The Michigan After-School Partnership strives to be a statewide resource for critical issues affecting after-school. We can share research, fact sheets and reports to improve the field of out-of-school time and youth development.
The
Michigan After-School Initiative (MASI) Report
– Download Michigan’s first statewide report on after-school.
Afterschool Alliance
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Issue Briefs: Learn more about the need for after-school, outcomes of after-school, the 21st CCLC program model, and related topics such as literacy, rural communities, youth with special needs, university partnerships and more.
Year in Review
: Reflect on the successes and challenges that the after-school community faced in 2007. This new publication from the Afterschool Alliance presents a sampling of the year's research, funding news, efforts to enhance quality and more.
Polling Data
: View four years of public opinion polling data conducted by the Afterschool Alliance, including information from an audio conference on polling and policy data.
The Michigan After-School Partnership
Fact Sheet
provides relevant data on after-school including information regarding how high-quality after-school programs:
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Improve student achievement
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Keep kids healthy and safe
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Reduce the cost of child care, welfare, and crime
A study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Policy Studies Associates, Inc. finds that regular participation in high-quality after-school programs is linked to significant gains in standardized test scores and work habits as well as reductions in behavior problems among disadvantaged students. These gains help offset the negative impact of a lack of supervision after school. The two-year study followed almost 3,000 low-income, ethnically diverse elementary and middle school students from eight states in six major metropolitan centers and six smaller urban and rural locations. About half of the young people attended high-quality after-school programs at their schools or in their communities. Download the study, Outcomes Linked to High-Quality Afterschool Programs: Longitudinal Findings from the Study of Promising Afterschool Programs.
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