Individualized System of Support for Afterschool Programs (ISS-AP) September 20, 2012 Fairlee, Vermont

Who’s in the room... Directors & New Directors Site Coordinators Program Staff

Who’s in the room... VCAE Team Holly Morehouse Director Karen Scott Project Manager for Quality Tracy Truzansky Project Manager for Training Erin RuitenbergProject Assistant for Membership & Development Cassie Willner Project Assistant for Communications & Partnerships

Who’s in the room... ISS-AP Coaches & Mentors Karen Scott Afterschool Essentials Tami StagnerNew Directors Holly MorehouseYPQI Tricia Pawlik & Julie Peterson Betsy StaceyYPQI – Middle School Luke Stafford & Christine Graham YPQI – Elementary Sustainability

Individualized System of Support for Afterschool Programs

Agenda 9:00 – 9:15 amWelcome 9:30 – 11:45 pmISS-AP Training – Part I 12:00 – 12:45 pmLunch (Middle School round table) 1:00 – 1:45 pmStatewide Announcements 2:00 – 3:45 pmISS-AP Training – Part II

Date: Friday, October 26th Location: Stoweflake Mountain Resort, Stowe Early-bird special - $25 off until October 1st

Date: October 18 th Goals: 1)Double the number of registered programs! 2)Sen. Sanders visiting programs

21C Statewide Evaluation Five year evaluation plan and – Baseline data and – Clear areas of strength and areas in need of attention noted

21C Statewide Evaluation Three Goal Areas: 1)Serving the neediest students 2)High quality, intentionally designed programs 3)State level support for programs

21C Statewide Evaluation Serving the Neediest Students Strength: Growth in the number of students served Highlights from the Report: C Participants (school-year and summer) 11,37713,20914,63815,550 21C Regular Attendees 4,2904,9545,6216,176 21C Low-income Regular Attendees (based upon F&R lunch status) 2,3242,7523,0873,352

21C Statewide Evaluation Serving the Neediest Students Needs Attention: 43% of sites do not meet target around regular attendees 54% of sites do not meet target for high-risk regular attendees Highlights from the Report:

21C Statewide Evaluation Total 21C Participants Total Regular Attendees – 60 60% Total F&R Regular Attendees – 35 58% School F&R Lunch Rate: 45%

21C Statewide Evaluation Sufficient Dosage Strength: Increase in the number of programs that offer programming at least 32 weeks per year Highlights from the Report: Needs Attention: Number of programs operating 5 days per week and 14 hours per week

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21C Statewide Evaluation Summer Programming Strength: Increase in number of summer programs Days per week and hours per week meet targets Highlights from the Report: Needs Attention: 36% of projects do not offer summer programming No. of weeks summer programming is offered is low

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21C Statewide Evaluation Program Leadership/ Qualified Staff Strength: High level of expertise among directors and site coordinators Highlights from the Report: Needs Attention: Only 50% of sites meet target around having 1/3 licensed teachers as staff

21C Statewide Evaluation Community Partners Strength: One-half of Vermont’s programs meet the target of having two or more community partnerships. Highlights from the Report: Needs Attention: National average is six community partners.

21C Statewide Evaluation Action Items for : 1)Build up regular attendees, focus on high- risk students 2)Add summer programming to all projects and increase the number of weeks offered 3)Increase the percent of teachers working in programs 4)Build new community partnerships

21C Statewide Evaluation Questions: Do you see trends that can be explained through programming changes? What could you do this year to impact the areas in need of attention? And review for errors!

21C Statewide Evaluation Where to go from here.... Evaluation Technical Assistance VTDOE Evaluation Workshop Series

Vermont Center for Afterschool Excellence Holly Morehouse Lynne Feal-Staub