Quality Standards

Tools

Toolfind: Youth Outcomes Measurement Tools Directory
Toolfind is a free directory designed to help professionals in youth-serving programs find measurement tools for up to 11 youth outcome areas.
Beyond the Bell
A suite of products designed to help afterschool directors, coordinators and staff create and sustain high-quality, effective afterschool programs.
Established Standards of Excellence
A tool serving to help programs chart their progress in areas of program management, linkages and participation.
NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool: Planning for Ongoing Program Improvement
This self-assessment tool provides an opportunity to utilize a common set of standards to assess, plan, design and execute strategies for ongoing program improvement.
Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool
This self-assessment tool provides a checklist to determine the effectiveness of an afterschool program in 10 key areas.
Summer Foods Standards of Excellence Chart
A complement to the standards of excellence document, this provides a checklist to be used during evaluation at program sites
The NAA Standards at a Glance
A brochure listing all 144 NAA Standards within 36 keys and six categories.
Kansas Afterschool Program Quality Guidelines and Self-Assessment Tool
A new tool to promote quality in afterschool in Kansas.
Oregon Afterschool Program Quality Standards
This tool provides programs, communities and stakeholders with ways to begin the important discussions about program quality.
Campaign for Quality: Promising Practices From California's High School After School Programs
NYSAN Program Quality Self-Assessment User's Guide
This User's Guide offers practical insight on the self-assessment tool and process, and aids in quality improvement and planning efforts for afterschool programs.
Building a System of Quality Improvement for School-Age Programs: State Self-Assessment Tool
This self-assessment tool is available to help state leaders identify the strengths, opportunities and gaps in their current system of quality supports for school-age programs.
Core Competencies for Afterschool Educators
This document is a guide designed to be used in conjunction with other existing resources to help program staff and supervisors improve their practice and program quality.
California After-School Program Quality Self-Assessment Tool User's Guide
This guide accompanies the QSA Tool, and providers users of the tool with strategies and resources for implementing this assessment in programs.
Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools
This guide was designed to compare the purpose, structure, content and technical properties of several youth program quality assessment tools.