Promoting Positive Development through Efficacious After School Programs

描述（由申请人提供）：校外时间（OST）计划已被证明对青少年的认知、社会情感、行为和身体健康结果有积极影响（例如，Durlak和Weissberg, 2007; Lauer, Akiba, Wilkerson, Apthorp, Snow, and Martin-Glenn, 2006； Little和Harris, 2003; Society for Research on Child Development, 2008）。OST项目的普及，现在为全国650多万儿童提供服务，联邦和州对此类项目的资金增加，伴随着对高质量和基于证据的项目的需求，这些项目可以充分发挥这一重要发展背景的潜力（Afterschool Alliance, 2004； SRCD, 2008； U.S. Department of Education, 2001）。拟议项目的总体目标是确定并为OST专业人员和其他从事儿童工作的人员提供方便的OST方案，这些方案被证明对改善青少年的认知、社会情感、行为和身体健康结果有效。为此，主要目标是开发一套全面的复制资源，包括：1。ASPARA (After School Program Archive to Raise Achievement)，一个有效的OST项目档案，由标准化的复制包组成，包含在新网站上复制有效项目所需的所有材料，如教师指南、课程、培训视频、家长材料、活动讲义和原始评估工具；2. 一个在线项目选择工具，指导OST专业人员根据实际标准，如目标人群、项目目标和项目设置，在ASPARA中选择最有效的项目；和3。多媒体专业发展教程，通过提供有关OST背景和研究基础、项目选择和改编以及评估方法的信息，支持有效项目的实施。项目人员将利用一个有序的、迭代的过程来识别和打包有效的OST程序，并开发辅助资源以促进其使用。总的来说，在这个项目的支持下开发的资源将增加获得有效的OST项目的便利，以进行更广泛的复制和评估，并为面临这些项目实施的OST人员提供专业发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Out-of-school time (OST) programs have been shown to have positive effects on young people's cognitive, social-emotional, behavioral, and physical health outcomes (e.g., Durlak and Weissberg, 2007; Lauer, Akiba, Wilkerson, Apthorp, Snow, and Martin-Glenn, 2006; Little and Harris, 2003; Society for Research on Child Development, 2008). The prevalence of OST programs, now serving over 6.5 million of the nation's children, and the increase in federal and state funds for such programs, comes with a concomitant demand for high quality and evidence-based programs that can realize the full potential of this important developmental context (Afterschool Alliance, 2004; SRCD, 2008; U.S. Department of Education, 2001). The overall objective of the proposed project is to identify and provide OST professionals and others who work with children with easy access to OST programs shown to be efficacious in improving young people's cognitive, social-emotional, behavioral, and physical health outcomes. Toward this end, the primary aims are to develop a comprehensive set of replication resources including: 1. ASPARA (After School Program Archive to Raise Achievement), a program archive of efficacious OST programs, consisting of standardized replication kits containing all the materials necessary to replicate an efficacious program in a new site, such as teachers' guides, curricula, training videos, parent materials, activity handouts, and original evaluation instruments; 2. An Online Program Selection Tool to guide OST professionals in selecting the best efficacious program in ASPARA for their service context based on practical criteria, such as the population being targeted, program goals, and program setting; and 3. A Multimedia Professional Development Tutorial to support the implementation of efficacious programs by providing information on the OST context and research base, program selection and adaptation, and approaches to evaluation. Project staff will utilize a sequenced, iterative process to identify and package efficacious OST programs and develop the ancillary resources to facilitate their use. Collectively, the resources developed under the auspices of this project will increase ease of access to efficacious OST programs for purposes of broader replication and assessment, as well as professional development for OST staff faced with implementation of such programs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The resources developed under the auspices of this project will provide OST professionals with easy access to OST programs shown to be efficacious in improving young people's cognitive, social-emotional, behavioral, and health outcomes and facilitate the implementation and re-evaluation of these programs in new contexts.