Family & Community Students & Families Student Support, Career & Education Services
After-School and Out-of-School Time (ASOST) Quality Enhancement Grant Program

NEWS: FY12 grantees announced on 9/6/11

The After-School and Out-of-School Time (ASOST) Quality Enhancement Grant Program (Fund Code 530) is a program funded through state line item 7061-9611. Funding is designed to increase and enhance comprehensive and effective ASOST programming for students in grades K-12. Grants support children's and youth's academic, social, and emotional development outside of the regular school day, for public and non-public school age students during the school year and over the summer months. Priorities for programs include:

1. Supporting programs that demonstrate strong and innovative implementation of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) and Early Education and Care (EEC) recommended Guidelines for Quality Enhancements in ASOST programs   ; and
2. Addressing barriers to student participation.
3. Expanding quality summer programming to ensure a continuum of programs and services to help to stem summer learning loss.

Request for Proposals:

The competitive FY12 RFP was due July 29, 2011.

Grant Recipients:

FY12 (approved to run programs 9/6/2011-8/31/2012)

Recipients Archives:

  

FY11 (for programs that ran 9/1/2010-8/31/2011)

Resources:

After School and Out-of-School Time Technical Assistance Resources

The Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care oversees early education and care and after-school services for families.

The Massachusetts Special Commission on After School and Out of School Time was created by the Massachusetts Legislature to "study and recommend how to' define and 'better coordinate, expand, finance and improve accessible, affordable, and quality out-of-school time programming for school age children in all settings in Massachusetts." The Commission published a report, Our Common Wealth: Building a Future for Our Children and Youth, in 2007

Contact Information:

Kristen McKinnon, Coordinator
via asost@doe.mass.edu or kmckinnon@doe.mass.edu
or (781) 338-3010 or (781) 338-6306