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General Links
These links provide easy access to bills being considered and email access to state and federal elected officials:
These links provide easy access to website for local elected officials:
These sites provide advocacy resources focused on children and youth:
National Sites
- National School Boards Association – Advocacy Institute
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- The PEW Charitable Trusts
- National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds
- American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
- Center for American Progress
- Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation
- JumpStart - Children First
- Military Child Education Coalition
- Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education
- National Academy of Sciences
- National Women's Law Center
- National Workforce Registry Alliance
- National League of Cities
- National Association of Counties
- National Association of State Boards of Education
- National Governors Association
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
- Save the Children
- Save the Children Action Network
- Teach for America
- TESOL International Association
South Carolina Sites
- South Carolina School Boards Association
- Institute for Child Success
- Children’s Trust of South Carolina - Sign up for their Blog. It presents highlights and links to state initiatives.
- United Way Association of South Carolina
- South Carolina Joint Citizens & Legislative Committee on Children
Attachments
- South Carolina's Legislative Process
- 10 Practices: Making the Business Case Part 1
- 10 Practices: Making the Business Case Part 2
GCOST
National Advocacy Site
Local Advocacy Site
Attachments
- Advocacy Webinar Report for GCOST – 2015-16
- Strengthening Partnerships and Building Public Will for Out-of-School Time Programs
Materials from the NYSAN (New York State Advocacy Network) Quality Self Assessment
Element 1: Environment and Climate
- Nature Rocks: Summr Activity Guide
- All Hazards Preparedness Guide
- Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Technical Assistance Center
- Bully Police: A Watchdog Organization - Advocating for Bullied Children & Reporting on State Anti Bullying Laws
- Ripple Kids - Great list of projects
- Seasonal Influenza: Printable Handouts available
- Swim Healthy, Swim Safely
- Family Support
- Meet and Greet Strategies
- Environmental Projects: The Roof is Growing
Attachments
- Student Survey on Environment and Climate by Waterman
- Developing Spaces by and for Teens in Out-of-School-Time Programs
- Afterschool Medical Form
Element 2: Administration and Organization
- Family Engagement Ideas
- Keeping Attendance and Analysing Data about Afterschool Participation
- Great Resources for Parent Involvment
- South Carolina Laws, Regulations, and Policies for Childcare Providers
- South Carolina Childcare Licensing
- Starting Your Afterschool Program
- Start Up Guide for Afterschool Programs
- Personalized Salary Checking Website
- Salary Comparisons Website
- How to Create a Database in Excel
- Afterschool Activities - List
- Data Sharing Tip Sheets
- South Carolina School Food Service Program Reference Manual- Chapter 25- Afterschool Snack Program
- Seven Research-Based Ways that Families Promote Early Literacy
- Finding their Way: Family Engagement with Digital Math Helps Children Develop Spatial Skills
- Public Libraries: A Vital Space for Family Engagement
- What to Include in an Employee Handbook
- After-School Porgrams Parent Involvement Plan
Attachments
Element 3: Relationships
- Play and Learn with Arthur: 100 Creative Activities to do with Children 3 to 6
- Conflict Resolution Skills: Managing and Resolving Conflict in a Positive Way
- Building Culturally Competent Organizations
- Decision Making Wheel Activity
- Measuring the Quality of Mentor-Youth Relationships: A Tool for Mentoring Programs
- Preventing Bullying and Cyber Bullying: A Guide for Students, Educators, and Administrators
- Strategies for Increasing Peer Social Interactions: Prompting and Acknowledgement
- Team Building Activities Focusing on Communication
- The Positive Discipline Model
- Two-Way Communication: A Teacher's Practical Points
- Power Point on Cultural Competency: An Independent School Imperative
- Warning Signs for Bullying
Attachment
Element 4: Staff and Professional Development
- Effective Adult Learning: A Tool Kit for Teaching Adults
- Ages and Stages of 4-H Youth Development
- The New York State School Age Care Credential Competency Standards for Afterschool Professionals
- Boring School Staff Meetings: Some Ideas
- Growing Our Own: Former Participants in Staff in Afterschool Youth Development Programs
- Core Competencies for Youth Professional Workers
