Blog 18: 2 hour meeting answer 3

1: How can a parks and rec afterschool program best support community adolescence?
2: A parks and rec afterschool program can best support community adolescence by having staff willing to build relationships with kids.
3: Well afterschool aliance states that staff building relationships with kids increase the likelyhood of kids coming back.
Most kids at the center that are regulars are friends with the staff?
When I was small and going to the center I always wanted to go to hang out with Bryce, a staff member that was always in the basketball gym.
4:After School Aliance's article helped me justify this.
5: I plan to study this by asking kids if that affects their attendence.

Blog 17: Interview 4

1. How can a parks and recs afterschool program best support community adolescence?
2. What is there to be gained from extracurricular programs?
3. What factors create a good extracurricular program?
3. What is the goal of an extracurricular program?
4. What is there to be gained from health programs like bootcamp?
5. What factors go into a good health program?
6. What is the goal of a health program?
7.  What makes a program successful?
8. What effects can a cooking or food related program have on kids?
9. What effects can a dance program have on kids?
10. Is getting kids out of their comfort zone a common goal among programs?
11. What programs do you think support kids the most?
12. What programs make kids want to keep coming back?
13. How important is it to build relationships with the kids?
14. What kinds of programs do kids go for the most?
15. What is hardest when coming up with new programs?
16. What would you describe as a quality program?
17. How big of a role do the staff play in an effective program?
18. What else is offered here that has good long term effects on kids?
19. What are the conditions of an ideal program?
20. What can staff do to help the kids benefit from being here?

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

My EQ: How can a parks and rec after school program best support community adolescence?

My second answer is that parks and rec afterschool programs can best support community adolescence by encouraging healthy and active habits.

Details:
My mentor says health programs are more requested than any other.
It's well known that child obesity is on the rise, so why not provide healthy alternatives?
Afterschool Alliance states that health programs are more demanded than other enrichment afterschool programs.

I plan to continue my study of answer two by following the results of kids involved in the boot camp program at my center.

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

(1) For this component I plan on continuing to work with kids at the center I'm at and actually asking and recording what positive things they take away from the programs.
(2) I can easily meet the 30 hour requirement because there are always multiple programs going on at the center.
(3) this correlates with my EQ because my EQ is centered around how these programs can support the kids.