In 2014, the Afterschool Alliance found that there were 221,000 children in the state of Oregon who weren’t participating in afterschool programs, but would participate if one were available to them. This statistic poses the question: How can we, as a state, work towards ensuring that there are high-quality afterschool and summer programs available and accessible to all 221,000 of those children?
In early 2018, OregonASK embarked on a two-year exploratory data collection project to help answer this question. What we found is that youth from underserved communities face the most barriers to accessing afterschool programs, and yet demonstrate the most benefits from participation. Click on the link below to read our full report or you can view a summary of our findings here.