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February 2008

Halfway through the second month of 2008, with the carnival season come and gone, we are glad to have a moment to touch base, reflect, and recharge for our continuing work. This E-Newsletter provides you with details from the afterschool and Youth Development fields locally and nationally. Take strength from our united efforts and let's keep rebuilding New Orleans one afternoon at a time.

Spotlight: EVENTS

Crime Prevention and Youth Development
Federal Funding Workshop
2/21/2008, 9am-4pm, Port of New Orleans, www.portno.com
A day for general learning around grant writing and an opportunity to find out about specific grant opportunities from various federal agencies. This workshop has been put together working in partnership with US Attorney Jim Letten's office. We encourage all groups working with Youth to attend. Contact Dara for additional details.

Advancing Youth Development
This exciting professional development opportunity for New Orleans Youth workers presented in coordination with the Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation continues through 2008. Shelley can provide applications to any of the training sessions.
Supervisor 3/3, 3/5, 3/7 (Applications DUE 2/15)
Youth Worker 5/19-23 and 10/27-31

Afterschool Partnership meetings
Our monthly meetings provide the perfect forum for casual networking and exploring areas of interest to afterschool professionals. Plan to join us at 4319 Carondelet Street, for our 10:30am meeting on the following dates:

2/20 Street Smarts and Tobacco Free Living presentations
3/19 Funding Guide
4/16
5/21 Tentative - Day at the Capitol
8/20
9/17
10/15
11/19
12/17

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Focus on Research

Thank you to everyone who attended our first Articles Club this Tuesday! We are looking forward to our future discussions. Please plan to join us on the second Tuesday of each month at the Afterschool Partnership office, 4240 Canal Street, First Floor, 12 noon. Drinks will be provided, bring your lunch, and come prepared to discuss the article. Upcoming articles:

3/11
Harvard Family Research Project, February 2006, Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School, available by clicking here

4/8
America's After-School Choice: The Prime Time for Juvenile Crime, Or Youth Enrichment and Achievement (Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, 2000), available at:
http://www.fightcrime.org/reports/as2000.pdf

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Summer Support

Once again we are happy to partner with the Louisiana Serve Commission, the Office of Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu, and the Corporation for National and Community Service to provide AmeriCorps volunteers to local summer programs. Congratulation to our local programs who will be hosting VISTA volunteers this summer!

VISTA hosts will be:
American Friends Service Committee
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeast Louisiana
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans
Children's Defense Fund
Crossroads Project for Art, Learning & Community
Desire Street Ministries
Excel Star
Jefferson Youth Foundation
KIDsmART
Kingsley House
Louisiana Children's Museum
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans
New Orleans Outreach
New Orleans Public Library
New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD)
NOLA 180--Langston Hughes Academy Charter School
Open World Family Services
Orleans Parish Juvenile Court
Stage to Stage
Trinity Christian Community
Tulane University Upward Bound
Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Training
YMCA of Greater New Orleans
Young Audiences
Youth Empowerment Project
Youth Study Center

Do you work with Youth 18 and older who are looking for ways to be involved this summer? Visit: www.volunteerlouisiana.gov for VISTA application information.

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Summer Planning

Unified Summer Grants
After a very successful summer grant process in 2007, Afterschool Partnership is once again joining forces with United Way of GNO and the Emeril Lagasse Foundation to make grants available to programs serving children and Youth during the summer months. Full application details will be available on our website late next week.

2/28
Informational workshop about the grant process at United Way, 2515 Canal Street, 1pm. If you have questions about applying or would like to support this funding effort, please contact Dara.

Summer Camps to Times Picayune
3/7
DEADLINE for submissions to be included in the Times Picayune's listing of summer camps this year. To be included, submit program details including a brief summary, an address, the date and time along with a phone number to: kidcalendar@timespicayune.com, attention Summer Camps. Please do not send attachments or full press releases.

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On tour!

Gina and Shelley are both booked to represent the Afterschool Partnership at the National AfterSchool Association's annual conference this year. This conference has been extremely valuable for making lasting connections with the larger afterschool field and we are very excited to be welcomed as presenters this year. In 2009, the Association will bring the conference to New Orleans increasing attention to the important work of all New Orleans providers!

Our goal at this year's conference is to provide an accurate and engaging look at the afterschool landscape in New Orleans. If you have pictures you can provide for our power point, please forward to Shelley.

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Announcements

Funding Opportunities

• Louisiana's Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living cycle of Community Program Grants will run from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. Community Program Grants are awarded to non-profit groups to engage communities in a state-wide campaign to raise awareness and knowledge of the effects of secondhand smoke and to reduce the toll of tobacco at the community level. These grants are geared toward those who involve youth.
  
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  Grant information/technical assistance session 9:00am - 10:30am; Ashé Cultural Arts Center (1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, New Orleans). For additional information contact John Butts 504.301.9833

• Youth Today has a listing of grant opportunities for providers available on their website (www.youthtoday.org) and through a monthly eNewsletter. Visit today to find out more and subscribe.

• The Foundation Center's most current RFP Bulletin is available now at: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/
  

New Resources
The Afterschool Investments Project has new products available at the Afterschool Investments website: http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool/.  The Afterschool Investments project, a Child Care Bureau-supported initiative, provides technical assistance to Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) grantees and other state and local leaders to support afterschool efforts.

Afterwords
The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory provides a national eNewsletter focused on afterschool. Visit http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/afterwords/index.html to read online or subscribe to have it delivered directly.

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