- Identifying Staffing Needs and Recruiting Qualified After-School Staff
- National Afterschool Code of Ethics
- Effective PD that Lasts: How to Plan for Optimal Professional Development in Your School District
- DPS Professional Development Tracking Form
- Planning Considerations for Afterschool Professional Development
- Afterschool Training Tool Kit
- After Hours: Professional Development for Afterschool Staff
- Quality Standards
- When to Give Your Employee a Promotion or Not
Element 5: Resources and Research
- Afterschool - Keys to Happy Transitions Each Day
- Curriculum Databases
- Build a (Better) Global Afterschool Program
- Making Afterschool Programs Better
- National Ceter for Community Schools: Curriculum Planning Toolkit
- Displaying Student Work
- Children's Work: Visibility Leads to Value
- Global Competence in Expanded Learning Time: A Guide for School Leaders
- Beyond the Chalkboard: Hundreds of Free Activities to Teach in Your Afterschool
- P21 Partnership for 21st Century Learning
- The Other and Othering: A Short Introduction
- Student Leadership Challenge
Attachments:
Element 6: Linkages Between Day & Afterschool
- Leveraging the Power of Afterschool and Summer Learning for Student Success
- The Afterschool and Community School Connection: Expanding Learning Opportunities and Partnerships
- More than Just Another "To Do" on the List: The Benefits of Strong School, Principal, and Afterschool/Community Relationships
- The Common Core Standards: What do They Mean for Out of School Time?
- Managing and Organizing the Homework Envrionment
- Enhancing Service through Effective School/Community Collaboration
- 4 Steps to College
- Leading a Learning Community: What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do
- Links to School Improvement
- Math Playground
- Mixing in Math
- Collaborating with Principals in Afterschool Programs
- Sample: School/Community Partner Agreement
- The Value of Out-of-School-Time Programs
Element 7: Youth Participation and Engagement
- Establishing Trust
- Exemplary Practices in Afterschool Program Development: Rubrics for Tracking Internal Processes
- Finding the Right Hook
- Five Tips to Help Children Develop Decision Making Skills
- Involving Children in Decision Making
- Improving Attendance and Retention in Out of School Time Programs
- What the Heck is Inquiry Based Learning?
- Seven Essentials for Project Based Learning
- Teamwork: Respecting Others
- The Leading Edge: Exploring Student Engagement Innovation (Power Point)
- What is Strengths Based Education?
- Youth-Adult Partnerships in the Evaluation Process
- At the Table: Making the Case for Youth in Decision Making
Attachment:
Element 8: Parent, Family, and Community Partnerships
- Building Community Partnerships: Tips for Out-of-School-Time Programs
- From Birth through Young Adulthood: A Blueprint for Collaboration between the Early Care and Education and Afterschool Systems in New York State
- Engage Youth, Families, and Community Members in Solution
- Family Reading Night: Facilitator's Guide
- Increasing Family and Parent Engagement in After-School
- Afterschool: Supporting Family Involvement in Schools
- PTA Resource Guide from New York State
- Teaching Strategies to Involve Parents
- Tips for Talking with Parents about Developmental Concerns
Element 9: Program Sustainability and Growth
- Financing and Sustaining Out of School Time Programs in Rural Communnities
- Fiscal Fitness for Non-Profits
- Road to Sustainability
- The Sustainability Formula
- Thinking Broadly: Financing Strategies for Youth Programs
- Tips on Writing Proposals
- Marketing Afterschool
- Making a Case for Afterschool: Talking Points and Outreach Strategies
- 3 Tips to Promoting Your Afterschool
- The Best Ways to Communicate Your Organization's Vision
- 4 Steps to Writing a Mission Statatement for your Childcare Program
- The Skill of Aligning Vision, Mission, and Goals
- How to Set Smart Goals to Grow Your After School Program
- Alignment Observation and Supervision Checklists
- 10 Tips for Aligning the Learning Day
- Using Research to Continuously Improve After School Programs: Helping Students to become 21st Century LIfelong Learners
- Creating and Running an Effective Advisory Board (Power Point)
- Stakeholder Communication: Tips from the States
- 5 Communication Tips for Education
Element 10: Measuring Outcomes and Evaluation
- Out of School time Evaluation Snapshot: Detangling Data: Methods for Gathering Data
- Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity
- Process Evaluations: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Practitioners
- Workbook A: Creating A Communications Plan
- Qualitative vs. Quantitative Research
- Child Care Staff Evaluation
- What is the Aim of Continuous Improvement?
