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Participation Over Time: Keeping Youth Engaged from Middle School to High School (Afterschool Matters, Fall 2010)
January 6, 2011
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Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time
Read about key strategies to promote OST program participation among older youth. The Wallace Foundation commissioned this report as part of its effort to help develop lessons relevant to cities on how to build systems that support high-quality out-of-school time programs.
This article appears in the Fall 2010 issue of Afterschool Matters, a journal published by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) that serves those involved in developing and running programs for youth during the out-of-school time hours, in addition to those engaged in research and shaping policy.
"Participation Over Time: Keeping Youth Engaged from Middle School to High School" draws on data collected for Engaging Older Youth—a recent study from Harvard Family Research Project and Public/Private Ventures, commissioned by the Wallace Foundation—of out-of-school time programs that successfully engage older youth and the strategies they use to maintain high participation rates.
The article sheds light on how a set of school- and community-based programs with high rates of participation address adolescents' developmental needs and how these programs change their strategies to support adolescents over time.