After School Program
The mission of the After School and Out of School Program is to expand the range of choices and opportunities that enable, empower, and encourage youth to:
- Achieve positive growth and development;
- Improve expectations and capacities for future success;
- Avoid and/or reduce risk-taking behavior.
The goals and objectives of the After School and Out of School Program are:
- To improve participants’ performance through academic enrichment activities.
- Improve participants’ attendance in school;
- Improve or maintain participants’ grades in school;
- Maintain participants’ academic promotion;
- Prevent participants’ premature or unscheduled exit from school prior to high school graduation.
- To provide opportunities for learning positive social skills, demonstrating positive social interactions, and building positive social relationships through supervised sports, recreation, and other program activities.
- Provide opportunities for participants to learn social skills.
- Provide opportunities for participants to demonstrate positive social skills.
- Provide opportunities for participants to build positive social relationships.
- Provide opportunities for participants to engage in cultural enrichment activities.
- To provide opportunities for demonstrating positive social behaviors through adult and peer mentoring.
- Develop and sustain a sufficient pool of peer and adult mentors.
- Maintain high quality of peer and adult mentoring skills.
- Improve social interactions and contacts between mentors and participants.
- To adopt positive decision-making skills that discourages harmful risk-taking behaviors.
- Improve participants’ career aspirations and choices.
- Reduce/avoid harmful risk-taking behaviors among participants.
- Demonstrate improved decision-making skills among participants.
To provide opportunities for parents and guardians to meet with staff to discuss their children’s participation to strengthen parent/child bonds and community involvement.