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- Park and Recreation Department
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- Office of Cultural Affairs
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- Provide a safe environment for youth during after school hours
- Engage youth in a variety of quality leisure activities lead by
well-trained staff
- Provide programs in proximity to children leaving school
- Offer educational programs that encourage improved academic performance
- Create an environment that encourages personal development
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- 1993-’94 9 schools & all recreation centers
- 1994-’95 13 schools & all recreation centers
- 1995-’96 19 schools & all recreation centers
- 1996-’97 24 schools & all recreation centers
- 1997-’01 32 schools & all recreation centers
- 2002-’04 39 schools & 46 recreation centers
- 2005-’06 44 schools & 46 recreation centers
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- Targets latchkey youth in 1st - 8th grades, held
at schools and recreation centers
- Engages youth in activities including tutoring, homework assistance and
recreational activities designed to enrich the children’s cultural,
social and life skills
- Operates Monday-Friday 3:00-6:00 p.m. during the school year
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- Yoga
- Sculpting and Drawing
- Junior Jazzercise
- Theater/Drama/Dance
- Wearable Art
- Animal “Edutainment”
- Play Station Reward Program
- Conflict Resolution & Peer Pressure
- Chess
- African Drumming
- Sports
- Pepsi Pitch, Hit & Run
- Pepsi Punt, Pass & Kick
- Leagues and Tournaments
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- Board Games to support educational objectives
- Arts and Crafts
- Theatrical Productions/Drama
- Physical Games/Sports/Fitness
- Life Skills Activities
- Musical and Singing Activities
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- The City partners with school districts and cultural institutions to
provide after school programs
- The City provides
- Staffing
- Staff Training
- Contracts with outside agencies to provide a variety of experiences
and enrichment activities
- Program Supplies
- Program management and oversight
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- The school districts provide
- Space for the program
- Certified Teachers to provide tutoring for a minimum of 6 hours weekly
- USDA snacks
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- Calumet Com. Ctr.
- Cowart Elem.
- Lida Hooe Elem.
- Moreno Elem.
- Peeler Elem.
- Chavez Elem.
- Fannin Elem.
- Arlington Park Elem.
- Winnetka Elem.
- Budd Elem.
- McMillan Elem.
- Forest Lane Elem. (RISD)
- North Lake Elem. (RISD)
- Skyview Elem. (RISD)
- Audelia Elem. (RISD)
- Milam Elem.
- McShan Elem.
- Patton Elem.
- Russell Elem.
- Pease Elem.
- Runyon Elem.
- Thornton Elem.
- Field Elem.
- Bayles Elem.
- Conner Elem.
- Harlee Elem.
- Lagow Elem.
- Highland Meadows Elem.
- Hotchkiss Elem.
- Reinhardt Elem.
- Bukhair Elem. (RISD)
- Pershing Elem.
- Marcus Elem.
- Rogers Elem.
- Jordan Elem.
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- Storey
- Greiner
- Comstock
- Anderson
- Holmes
- Zumwalt
- Forest Meadow
- Lake Highlands
- Westwood
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- Cultural Institutions provide
- Enrichment classes and programs
- Performances
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- Arts Partners (Dallas OCA, DISD and Big Thought) is a long-standing
partnership that provides elementary students in DISD with access to
arts and cultural resources
- Model program nationally and one of the key factors for the Wallace
Foundation considering Dallas for this new initiative
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- Current conditions
- Distinct areas of unconnected system with both in-school and
out-of-school time arts learning
- Operating at different levels of coherence and maturity
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- Wallace grant will support planning process that will help build a
strategy to:
- Build and align resources for arts learning
- Coordinate & strengthen system in mutually supportive ways
- Long term outcome is to surround children with high-quality arts
learning in schools, neighborhoods & community
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- Planning process ongoing through June 2006
- Opportunity for City departments with youth programs to be involved in
planning process
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