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These 26 social-emotional check-in activities are designed for K-12 students and can be especially helpful in keeping the focus on relationships and social-emotional learning during COVID, when youth need to feel supported and build skills to cope, heal, and thrive. These activities are designed for in-person programs. Once you enter your email address you can download the curriculum. A companion piece for distance learning can be found at: Free Social-Emotional Check-ins for Distance Learning. This resource supports the COVID-19 response.
On September 15, 2021, the National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment hosted “Supporting Out-of-School Time Through the American Rescue Plan Act” webinar.
During this webinar participants: learned how ARP Act funds from the Department of Education and the Office of Child Care can support OST providers; gained an understanding from the Afterschool Alliance on how these funds are impacting the OST field and the role that OST intermediaries, such as State Afterschool Networks, play in supporting providers; explored resources designed to support CCDF Lead Agencies, Out-of-School Time program providers, and technical assistance providers with the stimulus funds.
States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico will award stabilization subgrants to eligible child care providers. This interactive map will lead to links for state and territory specific subgrant information and applications to help stabilize child care operations so that they may continue to provide care. This resource may help in planning for use of federal stimulus funds.
This guide is intended for child care and school-age child care business owners to help them complete the child care stabilization grant application. It provides information on each category of allowable expenses. There is also a similar guide for Family Child Care providers: Family Child Care Budget Guide These resources may help in planning for use of federal stimulus funds.
This newly updated and expanded report provides a framework for understanding social and emotional learning (SEL). It can be used as a reference to compare the content and evidence of effectiveness of 33 SEL programs for elementary-age and preschool-age children. In addition to program profiles, it includes chapters on out-of-school time, achieving equitable SEL, and trauma-sensitive approaches to SEL. A companion guide offers tips on how to efficiently use the report. A companion webinar can be found here. The companion report for middle and high schoolers can be found at https://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/Documents/navigating-social-and-emotional-learning-from-the-inside-out-middle-high-school.pdf
This resource supports resilience.
The National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance, partnering with First Children's Finance, provided this webinar to prepare Training and Technical Assistance providers to support providers to apply for American Rescue Plan stabilization funds. The webinar includes a detailed explanation of who is eligible to apply and allowable uses, with reminders that each state will implement the dissemination of these funds differently. This resource may help in planning for use of federal stimulus funds.There are additional resources for providers, including a Help is on the Way webinar for providers on the OCC ECTTAS Stabilization Grants page for providers.
This report explores ways to cover the true cost of high quality child care in order to meet the needs of children, families, and the broader economy. By creating a new and equitable financial model for child care, it will ensure that care is affordable for families, that the workforce is compensated at a living wage, and that programs have resources to meet high quality standards. It includes the link to a refreshed version of a 2018 interactive cost estimation tool for home-based child care, and for children ages birth to five. While there is not a tool for school-age, the information and concepts are relevant for school-age care. This resource may help in planning for use of federal stimulus funds.
The Help Kids Recover website offers important information about federal stimulus funding available through the American Rescue Plan including the funding apportionment per state, examples of how states are using recovery funding, examples of partnerships in action at different levels (e.g., state, school district, school), contacts for afterschool state networks, and evidence-based strategies. This website is part of a campaign by Afterschool Alliance and many partners, including Boys and Girls Clubs of America, National Afterschool Association, National Summer Learning Association, and the YMCA. This resource supports the COVID-19 response.
This webinar provides an overview of opportunities provided by the federal education funding from the American Rescue Plan, to help children re-engage, re-connect, and recover. The overview describes how much funding is available, how much has been distributed to state departments of education, and what evidence-based interventions are allowed. This resource may help in planning for use of federal stimulus funds.
This updated research brief provides a summary of key evaluations on the impact of afterschool programs during the pandemic. This summary can be a helpful resource for programs building the case for accessing stimulus funding as it refers to impact of afterschool on academic growth and engagement in learning; benefits of summer learning, fostering key foundational skills and boosting students’ well-being; and setting youth up to thrive post high school. See also: https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/ncase-resource-library/evaluations-backgrounder-summary-formal-evaluations-afterschool-programs-0 This resource supports the COVID-19 response.