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Weekly Media Roundup: May 15, 2024

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Weekly Media Roundup: May 15, 2024

This Affordable Housing Project Wasn’t Going to Happen – And Then an Unlikely Partnership Formed, Fast Company

By teaming up with a new affordable housing development, the Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle in New York doubled the size of its facility to 22,000 feet. The new building, called The Renaissance, includes a teaching kitchen, a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) laboratory, a podcast studio, spaces for job training and more. The building also includes 179 units of subsidize family housing and is part of an effort to bring investment and opportunity to the Lincoln Park neighborhood, where most families are low-income. “It’s not just affordable housing units or just a community center,” Becky Mazzanobile, CEO of Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle, told Fast Company. “It really was thinking holistically about how to revitalize that area.”

With Hundreds of Kids On Waitlist, Wright-Patt Breaks Ground On Expanded Base Child Care Center, WYSO (Ohio)

At Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, military families face long wait lists for afterschool programs at the base’s four family centers. “On average, 250 to 350 children on our active waiting list,” Nancy Adams, deputy director of the 88th Force Support Squadron, told WYSO. This week, the military base held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new child care development center that will provide afterschool programs to an additional 300 students.

Expiring Grants Could Mean Loss of After-School Programs For Thousands of Illinois Kids, CBS News (Illinois)

As many as 300 21st Century Community Learning Center programs are at risk of closing in Illinois due to a miscalculation of federal government funding. “These programs are essential and we need to ensure that we’re doing everything we can to fully fund them, and make sure that our youth have these opportunities,” Illinois State Senator Ram Villavalam told CBS News. The Illinois State Board of Education has allocated $10 million to afterschool programs in 2025, but advocates note this will only support one quarter of the programs.

Students and Families Join Michigan After-School Partnership at the Capitol, WILX 10 (Michigan)

Last month, legislators in the Michigan State House proposed a $75 million investment in afterschool programs to expand access to more students. In response, students, families and afterschool program leaders gathered outside the State Capitol with the Michigan Afterschool Partnership to highlight the need to invest in afterschool. “We’ve got decades of research that shows that youth who partake in afterschool programs will have better math scores, reading scores, science scores. They might have increases in attendance, help with behavioral issues, leadership skills, all across the board,” Erin Skene-Pratt director of the Michigan Afterschool Partnership, told WILX 10.

Weekly Media Roundup: January 29, 2025

Afterschool Program Introduces West Columbia Students to Technology, The Facts (Texas) Students at West Columbia Elementary in Texas are taking part in hands-on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activities in the new Robocatters afterschool program, which already has a long...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      01/29/25

Weekly Media Roundup: January 22, 2025

Another Year, Another Long Waitlist for BUSD After-School Program, Berkeleyside (California) Due to ongoing staffing shortages, more than 200 students are currently waitlisted for afterschool programs at Berkeley Unified School District. Parents in the district’s PTA Collaborative on...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      01/22/25

Weekly Media Roundup: January 15, 2025

New 4-H Program Will Bring STEAM to Area Students, KNEB (Nebraska) Students in rural Expanding Learning Opportunity programs in Nebraska are exploring aerospace, electronics, engineering, robotics and more thanks to a partnership with 4-H. The Think Make Create Lab is a six-by-12 mobile trailer...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      01/15/25

Weekly Media Roundup: January 8, 2025

Parks and Recreation Secures Grant to Bring Physical Activity Education to Youth in Afterschool Program, WBIW (Indiana) More than 50 students in the Banneker Afterschool program in Bloomington, Indiana are taking part in fun physical activities this year led by Indiana University School of...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      01/08/25

Weekly Media Roundup: December 18, 2024

Mason City YMCA Teaching Social and Emotional Skills to Kids, News-Press Now (Iowa) Students in the Mason City YMCA afterschool program in Iowa practice communication, emotional regulation, empathy and more in twice-weekly social and emotional learning sessions, learning, for instance, to take...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      12/18/24

Weekly Media Roundup: December 11, 2024

Usher Helps Cut Ribbon On New Content Studio at Metro Boys and Girls, WSB-TV (Georgia) This week, superstar Usher visited the Whitehead Boys & Girls Club in Atlanta, Georgia, to unveil a new content studio he donated featuring soundboards, mics, computers and other audio equipment. The...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      12/11/24

Weekly Media Roundup: December 4, 2024

New Program Helps Connect Older Kids to Valuable Activities, Pigeon 605 (South Dakota) Through Sioux Falls Thrive’s new Youth Connect website, parents can explore afterschool programs available in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  “Our goal is to make it super-easy for families, kids...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      12/04/24

Weekly Media Roundup: November 27, 2024

Detroit After-School Program Mentoring Children Through Art, Music Looking to Expand, WDIV (Michigan) At the New City Kids afterschool program in Detroit, teen mentors inspire younger students to pursue music, dance, and the arts while also providing homework assistance. The teen mentors...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      11/27/24

Weekly Media Roundup: November 20, 2024

After-School Program Opens in Lewis County for the First Time in Years, WDTV 5 (West Virginia) Thanks to a partnership between the City of Weston and AmeriCorps, students at Robert L. Bland Middle School in West Virginia will take part in a comprehensive afterschool program this year....

BY: Magen Eissenstat      11/20/24

Weekly Media Roundup: November 13, 2024

Flower City Arts Center Empowers Students to Share Stories Through Photography, Spectrum News 1 (New York) Through photography, sculpture, and painting, the afterschool program at the Flower City Arts Center in Rochester, New York is empowering middle and high schoolers to express themselves...

BY: Magen Eissenstat      11/13/24