Center for School, Family, and Community

Education, Career, and Community Program

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The Education, Career, and Community Program helps educators, businesses, and community leaders prepare youth and adults for a quality work life, active citizenship, and a lifetime of learning.

ECC offers a wide range of training, technical assistance, professional development, curriculum development, and consultation services in the following areas:

For more information about how we can support your efforts to foster healthy connections between school, afterschool, and community, explore the links to the right.

Our Services

ECC staff members bring more than a decade of experience working with out-of-school time (OST) and youth development programs in the Northwest region and nationally. Our expertise stems from knowledge of the latest research combined with on-the-ground observation of best practices in action.

Long standing relationships among ECC staff and out-of-school time program leaders have instilled us with a broad understanding of issues and concerns in the field of out-of-school time, especially the challenges involved with implementing activities that support school curricula while maintaining the rich, unique environment of afterschool/community education programs.

ECC's areas of training and technical assistance include:

  • A full range of assessment and evaluation services, including data collection, clarifying goals and projecting outcomes, using data for program improvement, and reporting data to key stakeholders
  • Research reviews and syntheses on current and emergent issues
  • Consultation on program design and implementation
  • Development of training materials, fact sheets, and other program resources

We also offer training and capacity-building workshops, ranging from single-program workshops to large-scale conferences designed for cohorts of federal and state grantees. Sample workshop topics include:

  • Literacy (including reading aloud, dramatization, discussion, family literacy, and writing)
  • Using the Afterschool Training Toolkit for professional development
  • Embedding academic enrichment
  • Connecting to the school day
  • Tutoring
  • Evaluating program progress and outcomes
  • Adult-youth mentoring and peer mentoring
  • Connecting school to work
  • Customized trainings to address specific program needs and challenges