No outreach at this time has been made to students who live in the Haverhill area but attend alternative schooling at private schools or are by being home schooled. Project staff work closely with school personnel to identify those students who can best benefit from the after-school experience.
Parents can also register their children on their own without a referral from the school.
Due to difficulties in hiring staff, the 1998-99 school year program began in January and met two days a week through June. In this period 25 children participated. Since the start of the new school year, the program has expanded to three days a week, from 3 PM to 6 PM, to accommodate parents' schedules. An effort has been made to retain last year's fifth grade participants by adding allowing sixth graders to enroll. As yet this effort has not primarily successful, possibly due to a change in program staff.