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.