NCASE Resource Library
Featured Resources
This publication features some of the best resources, including webinars, briefs, and toolkits, available in the online NCASE Resource Library, developed for both practitioners and system builders. |
These selected resources, curated by NCASE, offer ideas and information for OST system leaders to support recovery from COVID-19. |
The NCASE Out-of-School Time Professional Development System-Building Toolkit was designed to assist states as they build professional development systems inclusive of school-age providers. |
Search for Resources ?
Search Results
Filter By
Reset Selections
Expand All Filters
Topics
- (-) Remove Professional Development filter Professional Development
- (-) Remove Program Design and Management filter Program Design and Management
- (-) Remove Summer Learning filter Summer Learning
- Culturally Responsive Practice & Inclusion (27) Apply Culturally Responsive Practice & Inclusion filter
- Family and Community Engagement (19) Apply Family and Community Engagement filter
- Health and Safety and Licensing (9) Apply Health and Safety and Licensing filter
- Quality Improvement (14) Apply Quality Improvement filter
- School & Community Partnerships (13) Apply School & Community Partnerships filter
- Subsidy, Eligibility, and Equal Access (9) Apply Subsidy, Eligibility, and Equal Access filter
- Supportive Learning Environment (25) Apply Supportive Learning Environment filter
- Systems Building (22) Apply Systems Building filter
Resource type
- (-) Remove Issue brief filter Issue brief
- (-) Remove Website filter Website
- Infographic (2) Apply Infographic filter
- Other (9) Apply Other filter
- Report (12) Apply Report filter
- Tool kit (21) Apply Tool kit filter
- Video/video series (3) Apply Video/video series filter
- Webinar (4) Apply Webinar filter
Publisher
- (-) Remove Office of Head Start filter Office of Head Start
- (-) Remove Other filter Other
- Administration for Children & Families (ACF) (4) Apply Administration for Children & Families (ACF) filter
- Afterschool Alliance (8) Apply Afterschool Alliance filter
- Afterschool Matters Journal (1) Apply Afterschool Matters Journal filter
- American Institutes for Research (AIR) (2) Apply American Institutes for Research (AIR) filter
- BUILD, QRIS National Learning Network (2) Apply BUILD, QRIS National Learning Network filter
- Child Trends (4) Apply Child Trends filter
- Collaborative Communications (1) Apply Collaborative Communications filter
- Education Development Center (EDC) (1) Apply Education Development Center (EDC) filter
- National Afterschool Association (NAA) (4) Apply National Afterschool Association (NAA) filter
- National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) (1) Apply National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) filter
- National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) (7) Apply National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) filter
- National Women's Law Center (1) Apply National Women's Law Center filter
- Office of Child Care (OCC) (10) Apply Office of Child Care (OCC) filter
- The Wallace Foundation (4) Apply The Wallace Foundation filter
- US Department of Education (1) Apply US Department of Education filter
- US Department of Health and Human Services, US Department of Education (2) Apply US Department of Health and Human Services, US Department of Education filter
Search Results
Filter By
This issue brief provides background information about the structures of child care costs and revenues and shows how the pandemic has affected the financial picture of providers. The paper also describes implementation issues for allocating financial resources to stabilize child care programs and the workforce. This resource supports the COVID-19 response.
This issue brief focuses on three ways to support the early care and education (ECE) workforce: (1) Increasing access to education and career growth; (2) reinforcing workers overall economic well-being; and (3) improving working conditions. MDRC, which published this article, is launching a new national project to examine a variety of approaches.
This policy brief summarizes findings from 22 focus groups with family child care (FCC) providers in CA, FL, MA, and WI during spring 2020. It reviews challenges that FCC providers faced as they provided care during the pandemic and the strengths they have that make them uniquely suited to respond to child care needs.
This issue brief presents research-based strategies for promoting youth leadership and responsibility, as well as choice and autonomy. The strategies for increasing voice and choice and leadership opportunities are divided into elementary school, middle school, and high school.
This issue brief explores how COVID-related school closures are likely to effect children’s academic progress, access to resources, and overall health and wellbeing and how systemic inequities exacerbate the impact for some groups.
American Camp Association and YMCA of USA online and downloadable Camp Operations Guide Summer 2020 is now available.
This website provides basic information about substance misuse among families with children.
These guidelines are for child care and after school programs providing care for children of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 crisis. They include guidance on preparing facilities, handling access to the program, cleaning and disinfecting, and food safety. This brief was published on April 4, 2020 and includes a helpful sample daily checklist for the program.
This is a user-friendly guide for providing leadership in these uncertain times, including sections on how to lead well, where to find savings, and how to talk to your donors, and how to find growth opportunities. It also includes a good discussion with Brett Hagler from New Story on how to build trust, display competence, and do budgeting and fundraising.
This article provides recommendations for child care for essential workers including: (1) use of Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards for guidance on the prevention and management of illness; (2) expansion of paid family leave to extended family members of essential workers so they can stay at home with their children; and (3) compensation of all early child