Afterschool

The DEA Red Ribbon Patch Program is designed to provide Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts the opportunity to earn a patch from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by engaging in anti-drug activities in celebration of Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon Week, which is celebrated annually on October 23-31, is the ...

This webpage provides updated COVID-19 guidance for K-12 schools and early care and education programs, as of August 11, 2022. Updates include:  Removed the recommendation to cohort  Changed recommendation to conduct screening testing to focus on high-risk activities during high COVID-19 Community Level or in response to an outbreak  Removed the recommendation to ...

This webpage answers frequently asked questions about monkeypox for administrators and staff of K-12 schools, early care and education (ECE) programs, camps, and other community settings serving children or adolescents (e.g., sports leagues, afterschool programs). Learn more. 

These latest findings from the School Pulse Panel (SPP) examine learning recovery, summer learning, staff vacancies, COVID-19 mitigation strategies, learning modes offered by schools, and student and staff quarantine prevalence as reported by school leaders in U.S. public schools. Learn more.  ...

This guide (PDF, 38 pages) identifies a broad variety of federal funding streams that providers, districts, summer and afterschool intermediaries, municipal government leaders, and state government leaders can tap to support equitable access to high-quality programs. Learn more. 

This report (PDF, 38 pages) is the fifth in a series of publications that examines findings from the 2020 edition of America After 3PM, a pre-pandemic national household survey of more than 31,000 parents of school-age children. It takes a closer look at parents’ perceptions of afterschool programs, their priorities ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated COVID-19 guidance for K-12 and early care and education (ECE) programs. The updated guidance includes recommendations for prevention strategies for everyday operations, as well as additional prevention strategies to adapt based on the COVID-19 Community Level (low, medium, or high) ...

This webpage offers strategies and examples of how caregivers can support their child’s physical and mental health with fun, easy summer activities. The strategies provided will help students prepare mentally, physically, and emotionally for the upcoming school year with activities that can be conducted alone or with others. Learn more.   ...

The Reconnecting Youth project seeks to pull together in one location information about programs that support young people who are disconnected and their practices as well as a repository of existing research with two new tools: a compendium of programs and an evidence gap map. Learn more. 

This brief, the second in a series of three from Fathers Incorporated addressing fatherhood engagement for low-income African American students and their families, is designed for academicians and practitioners to focus continued attention on recognizing a father's mental health and its impact on how well his child does in school. ...