After School Tools

CROSSWALK: Comparing NAA’s Standards to COA’s Standards

Shows how COA’s After School Program Standards correspond to the Keys, Standards, and Examples in the NAA Standards for Quality School-Age Care.

CROSSWALK: Comparing NAA's 'Keys' to COA's 'Core Concept Standards'

Shows how the Core Concept Standards in COA’s After School Program Standards correspond to the Keys in the NAA Standards for Quality School-Age Care.

CROSSWALK: Comparing COA’s After School Standards with Identified Indicators of Quality

Shows how COA’s After School Standards correspond to the Indicators of Quality identified in a recently-published report.

SURVEY: After School field survey results - April 2009

In April 2009 COA surveyed over 5,000 after school stakeholders soliciting feedback ona few after school accreditation standards related to quality programming. A brief summary of these results is provided.

TEMPLATE: ASP Work Plan Template

Assign tasks, establish due dates, track assignments, monitor task completion, and more with this easily adaptable work plan template.

TEMPLATE: Implementation Plan

Used when the program has identified a standard or issue that requires a multi-step process for improvement during the Self-Study Process.

TIP SHEET: Accessing Documents from your My COA Account

Having trouble finding the electronic documents that COA sends to you via your My COA account? This tip sheet provides guidance on how to access those documents.

TIP SHEET: How to Develop a Policy

Provides guidance on how to develop an effective policy.

TIP SHEET: How to Write a Procedure

Provides guidance on how to develop an effective procedure.

TIP SHEET: Retention of Employment Records

Addresses how long an after school program should retain employment-related documents.

TIP SHEET: Stakeholder Involvement

Discusses the importance of stakeholder involvement to a well-designed, useful Performance and Quality Improvement (PQI) process.

WORKSHEET: ASP Standards Assessment and Tracking Table

Provides a framework for assessing and tracking your program's implementation of specific COA After School standards.

WORKSHEET: Evidence of Implementation for Accreditation

This worksheet is a checklist of documents to be submitted with the self-study and documents to have available during the site visit.

WORKSHEET: Personnel Qualifications

If personnel do not meet the requirements or other qualifications expectations in some standards, this tool can be used to demonstrate that factors such as experience, increased supervision, specialized training, or other factors may compensate for the lack of qualifications for individuals.

WORKSHEET: Program Observation

This worksheet will help you evaluate implementation of standards that are “observable” in nature. Endorsers will use the worksheet when assessing standards implementation during a site visit. Programs may use the worksheet when evaluating their own implementation of the standards. This worksheet includes only those standards that can, at least in part, be evaluated through observation.

WORKSHEET: Policies and Procedures Checklist for Accreditation

This worksheet is a checklist that includes all of the policy and procedure requirements from the Tables of Evidence in COA’s After School Program Standards.

FORM: Credit Card Authorization

For use in making credit card payments with COA.