All posts tagged "out-of-school time and afterschool"

Top Headlines 8/16

Child Welfare Number of Oklahoma kids in custody rising. Examining the links between child welfare services and sex trafficking. Experts urge patience...

After School Programs: Managing Risks and Limiting Liabilities

With a life-threatening peanut allergy, Mason Machiewicz’s mom, Alissa, keeps a strict peanut-free home. Having just completed her search for a private...

Risk Management Planning: A Basic Checklist for Youth Protection

When taking a critical look at risk categories, the Nonprofit Risk Management Center provides the following advice: Personnel and participants are a...

Insurance Shopping: Questions and Consideration

While a thoughtful policy and procedure manual will help manage an after-school program’s risk, the program should also consider what kinds of...

Opening School Facilities to Private Youth Programs — A Legal Analysis

In his overview analysis, Professor Tom Baker wrote that “public schools in most states are subject to liability in some situations that...

Resources

Melanie Lockwood Herman, executive director of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, suggests employee handbooks, another important piece to limiting liability, include the...

Workshops help young adults crack job market

Teen workers at Ironworks Cafe, part of a teen employment program at the Goodman Community Center in Madison, Wis. (credit: leedav / Flickr, CC)   SPRING...

Where Teens Seek Online Privacy Advice

Childhood Economic Strains in Predicting Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood

Fixing Education Takes More than Fixing Schools

Thirty years ago, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released the seminal report, “A Nation At Risk,” highlighting a dangerous and...

Tackling Sports Safety Head On

Spencer Helgren, 16, (pictured above and below) a high school football player from Westwood High School in the Upper Peninsula, Mich., suffered...

Adding Camp to the School Reform Toolbox

When Miami Heat star LeBron James was asked what helped him win his second straight NBA championship, he emphasized, “The hard work...

Expanded Learning: The New Key to Increase Student Achievement

Experts say partnership, data-sharing and professional development poise providers to help students and schools increase achievement At PS/MS 188, a middle school on...

Top Headlines 8/12

Child Welfare NPR ombudsman finds ethics violations in network’s coverage of Indian Child Welfare case. Massachusetts leaves more kids in problem homes,...

New Opportunities for Interest-Driven Arts Learning in a Digital Age

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013

Better Together: Building Local Systems to Improve Afterschool

Association Between Exposure to Suicide and Suicidality Outcomes in Youth

Characteristics of Pregnant Teen Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions

Changes in Prevalence of Parent-reported Autism Spectrum Disorder in School-aged U.S. Children: 2007 to 2011–2012