2018 Afterschool Development Conference: A grassroots conversation about afterschool in Chicago.
The Afterschool Development Working Groups grew out of a series of conferences, convened by the All Stars Project beginning in 2010, that brought afterschool frontliners and leaders from a broad array of youth and community facing organizations together around two related themes and questions: How does afterschool help young people to develop? How do we develop the afterschool movement?
The Working Groups have emerged as a forum for grassroots thought leadership in which participants are engaging the current challenges afterschool faces and creating a vision for the future of the field. Specifically, the Working Groups are tackling what it can mean for afterschool to develop as a transformational force across America.
Afterschool Development Working Group members include organization leaders, frontline practitioners, educators, academics, advocates, policymakers and others allied with our purpose and intention. Since 2010, 308 members representing 250 organizations have participated. Join the movement!
Afterschool Development Working Groups (ADWG) are held in Newark, Chicago and Dallas, and they give those involved a forum in which they can share challenges, make connections and deepen their understanding of Afterschool Development as an “other than school” strategy for social transformation in America.
Please click here to join the New Jersey Afterschool Development Working Group.
Please click here to join the Dallas Afterschool Development Working Group.
Please click here to join the Chicago Afterschool Development Working Group.
Stimulating the Dialogue on Afterschool:
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