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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. |