Afterschool Alliance, www.afterschoolalliance.org
The Afterschool Alliance is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to public awareness and advocacy for after-school. The website offers research, publications and news about after-school, as well as resources and tools for advocacy.

Afterschool.gov, www.afterschool.gov
Afterschool.gov is a clearinghouse of information about after-school provided by the General Services Administration and the Interagency Federal Child Care Council. The website offers access to information including news, research and publications, as well as after-school activities and curricula.

California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC), www.calsac.org
Through a statewide network of members and chapters, CalSAC provides after-school programs and professionals with the training and technical assistance. The website features news, research, career information and a schedule of events and free training opportunities.

California Tomorrow, www.californiatomorrow.org
California Tomorrow supports individual, institutional and community change work around matters of diversity and equity in a number of settings including the after-school/youth development arena. California Tomorrow has created several resources for practitioners in after-school settings, which can be ordered here: http://californiatomorrow.org/publications/

Collaborative After School Project at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CASP-CPP), www.csupomona.edu/~casp/sacaslc/index.html
CASP-CPP is committed to the establishment of comprehensive, high-quality school-age programs that support and assist children and youth in all aspects of their development. CASP-CPP has developed a wide range of resources for the California Department of Education, Child Development Division (CDE-CDD) including a series of curriculum and management guide publications, the delivery of related trainings, and supporting online resources.

Community Network for Youth Development (CNYD), www.cnyd.org
CNYD is a youth development intermediary organization that offers support, training and capacity-building resources to youth-serving organizations and programs both locally and outside the San Francisco Bay Area. The website offers publications, presentations, training tools and information about events training, forums and workshops.

Department of Children, Youth, and their Families (DCYF), www.dcyf.org
One of the few city departments in the country dedicated exclusively to young people, DCYF enhances the lives and futures of San Francisco’s children and youth through innovative partnerships with parents and youth, community organizations, city departments, schools, funders and the private sector.

Experience Corps, www.experiencecorps.org
Experience Corps offers new adventures in service for Americans older than 55. More than 1,500 Corps members in 13 cities serve as tutors and mentors to children in urban public schools and after-school programs.

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California, www.fightcrime.org/ca
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California is a nonprofit, non-partisan, anti-crime organization led by California’s sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and crime victims dedicated to reducing crime by promoting public investments in programs proven to keep kids from being involved in crime. It is part of the national Fight Crime: Invest in Kids organization. The website features reports on after-school and school-age care, which can be accessed here: http://www.fightcrime.org/ca/caresources.php

Finance Project, www.financeproject.org
A nonprofit policy research, technical assistance and information organization, the Finance Project offers tools, training and technical support around finance, community supports, organization management and information management. Learn more about the Out-of-School-Time Project and related resources here: http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/OST/

National AfterSchool Association, www.naaweb.org
The National AfterSchool Association, formerly the National School-Age Care Alliance, is a professional association whose members include more than 7,000 practitioners, policymakers, and administrators representing all public, private, and community-based sectors of after-school and out-of-school time programs, as well as school-age and after-school programs on military bases.

National Institute on Out-of-School Time, www.niost.org
National Institute on Out-of-School Time, at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College, produces research, evaluation, consultation, policy development, public awareness, training and curriculum development. The website offers publications, news and resources, including a clearinghouse on the out-of-school-time workforce.

National Youth Development Information Center (NYDIC), www.nydic.org
The NYDIC website provides resources for youth workers in the areas of funding, programming, research, policy, and job and training opportunities. NYDIC also provides current news to the youth development field and has an online library that provides practice-related information at low cost or no cost.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), www.ncrel.org
NCREL, a subsidiary of Learning Point Associates, is dedicated to providing high-quality, research-based resources to educators and policymakers in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Resources for after-school programming can be found here: http://www.ncrel.org/after/

Promising Practices in Afterschool (PPAS), www.afterschool.org
The PPAS website, created by the Academy for Educational Development’s Center for Youth Development and Policy Research, provides a searchable database of promising practices in after-school from around the country.

Youth Service California (YSCal), www.yscal.org
YSCal is committed to fostering the growth and effectiveness of youth service and service learning programs in California and provides information and other resources to policymakers, community-based organizations, press and educators. Learn more about YSCal’s California After School Service Learning grants here: http://www.yscal.org/resources/cassl.html

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