- Data Collection Techniques
- Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Quide to Assessment Tools, Second Edition
- Making Afterschool Programs Better
- Taking a Deeper Dive into Afterschool: Positive Outomes and Promsing Practices
- Afterschool Evaluation 101: How to Evaluate an Expanded learning Program
- Telling Your Assessment Story: How to Communicate Results
- How to Develop a Logic Model (Power Point)
Attachments:
- Questionnaire Design: Asking questions with a purpose
- Out-of School Time Program Evaluation: Tools for Action
- The Afterschool Program Assessment System
Early Learning Council and Early Childcare Collaborative
National Advocacy and Stakeholder Sites
- Ready Nation
- National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
- Power to the Profession (NAEYC)
- Links to National Organizations that support Power to the Profession
- American Federation of State, County and Municiple Employees
- American Federation of Teachers
- Associate Degree Early Childhood Teacher Educators
- Child Care Aware America
- Council for Professional Recognition
- Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children
- Early Care and Education Consortium
- National Association for Family Child Care
- National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators
- National Association of Elementary School Principals
- National Education Association
- National Head Start Association
- Service Empolyees International Union
- ZERO TO THREE
- BUILD Initiative
- CLASP
- Early Childhood Personnel Center
- McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership
- National Association of Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education
- National Association of Regulatory Administration
- TEACH Early Childhood National Center
Local Advocacy Sites
- Early Childhood Common Agenda (represents consensus among the following groups-
Institute for Child Success (ICS), United Way of SC, Children’s Trust, SCAEYC, and SCECA - South Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children (SCAEYC)
- South Carolina Early Childhood Association (SCECA)
Attachments
- Sample Testimony to the SC Legislators (2017)
- Sample Testimony to a Legislative Committee (2016)
- Playbook for Becoming and Early Learning Community
- Why Business Should See Early Childhood Development as a Smart Investment - 2014
- Opportunities Exchange: Quality at Scale
- Shared Services Infographic
- Early Childhood Advocacy ToolKit
HCCCY and TPG
National Advocacy Sites
- Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- Bright Futures
Local Advocacy Sites
- South Carolina Department of Mental Health – Independent Advocacy Organizations
Research and Development
- Center on the Developing Child (Harvard University)
- National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families: Zero to Three: Early Experiences Matter
- Getting "Moneyball" Right in the Soical Sector from Standford Social Innovation Review
- Using Brain Science to Design New Pathways Out of Poverty
- Implementing the Child Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization: A Guide for States
- When Brain Science Meets Public Policy
- The Heckman Equation
- Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
- Child Trends
- Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes
- Data Quality Campaign
- National Institute for Early Education Research
- A Medical Home for Our Children
- Overrepresentation of African American Males in Exclusionary Discipline: The Role of School-Based Mental Health Professionals in Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
- Project to Improve Poor Children’s Intellect Led to Better Health, Data Show
- Early Behavior Therapy Found to Aid Children with A.D.H.D.
- How Do Primary Care Physicians Identify Young Children with Developmental Delays? A National Survey
- Prevalence and Impact of Disabling Chronic Conditions in Childhood
- The North Carolina ABCD Project: A New Approach for Providing Developmental Services in Primary Care Practice
- Enhancing Pediatric Mental Health Care: Strategies for Preparing a Primary Care Practice
- Pediatrics Group Recommend Reading Aloud to Children from Birth
- Conducting Community Health Needs Assessments in Rural Communities: Lessons Learned
Education Attachments
- Developing Early Literacy
- Early Beginnings
- How Early is Too Early to Begin Life Career Planning? The Importance of The Elementary School Years
- 10 Practices: Making the Business Case - Research and References for 10 Practices and Appendices
- What Good Preschool Looks Like
- School-based Interventions for Agressive and Disruptive Behavior: Update if a Meta-Analysis
- Dolly Parton Imagination Library
- Young Star: What Does Recent (2016) Research Tell Us?
