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Viewing After-School Programs Through the Family Impact Lens 1 Viewing After-School Programs Through the Family Impact Lens 2012
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Lee, Woon Kyung |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Interest in after-school programs has greatly increased during the past decade with federal funding reaching about $1 billion in FY 2008. With funding from the 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC), after-school programs are serving a large population of children and families from minority and low-income families. A family impact analysis reveals that after-school programs can support families in several ways. After-school programs can provide children with care and education while parents are at work, which can support parents’ efforts to balance work and family responsibilities. Evidence suggests that after-school programs can benefit academic outcomes, although not every program has proven to be effective. Programs also offer children and parents an opportunity to create beneficial informal social networks through relationships with program staff and other families. However, after-school programs themselves do not always engender such positive effects, and diverse factors such as program qualities and strategies for program-parent partnerships can lead to very different outcomes. A few exemplar programs exist and promising practices could improve parent-program partnerships. Yet we are still not aware of how many programs nationwide are based on family impact principles given insufficient efforts to apply a family impact lens to after-school programs. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/hdfs/fii/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/fia_analyses_vasptfil.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
