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CBASS intermediaries support programs serving more than 120,000 children and youth each year. Their collective accomplishments and experience as practitioners creates a platform for policy work that can influence the national field.

The CBASS strategy for policy change blends advocacy, practice and technical assistance. CBASS:

  • Makes the case to policymakers of the value of after-school in supporting children and youth and the essential role of intermediaries in building after-school systems.
  • Defines the policy challenges after-school intermediaries must address to increase the quality, availability and impact of after-school in their cities and beyond.
  • Convenes taskforce meetings of leading stakeholders around each policy challenge and formulates recommendations.
  • Uses taskforce recommendations to design and pilot replicable models in CBASS cities
  • Provides targeted technical assistance to support other jurisdictions in their after-school systems building efforts.
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Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary: Speaking in One Voice

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10 Nov 2008, Forum for Youth Investment

This policy commentary by the Forum for Youth Investment highlights the work of TASC and its partners in the Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS) to develop and adopt common youth-, program- and system-level measures that are easy and cost-effective for local systems to implement.

Shaping the Future of After-School

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25 Sep 2007, Collaborative for Building After-School Systems

The Collaborative (CBASS) published this report to document the critical role intermediaries play in the development of after-school systems in their cities. This report shows how intermediaries have helped increase the quality, sustainability, and availability of after-school and offers a vision for public policy change to support the continued growth of after-school.

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