Student Engagement
Finding the Right Hook: Strategies for attracting and sustaining participation in after-school programs
This article offers promising recruitment and retention strategies to school administrators seeking to boost participation rates in their school-based after school programs. Published by Harvard Family Research Project, in the May 2005 issue of "The School Administrator" magazine.
Moving Beyond the Barriers: Attracting and Sustaining Youth Participation in Out-of-School Time Programs
This research brief by the Harvard Family Research Project examines issues related to youth participation in out-of-school time programs. The authors provide discussion about incentives for and barriers to participation, as well as a list of ten recruitment and retention strategies which have been successful in engaging youth in OST programs. Finally, there is a call for further research to compile effective means of increasing youth utilization of OST programs. July 2004.
