Thank you for taking a part of your day to complete the Healthy Kids Program Quality Improvement Self-Assessment (HKPQISA )(Rev B). The purpose of this assessment is to measure the quality of your out-of-school time (OST) program across seven quality indicators:
1) safety;
2) supportive relationships;
3) meaningful youth involvement;
4) skill building;
5) community involvement;
6) appropriate structure; and
7) positive social norms (Eccles & Gootman 2002).
When program administrators optimize all seven quality indicators, youth participants are more likely to experience positive long-term outcomes. This assessment provides you, the program’s decision-maker, an opportunity to discover your program’s strengths and weaknesses and, ultimately, to make improvements to your program.