Nontraditional Approaches to Improving Extended Learning Time for D.C. Older Youth

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session presents a multifaceted approach to addressing extended learning time by providing older youth living in DC with multiple opportunities to thrive. This symposium addresses of five separate initiatives of the DC Trust, and it presents the three to five year results individually. These initiatives include providing DC Metropolitan School Police officers with PD courses that address youth development, Communities on the Rise (COR), Data Driven Decision making using DC Youth Insight, providing services to court-involved youth, and the Citywide Youth initiative, and the Center for Excellence in Youth Development (CEYD).

Sub Unit

• SIG-Out-of-School Time

Chair

• Toks S. Fashola, JHU/MERA

Papers

• Using the Advancing Youth Development Curriculum to Effect Change Among Youth Resource Workers - Lisa Rucker, DC Trust

• Aligning Out-of-School Time in D.C. Using Data-Driven Decision Making - Kimberly Barnette, Delta Decisions of DC

• Using Summer Employment to Expand Out-of-School Opportunities for Older Youth in D.C. - Nisha Sachdev, DC Trust

Discussant

• Daniel K. Aladjem, American Institutes for Research