The Commission has established three work groups to help facilitate its work and
has adopted these overarching principles to help guide its efforts:
- To study each issue in-depth drawing upon the expertise, resources and information
from Commission members, invited guests and public hearings
- To identify and promote coordination and leveraging of existing resources to support
the state's afterschool system
- To foster public/private partnerships to strengthen a system that promotes a continuum
of care to support healthy child and youth development in and out of school
The three work groups are:
1) Information and Access
- To evaluate the different age populations served by before school, after school
and out-of-school time programs in terms of access.
- To review existing data on effectiveness of out-of-school time programming in the
Commonwealth.
- To make recommendations for and review the final report.
2) Quality, Workforce and Professional Development
- To evaluate the different age populations served by before school, after school
and out -of-school time programs in terms of quality.
- To help support the creation of a workforce system to bolster the education, training
and compensation of the out-of-school time workforce.
- To make recommendations for and review the final report.
3) Sustainability
- To analyze how afterschool programs are currently financed.
- To promote efficiencies through increased integration and coordination of publicly
funded afterschool programs.
- To spur the development of state public/private partnerships to support the afterschool
system.
- To make recommendations for and review the final report.