Engaging Older Youth: Program and City-Level Strategies to Support Sustained Participation in Out-of-School Time

From Public/Private Ventures, this report includes information on serving youth across six cities. Researchers studied 200 programs to better understand how they promote sustained participation among older youth. The resulting data indicated that two of the most important practices distinguishing high-retention programs were: ample leadership opportunities for youth and high levels of staff efforts to keep informed about participants' lives outside the programs.