TASC: What We Do: Build After-School Systems: National Technical Assistance

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To learn more about technical assistance services, please contact Director of National Technical Assistance Jennifer Siaca Curry at jsiaca [at] tascorp.org.

What We Do

TASC offers technical assistance services to schools and programs as well as citywide, state and regional organizations. We focus on both system and program-level capacity building to improve program quality. We also help cities, regions and states organize their resources to build and sustain coherent, efficient after-school systems.

TASC has helped 30 cities, states and regions strengthen programs and build after-school systems.

How Do We Do It

We contract to provide customized assistance based on need. Among the tasks we address are these:

Coordinating local resources to support systems
Building effective school – community organization partnerships
Building organizational capacity
Program start-up, scheduling and implementation
Quality self-assessment and improvement
Fiscal management
Data management
Hiring and developing staff
Recruiting and retraining program participants
Identifying and implementing strong curriculum
Evaluating program outcomes