The Afterschool Technical Assistance Collaborative is a group of national organizations working to aid states through technical assistance in building statewide afterschool networks.

Who is ATAC?

The Afterschool Technical Assistance Collaborative is a group of national organizations working to aid states, through technical assistance, in building statewide afterschool networks. Members of the ATAC team represent a diverse array of constituency groups, and, to a large degree, reflect the range of stakeholders and expertise that is needed at the state level to affect change.


What Does ATAC Do?

The overall goals of the ATAC group are to:

facilitate statewide, regional, and local partnerships at all levels

support statewide efforts to secure resources needed to sustain new and existing afterschool programs

support statewide systems to ensure programs are of high quality

How Does ATAC Work?

ATAC organizations are available to assist statewide afterschool networks in a variety of ways. Each state is assigned an ATAC contact person who acts as a liaison to the other ATAC team members. Thus, networks discuss technical assistance needs with their ATAC contacts who then use the resources of the entire ATAC team to respond strategically to the network request. Because assistance is customized to the needs of each state, ATAC does not deliver a preset menu of technical assistance options. Ways in which ATAC delivers technical assistance are:

participating in conference calls

convening on-site meetings

email consultations

gathering and researching information

creating tools and materials

brokering assistance, consultation, and facilitation

Why is ATAC providing technical assistance to statewide afterschool networks?

Knowing that scaling up and sustaining successful afterschool programs will require coordinated and collaborative efforts and systems across many public and private sectors; ATAC is working to help strengthen the capacity of states to build and sustain statewide infrastructures.

ATAC works with states to ensure that policies are in place to support the sustainability and quality of afterschool infrastructures and programs. It is the hope of the Mott Foundation and ATAC that there will eventually be networks in all 50 states.

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