Programs for Children and Youth in a Community Context
Publisher/Sponsor:
Child Trends
Author:
Anderson-Moore, Kristin
Abstract
Participants in a recent Child Trends Roundtable explored how evidence-based programs might be integrated into community initiatives to strengthen outcomes for children. Participants discussed both practice and policy implications for this approach. Participants emphasized the need for programs to identify outcomes and to be data driven. While agreeing that integrating evidence-based programs into community initiatives is harder than it sounds, participants said that synergies were likely to result and that ways to integrate and align out-ofschool time programs with community initiatives need greater attention. Insights from this Roundtable provide valuable guidance to policymakers and foundations considering investments in similar initiatives and to communities seeking to build or improve a system of services for disadvantaged children and youth.
Publication Date:
2009
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