Georgia School Age Care Association

As the only statewide, full-service resource for school-age programs striving to produce healthy, academically successful, productive young people, we are dedicated to improving the quality of out-of-school time. Policymakers and community members are critical partners in this effort and we desperately needed to your help in understanding and advocating for accessible quality programming for all Georgia’s children and youth. In addition to GSACA’s advocacy work, one of the ways we try to increase school age capacity is by providing policy makers and communities with the tools and resources needed to support quality after school programming.

Provided within these pages are resources and publications that you may find helpful.

Please frequent our web-site listings as we will be adding new resources and publications often!

In addition, GSACA members are provided access to our growing resource library which includes publications, tapes, books, materials and activity kits all geared toward school agers and their caretakers.

Please click here for more information about our lending library.

Links to other resources are on our links page.

Links to Learning – Supporting Learning in Out-of-School Time Programs Video available through the National Institute on Out-of-School Time and the Wallace Readers Digest Funds. This lively video aimed at practitioners and policy makers delivers a clear message about the unique role after-school programs play in supporting children’s learning and development.

The Human Side of Quality Video available through the National Institute on Out-of-School Time focuses on the importance of having staff who are skilled knowledgeable and caring in high quality after school programs (Part 1 in series).

Uncertain Times: Funding Insecurity Puts Afterschool Programs at Risk, a recent survey of afterschool programs by the Afterschool Alliance, finds that afterschool programs are serving a high need population, serving more children than expected, and struggling to maintain their funding. Nearly all respondents say that more children in their communities could benefit from afterschool programs, if they were available. Fewer than half of afterschool programs say their funding is fully secure for the next two years and just one in five has secure funding for three to five years.

www.afterschoolalliance.org/Uncertain_Times.cfm
Full report released in October 2006:

Georgia School Age Care Association
246 Sycamore Street, Suite 252, Decatur, GA 30030
Phone: (404)373-7414 Fax: (404)373-7428
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Policy Makers and Community Resources & Publications