Safe and Smart: Making After-School Hours Work for Kids - June 1998

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Acknowledgments

This document represents the efforts of many educators and community representatives on the front lines of providing before- and after-school and summer enrichment opportunities for children across America. We wish to thank them and all the programs that shared their stories with the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education.

Primary authors for the report include:

U.S. Department of Education
Julie Pederson
Adriana de Kanter
Lynson Moore Bobo

U.S. Department of Justice
Katrina Weinig
Kristyn Noeth

Special appreciation is extended to those who reviewed Safe and Smart: John Bartlett with Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, Marianne Kugler with the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Glynn Ligon of Evaluation Software Publishing, Inc., Dreama Love with the National PTA, June Million with the National Association of Elementary School Principals, Ann Petersen of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Jane Quinn and Thomas Brock with the DeWitt-Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, Michael Rubenstein and Lisa Wiener at Policy Studies Associates, Michelle Seligson and An-Me Chung with the Institute on Out-of-School Time at Wellesley College, Neera Tanden with the Office of the First Lady at the White House, and Heather Weiss of the Harvard Family Research Project.

Thanks to the federal staff who contributed to and commented on the document including:

U.S. Department of Education

Terry Peterson, Office of the Secretary; David Stevenson and Christine Li, Office of the Deputy Secretary; Val Plisko, Jennifer Ballen, Joanne Wiggins, Martha Chavez and Juliet Stoltey, Office of the Under Secretary; David Frank, Beverly Blondell, and Jacquelyn Zimmermann, Office of Public Affairs; Mary Jean LeTendre and Bill Modzeleski, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; Robert Stonehill, Oliver Moles, Kathy Fuller, and Carol Chelemer, Office of Educational Research and Improvement; Steve Winnick, Susan Winchell, Amy Comstock, Phil Rosenfelt, and Mari Colvin, Office of the General Counsel; Greg March, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services

U.S. Department of Justice

David Jones, Office of the Attorney General; Betty Chemers, Sarah Ingersoll, and Joseph Moone, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Joan Lombardi, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families; Alice Bettencourt and Andrew Williams, Child Care Bureau
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