AFA Council Meetings and Work Groups for 2011

The AFA Advisory Council has set its meeting dates and times for 2011.
The following meetings will be held at the DCYF office at 1390 Market St, Suite 900. As a courtesy, please contact mhopson@dcyf.org a few days prior if you plan to attend the meeting.

Feb 16th from 9-11am
Apr 20th from 9-11am
May 18th from 9-11am

The Advisory Council has used work groups of volunteers to move its work forward and ensure a broad group of voices are represented. These work groups were charged with making recommendations to guide the building of a citywide infrastructure to support out-of-school time programs. The work groups convening in 2011 are:

Vision & Alignment Work Group
The goal of this work group is to recommend 1) a citywide vision of afterschool in San Francisco, and 2) identify systemic ways for SFUSD to provide equitable access to quality afterschool programs for all SFUSD students in a way that is understood, embraced, and supported by parents, providers, and schools.

Objectives:

• Define a vision for out of school time in San Francisco and a tool for programs to report their progress on meeting that vision (such as a year-end report template aligned to the quality tools and 11 elements adopted by the AFA)
• Explore how to help SFUSD align its ExCEL K-8 programs and its Child Development School Age (K-5) programs in the areas of educational philosophy, materials, training for staff, assessment and evaluation.

Program Quality & Data Work Group

The goal of this work group is to recommend systems and supports to enhance the quality of out-of-school time programs, with a specific emphasis on: a) enhancing the shared understanding of quality in the OST field, and b) data sharing that promotes the delivery of high quality out-of-school time programming.

Objectives:

• Contribute to the development of a program quality self assessment tool for summer programs, which would complement the school-based and community-based afterschool quality self assessment tools developed for AFA
• Identify strategies to spread the core competencies in the field
• Explore systemic data sharing systems and practices that could enhance the quality of out-of-school time services

School-Out of School Time Integration Work Group

The goal of this work group is to recommend systems and supports to enhance out-of-school time and school age integration and coordination.

For more information about these work groups, send an email to mhopson@dcyf.org.