Accomplishments:
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GAIC partnered with The Finance Project to provide sustainability training to Georgia’s 21st CCLC programs. A 3-hour in person training and two webinars have been delivered with an additional two webinars to be completed in the first quarters of 2013.
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GAIC developed a new partnership with the Georgia Department of Education and jointly received funding from the Longview Foundation to build a long term coalition of state and local leaders in education, afterschool and business around the growing importance of Georgia’s students being equipped to succeed in a global economy. GAIC received additional funding from the Asia Society to expand the network’s global learning efforts to include a global learning advocacy toolkit to be developed in early 2013.
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GAIC launched the Georgia Afterschool Partner Network in October 2012. GAIC’s goal is to have over 1,000 afterschool providers and youth development partners signed on to the network by 2015.
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GAIC continued working with the Georgia Afterschool Tennis Education (GATE) programs to get Georgia’s youth up and moving, working with a mentor and character development. In 2012, GATE served 20 program sites, serving over 700 students.
Current Projects and Initiatives:
- The Georgia Afterschool Quality Standards are a framework to help program providers identify areas needing improvement and create an action plan for improvement. The standards help educate Georgians about what quality afterschool programming looks like.
- The Boys and Girls of Metro Atlanta continues to work with the GAIC to run a customized, mandated Afterschool Institute for their entire full-time staff.
- GAIC is in its third year of recruiting afterschool sites, facilitating national junior tennis league chapters and serving as an intermediary so that more of Georgia’s afterschool programs include a programming component that helps kids ages 10 and under increase their physical activity through the Academically Creative Education tennis offerings.