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For families everywhere, afterschool is not optional. Out-of-school time learning is not a luxury. Whether providing safe space while a parent works, enabling academic success through activities linked to school-day learning, or developing critical 21 st century skills through the arts, sports, and more, afterschool programs are an essential part of the education equation:

SCHOOL + AFTERSCHOOL = EDUCATION

PASE is here to ensure that the afterschool part of that equation is of high quality and is available to all youth. This edition of the PASE Bulletin is full of information designed to be useful for practitioners; we hope that it will serve as a valuable resource for afterschool program staff of all levels.

Please send any PASE Bulletin comments, questions, or submissions to bulletin@pasesetter.org.

Gain Management Skills in PASE’s Emerging Leaders Program!

Are you looking to grow professionally?

Are you interested in taking on a leadership role in your organization?

Do you feel you need additional skills and knowledge to be a more effective manager or supervisor?

The Emerging Leaders in Child and Youth Services course will help you accomplish all these goals and more. Offered by PASE in collaboration with Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs, this comprehensive, semester-long course in nonprofit management offers lectures and discussions that combine the expertise of both seasoned practitioners and Baruch professors.

In the course, you will develop the skills you need to become an effective manager, to be a leader in your organization, and to help usher your agency through challenging times while improving services. PASE is now accepting applications for our Fall 2008 class. Scholarships are available!

Learn more and apply

Planning Fun and Enriching Summer Programs!
An interview with Ellen O'Connell and Shelly Wilson

In this edition of the Bulletin, PASE is introducing a new regular feature. From time to time, interviews with PASE staff and other experts in the field will focus on a topic important to out-of-school time and provide information and guidance that will be useful to you as a practitioner.

In this issue, PASE’s Associate Director of Regional and National Programs, Ellen O’Connell, and Program Director, Shelly Wilson, sit down to discuss effective practices for summer programs. Together, Ms. O’Connell and Ms. Wilson have over 25 years of youth development experience and oversee PASE’s Summer Learning initiative which has helped youth-serving organizations implement effective summer programs for eight years running.

In this interview, they discuss the difference between summer and school-year programs, staffing summer programs, balancing fun and enrichment in the summer, things to look out for when planning, and good resources for the summer.

Read the interview

Inaugural Janet T. Kelley Lecture examines the "Summer Learning Gap"

The Partnership for After School Education hosted its inaugural Janet T. Kelley Lecture at Baruch College on June 5, 2008. This event kicked off the annual lecture series, which honors PASE’s founding executive director and will highlight important topics for afterschool programs in New York City and nationwide. Titled “Making the Promise of an Enriching Summer a Reality for all Young People” and given by guest speaker Ron Fairchild, the inaugural lecture focused on the importance of extending this promise to every child across the economic spectrum.