THE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL

College prep & success:pase prepares community-based organizations (cbos) to offer high- quality college prep and success programming, provides resources to aid in the development and sustainability of their programs, connects cbos with institutions of higher education, and facilitates broad dialogue about how best to prepare young people for and guide them through successful college experiences, including transferring colleges. Pase recently released a college transfer guide and hosted a forum called charting the path to college transfer: the role of cbos to convene cbo professionals and provide tools, resources, and supports in transfer work. Pase also hosts an annual cbo/college fair and forum to bring together cbo professionals and college admissions staff, working to build robust partnerships between organizations supporting first-generation students and higher education institutions.

Providing high-quality, interactive, practically oriented professional development is central to pase's mission. Pase offers professional development workshops open to the afterschool field; individualized technical assistance to agencies; forums to convene diverse groups of stakeholders; strategic discussions to develop consensus on emerging needs and trends; citywide conferences; and the creation and publication of resource materials. Pase also holds symposia, focus groups, and strategic discussions on emerging topics in youth development including "(re)imagining a recovery agenda: leveraging the science of learning for youth success" to help elevate the need for a recovery agenda that expands beyond the current response to learning loss and more fully encompasses an equitable recovery process that centers the comprehensive needs of youth and youth success.pase's breadth of programs continue to strengthen our community of over 1,600 afterschool agencies to be more effective and efficient while also inspiring innovation and improving the quality of programs for over 500,000 kids and teens in new york city in the last year alone. Global learning:a majority of young adults in the united states lack an understanding of the interconnectedness of the modern world. For young people living in poverty, afterschool programs are often their sole connection to the larger world and to understanding their home and neighborhood cultures in a larger context. In today's world, the ability to understand complex global issues, exposure to and comfort with cultures other than one's own, and the ability to work in groups skills that can be developed and honed in afterschool programs are critical to young peoples' overall success.pase's global learning initiative strengthens the ability of the afterschool community to support global learning with youth, helping them develop the necessary skills and knowledge to access global opportunities, to participate in a global economy, and to become responsible global citizens. Youth outcomes: pase understands the critical importance of building afterschool agencies' capacity to select, measure, and communicate youth outcomes that are appropriate both to the youth they serve and the services they provide. Pase has set the expectation of high-quality programming throughout the field, and as such, youth outcomes are used as a lens through which pase provides all our work. Pase continues to provide support to youth agencies in understanding, measuring, and communicating their impact on the youth they serve, with special attention paid to the nuances of capturing and communicating impact during virtual programming.