After-School Programs to Promote Child and Adolescent Development: Summary of a Workshop

by Jennifer Appleton Gootman, Institute of Medicine, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, et al.

This report summarizes the presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled Opportunities to Promote Child and Adolescent Development During the After-School Hours, convened on October 21, 1999. The workshop was organized by the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and its Forum on Adolescence of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine, with funding from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

This workshop brought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309071798
• ISBN13: 9780309071796
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 72 Pages