Quality Improvement System For Afterschool

 Prime Time, over the past several years, worked to establish quality standards for afterschool programs in Palm Beach County.  In collaboration with local stakeholders, county-wide standards were developed and piloted in 2002 with 38 afterschool programs.

Prime Time worked closely with High/Scope Educational Research Foundation to develop a customized quality assessment tool based on their Youth Programs Quality Assessment (YPQA) to measure these standards.  The Palm Beach County Program Quality Assessment (PBC-PQA) is a measurement tool for the county’s Quality Improvement System for afterschool programs.    As conveners of the Quality Improvement System (QIS), Prime Times main focus is to highlight these standards and provide support to programs as they move through this system.