Prevention begins with connection. In place of problems, community leaders start solving issues by stopping them. Kids and youth need to feel connected to each other, their community, and their passions to stay out of trouble and remain motivated. And…
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Prevention Begins with Connection: Looking Back at the Get Connected 2019 Nebraska Afterschool Conference
Tagged with: after school programs, afterschool, afterschool program
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Posted in Middle Childhood, News and Events, Teen/Early Adulthood
Beyond School Bells receives Ron Raikes Innovation for Opportunity Award
Jeff Cole of Nebraska Children and the Beyond School Bells collaboration were recently selected as the first recipient of the Ron Raikes Innovation for Opportunity Award. The award was given at a statewide ARKSARBEN recognition event at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney on…
ELO Success in Omaha
Collective For Youth, an organization based in Omaha, is doing an outstanding job working with the Omaha Public School district to bring high-quality Expanded Learning Opportunities (afterschool and summer programming) to 29 schools. Students receive healthy meals, strategic individualized tutoring,…
Tagged with: afterschool, afterschool program, beyond school bells, CLC, collective for youth, elo, omaha, STEM
Posted in Middle Childhood
Posted in Middle Childhood
ELO success in Columbus
The Communities Together Can program in Columbus was developed to serve the high number of working families in the central Nebraska community. At first, the primary need it served was child care – a safe, structured and supervised place for…
Tagged with: afterschool, afterschool program, beyond school bells, CLC, columbus, elo
Posted in Middle Childhood
Posted in Middle Childhood
Victory breakdown: How Nebraska took a top 10 spot in afterschool
In The Afterschool Alliance’s 2014 America After 3PM report, Nebraska came in #8, handily outperforming 42 other states in the Expanded Learning Opportunities we offer our students once the bell rings. Here’s a visual breakdown of why Nebraska performs so…
Tagged with: afterschool, afterschool program, beyond school bells, CLC, elo
Posted in Middle Childhood
Posted in Middle Childhood
ELOs improve quality of life for working families
In Nebraska, 76.7% of families have all available parents working, according to the American Community Survey. With every adult on call to make ends meet, out-of-school care is a major challenge in Nebraska. In fact, it’s the reason many community-based…
Tagged with: afterschool, afterschool program, beyond school bells, CLC, elo
Posted in Middle Childhood
Posted in Middle Childhood
Why ELOs matter: Community crime rates
We talked in a recent post about how violent juvenile crime spikes at 3 pm. Other high-risk behaviors among tweens and teens flourish in the afterschool hours and summer months as well. We’ve also already talked about how Expanded Learning Opportunities…
