Many more Indiana parents want afterschool programs for their children than are able to access them, according to America After 3PM, a household survey commissioned by the Afterschool Alliance.

Parents have expressed strong support for afterschool programs by overwhelming margins. But unmet demand has increased over the past six years, with low-income families in particular citing cost as a barrier to enrolling their children. As a result, for every child in an afterschool program in Indiana today, 3 more are waiting to get in.

Today's world brings a host of exhausting challenges that necessitate extra attention to the health and well-being of our field's professionals. Join this webinar to hear recommendations on preventing burnout and compassion fatigue, along with strategies and practices to ensure that those who work in service of others are also taking care of themselves. 

 

This event is presented by NAA and MHA Houston in partnership with the Indiana Afterschool Network.

Join the Afterschool Alliance for a virtual briefing on new nationwide data on demand for afterschool programs and parent views on afterschool opportunities. The report "America After 3PM: Demand Grows, Opportunity Shrinks," includes responses from more than 30,000 U.S. families and builds on household surveys conducted in 2004, 2009 and 2014. It offers a pre-pandemic snapshot of how children and youth spend their afternoons and includes a separate survey of parents conducted this fall.

The goal of the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis Youth Empowerment Program is to engage young people as change makers within their communities through high-quality, outcome-based positive youth development programs and services for middle and high school students. They strive to engage young people through community-based education, mentoring, and employment readiness to help them develop skills and strengthen ties to the community.

In America, we are often told that wealth and financial success are achievable through education, hard work, and personal responsibility. But for Black Americans, racist lending, housing and hiring practices embedded in laws, systems and structures have made the wealth gap nearly impossible to close. Learn more from our panel of financial experts, community leaders and educators about the significant wealth disparities between Black and white families and how we can take bold action toward preventing that gap from expanding – and the steps necessary to work toward closing it – so that every person in our community can find the financial security and success to achieve their full potential.