Power Points
- Building Better Brains: The Core Story of Early Brain and Child Development (EBDC)
- ABCD-Setting the Stage for Success
- Transformation: What South Carolina Can Learn from Florida’s K-12 Reforms
- Oral Language Acceleration Project
- Governor Haley’s K-12 Education Reform Initiative (2016)
- United Way Public Policy
- Comprehensive Early Childhood Systems in States
- Triple P Overview
Reports and Legislative Actions
Attachments for Health Care
- The Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness: 2014 Annual Report
- Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) Plan
- South Carolina’s BabyNet Program Audit (Legislative Audit Council)
- Ensuring Quality Services for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities and their Families with the BabyNet Early Intervention System: An Analysis of Current and Needed Resources
Attachments for Education
- SC Child Early Reading Development & Education Program
- Report about CDEPP
- Disparate Access: Head Start and CCDBG Data by Race and Ethnicity
- SC Education and Economic Development Act
- Report: Poor Children Lag Behind Despite 4K
- South Carolina Part B Systemic Improvement Plan
- SC DSS SC Voucher Program – Policy Manual
- Abbeville Case Proposals
- Policy Report (Kids Count) The First Eight Years
- Evaluation of State-Funded Full-Day 4K (Part 1)
- Child Poverty in the United States Today
- Parenting Education, Engagement, and Outreach from the National Parenting Education Network (NPEN)
- Too Small to Fail - Building Children's Brains from the New York Times
- South Carolina Department of Education's (SDCE) Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Consolidated Plan (DRAFT)
Links to Grants
- Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation (Grants)
- Coastal Community Foundation (List of Grants)
- Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina (Grants)
- Fundsnet Services.com (South Carolina Grants)
- Rural Health Information Hub (HRIhub)- South Carolina Funding Opportunities
- Administration for Children and Families (Grants and Funding)
- Children’s Bureau (Grants)
- The Gobal Fund for Children (Apply for a Grant)
- Educated Kids (W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
- South Carolina GrantWatch
- South Carolina Department of Education (LEA Programs for Neglected and Delinquent Children and Youth
- CNE (Grants)
- Michigan State University Libraries (Grants for Nonprofits: Children and Youth
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers (Grants)-U.S. Department of Education
- American Indian College Fund
- First Five Years Fund
- Ounce of Prevention Fund
- Trust for Learning
Grant Attachments
- How to Write a Winning Grant Proposal
- Implementing the Child Care and Development Block Grant Reauthorization: A Guide for States
Marketing
- Community Tool Box: Preparing Public Service Announcements
- PSA Examples: (Good, Bad, and Ugly)
- Community Tool Box: Preparing Press Releases
- Daycare in Demand: Marketing for Child Care Centers
- Sample Press Release for National Child Abuse Prevention Month
- 3 Reasons Why Child Care Providers Should Use Social Media Marketing
- How to Succed in Newtorking while Really Trying: How Children's Health Advocates are Using Social Media to Share Ideas and Advance Policy Goals
- Video: Content Marketing 101
- Kim Fox's Successful Marketing Plan Snapshot of your Non-profit's Current Situation
- Edited Kim Fox Marketing Workshop PowerPoint
Community Data
Links
- Youth Community Connections Data Base 2019
- 2019 Kids County Data Book from Annie E. Casey
- 2018 Kids Count Data Book from Annie E. Casey
- Early Childcare Deserts
Community Planning Documents
- 2018-2020 Modified Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) SC Unified State Plan
- Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for the Waccamaw Region Draft- 2017-2027
- Georgetown County Planning Information
- City of Georgetown Comprehensive Plan 2011
Attachments
Sample Flyers and Invitations
- Autism and You
- Health and Wellness Fair
- GCOST: Diggin Digital
- GCOST: Full STEM Ahead
- GCOST: Lights on Afterschool
- Read to Run
Quality Standards
Attachments
- Career Development & Occupational Studies: Elementary Core Curriculum
- The South Carolina Comprehensive Developmental Guidance and Counseling Program Model: A Guide for S C School Counseling Program
Videos
Care Coordination
Webinars
Parent Engagement
For Families
Pre-K Education
- Out-of-School Time Programs for School Age Children and Youth (e.g., Afterschool)
- To find an Afterschool Program - SC Afterschool Alliance: Find a Program
- For sports teams - Georgetown County Parks and Recreation Department
- Health Care
Support for Basic Needs
Housing