Afterschool Care

The Montana Afterschool Network is a statewide coalition working to increase the availability and quality of afterschool programming statewide. It includes licensed child care programs, school-based and school-linked programs, youth development programs, mentoring and crime/drug abuse prevention programs.  

The Montana Afterschool Network is coordinated by the Montana Child Care Resource & Referral Network with support from the C.S. Mott Foundation, First Interstate Bank Foundation, Homer A. and Mildred S. Scott Foundation, The Steele-Reese Foundation, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services, and Montana Office of Public Instruction.

 Afterschool Care...
Good for Kids, Good for Schools

• Research demonstrates that quality afterschool programs support children’s personal safety, social resiliency, academic achievement, relationships with concerned adults, and leadership experiences as well as parent employment and economic productivity. 
  (2004 National Governors Association)

• Without these programs, children are more susceptible to personal injury, juvenile delinquency, academic underachievement and high school drop-outs, teen pregnancy and substance abuse. 
  (2002 Montana Interagency Coordinating Council for Prevention Services)

• Nine (9) out of 10 American voters are willing to pay more taxes if they are certain those monies will support afterschool programs which are key to keeping students out of trouble. 
  (2004 National Institute on Out-of-School Time, Center For Research on Women, Wellesley College)

• On any given school day, Montana communities have the capacity to provide supervised afterschool activities to an average of 12% of elementary school students with working parents. 
  (2004 Montana Child Care Resource & Referral Network)

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