Collaboration

Additional Resources

Partnerships, Alliances and Coordination Techniques (PACT) Initiative
This initiative of the National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) provides policymakers the resources, training, and technical assistance to build more comprehensive and collaborative early care and education systems for children and families.

Peer Communication Strategies To Support Extended-Day learning Opportunities
This issue brief provides examples of how school board members can become more effective messengers and opinion shapers on the concept of after-school programs and other extended-day learning opportunities.

Building Partnerships for Extended-Day Learning Opportunities
This issue brief provide examples on how school board members can help build and can champion various types of partnerships to sustain quality after-school programs.

Building Partnerships for Extended-Day Learning Opportunities
This issues brief examines how school board members can help build and champion various partnerships to sustain quality after-school programs.

A Guide to Sucessful Public-Private Partnerships for Out-of-School Time
This guide from the Finance Project provides practical information on creating and maintaining public-private partnerships to increase and improve after-school initiatives.

Building and Sustaining Citywide Afterschool Initiatives
Experiences of the Cross-Cities Network Citywide Afterschool Initiatives from the National Institute on Out-of-School Time.

Creating a Vision for Afterschool Partnerships
This tool is intended to help new afterschool partnerships create a shared vision for their work. It contains information to educate partners on what a vision statement is and the purpose it serves.

Challenges and Opportunities in After-School Programs: Lessons for Policymakers and Funders
Public/Private Ventures gives ideas for policy makers and funders on how to offer high-quality youth development programs in school buildings through partnerships between local school districts and community-based organizations (CBOs) and universities.

Community Education and Social Capital
Recently the term 'social capital' has re-emerged as a concept that has strong relevance to community educators. As a concept that existed primarily in the world of sociology, social capital adds an important dimension to the theory and practice of Community Education in building partnerships between school and community.

Coordination, Collaboration and Networking
This task brief examines out-of-school networking, relationship building between community organizations and the public, city-school collaborations and neighborhood-based coordination.

Focus on Partnerships - Finding Common Ground
An eight-page "Afterschool Issues" brief from the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) that examines the partnerships between districts and after-school programs.

Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School
This guide presents best practices on how to build the capacity of after school programs through engaging families.

Helping Young People Succeed
This paper focuses on strengthening and sustaining relationships between schools and youth development organizations.

Leadership and Political Will
This task brief from the Forum for Youth Investment closely examines community engagement strategies used by city leaders to help build support for after-school programs.

Leadership, Program Quality and Sustainability
This 35-page paper from Policy Studies Associates examines strategies for sustaining school-linked after-school programs in order to help practitioners, funders, and policy makers.

Local Intermediary Organizations: Connecting the Dots for Children, Youth, and Families
This brief is intended to introduce policy makers and program developers to local intermediary organizations and to demonstrate the potential of these organizations in helping local communities achieve important policy goals.

Moving an Out-of-School Agenda: Lessons and Challenges Across Cities
This 38-page book from the Forum for Youth Investment describes the Greater Resources for After-School Programming (GRASP). GRASP aims to develop community engagement tools and engage selected communities in a planning process for improved opportunities for out-of-school time.

Public Will and Constituency Engagement
This task brief from the Forum for Youth Investment looks at the critical factors in engaging the public in after-school issues and how to frame the issues.

Strengthening Partnerships: Community School Assessment Checklist
This tool contains a series of checklists to assist school and community leaders in creating and/or strengthening community school partnerships.

The Family Participation in After-School Study: Report of Survey Results
In order to learn more about the ways in which after-school programs involve families, the Institute for Responsive Education, with a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, launched this research initiative. This first phase of research involved conducting a survey of after-school programs to learn what efforts programs undertake to encourage family involvement. The results of this research are presented in this report.

The Power of Partnerships
This report from the George Lucas Educational Foundation discusses the positive effects of the unique partnership between New York City's schools and the Children's Aid Society.

When School is Out, Museums, Parks and Libraries are In
This issue of the Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary series explores the unique resources these groups bring to the table, featuring examples of cutting edge practice and partnerships and highlighting current policy opportunities and challenges.