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Please visit the following sites to learn more about positive youth development and current research on the importance of out-of-school time.

The Forum for Youth Investment

Minnesota Afterschool Alliance

From the Committee on Community-Level Programs for Youth, a project of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine:
Community Programs to Promote Youth Development Executive Summary

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Youth Engagement And Voice.org

Harvard Family Research Project

• The Evaluation Exchange (Harvard Family Research Project's quarterly evaluation periodical Volume IX, No. 1, Spring 2003
  
  
• Issue Topic: Evaluating Out-of-School Time
  
  
• Brief # 6: Moving Beyond the Barriers: Attracting and Sustaining Youth Participation in Out-of-School Time Programs
  
  
• Brief # 7: Understanding and Measuring Attendance in Out-of-School Time Programs This brief reviews developmental research and out-of-school time program evaluations to examine three indicators of youth attendance in OST programs - intensity, duration, and breadth - and offers a few different models for how youth's attendance can influence their outcomes.
  

An in-depth look at the current state of Minnesota's support for youth development organizations and programs - a new report released by the Minnesota Council on Foundations:
Supporting Minnesota's Youth: The State of the State's Youth Development Funding

After-School Program Publications by Public/Private Ventures