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Afterschool Alliance, 2008
This 2-page resource describes the benefits of afterschool programs for children, youth, and families, including evidence of improved school attendance and engagement learning, improved test scores and grades, and students at greatest risk showing the greatest gains. Additional benefits of afterschool programs include keeping kids safe, healthy,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Academic Achievement, Child Safety, Family Programs
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Schleiter, Mary Kay; Rhoades, Katherine A.; Statham, Anne – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2004
The Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative (WPPEI), established by the University of Wisconsin Women's Studies Consortium Outreach Office in 1994, developed a collaborative outreach scholarship model that paired women from the poverty community with women's studies faculty from universities in eight Wisconsin communities to study the…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Outreach Programs, Poverty, Womens Studies