The hours children spend outside school are critical to their mental and physical growth.
Children can gain social skills, find new interests, and improve upon their abilities.
They can form relationships with caring helpful adults. These positive experiences will affect and enrich their lives. These experiences can also lead to achievement in school and to life-long success. Program funds are disseminated on an annual basis through a competitive grant process. The grants are for the purpose of program development or expansion for programs enrolling children five through fifteen years of age or kindergartners through eighth graders.