterschool is a project of the Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that all children have access to quality, affordable afterschool programs. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has served as Chair of Lights On Afterschool since 2001.
The U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention have signed up for the nation’s biggest afterschool celebration, and the Empire State Building has announced that it again will light up in yellow in honor of Lights On Afterschool! Take part by opening your doors to show off what is happening after school.
Register now and you could win cool giveaways from FEIT ELECTRIC. You will also get free posters and event tips and updates. Our online toolkit makes it easy to plan an event, from a talent show to a large rally. Every site registered in August will be entered in a drawing to win 100 energy-saving, long lasting, earth-friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). Give the light bulbs to your event guests, use them at your program, or let kids take them home to remind parents how your program keeps the lights on after school.
To register, please visit: http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/loaHostEvent.cfm
National Conference on Summer Learning
Date: November 9-10
Location: Indianapolis Downtown Marriott
Learn how to improve summer programs at the The Summer Changes Everything National Conference hosted by the National Summer Learning Association in partnership with the Summer Youth Program Fund. Come and join keynote speaker, Dr. Judy Willis, for a Q&A session. Register by July 31st and you will be entered to one of twelve “You Can Do the Rubik’s Cube” kits. Please note that there is an optional pre-conference training institute on November 8th. If you sign up as a participant before Aug. 31, you'll be entered in a drawing to win a free night's stay at our conference hotel. Even better: The more friends you get to sign up for conference, the more chances you'll have to win!
For more information, please visit: http://www.summerlearning.org/?page=conference.
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