21st Century Community Learning Centers

About 21 CCLC

The purpose of the Alaska 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program is to provide competitive grants to organizations that are working in partnership within their community and schools to provide expanded learning and enrichment opportunities for children and their families outside of regular school hours. The program is designed to target funds to communities that have low achieving students and high rates of poverty but lack the resources to establish after school centers.

Competitive Grant Opportunities

 3/8/18:
DEED has released its 21^st CCLC FY19 Request for Applications (RFA) for competitive grants that would begin providing out-of-school time programming in the fall of the 18-19 school year.  Awards are made for five years, contingent upon federal congressional funding and adequate progress meeting grant goals.

Applications are due April 27, 2018
As of March 23, 2018, the US federal budget for FFY18 that would provide the funding for these grants for the 18-19 school year has been passed, providing more than $5 million in funds for Alaska grantees, of which we hope to award about $3 million through this competitive process.

• Funding for Alaska’s 21st CCLC program is provided by federal funds from ESEA, Title IV, Part B

Important Dates

• 2017 Alaska Afterschool Conference
     Fairbanks, Alaska
  • November 16-17, 2017

Contact Us

• 21st CCLC Program Manager
  • Jessica Paris: (907) 465-8716

RFA Technical Assistance Webinars

DEED will offer two optional online technical assistance webinars, one aimed at new applicants and the other at all applicants. Plans are for both webinars to be recorded and posted on the department website. Both webinars will use this connection:
Webinar Link | Webinar Phone: 1-855-244-8681 | Webinar Access Code: 805 657 792

Technical Assistance Webinar #1 for New Applicants
Webinar #1 Recording
Tuesday, March 13, 2018 from 10:30 AM to Noon
Topics: target audience for funds, academic focus, best practices, viable staffing, necessary community partnerships, and overview capacity to deliver programming

Technical Assistance Webinar #2 for All Applicants
Webinar #2 Recording
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 from 10:30 AM to Noon
Topics: Application requirements, rubrics, and changes to this application.

Support Documents for Applicants

• 21^st CCLC DEED School Data Sheet (excel)
• Alaska's Education Challenge Report (pdf)
• Revised Alaska ESSA State Plan 2.28.18 (pdf)
• Alaska 21^st CCLC RFA – Evaluation Section Technical Assistance (word)

Check back soon for updates!

External Organization Partner Pool

In order to increase the capacity of Alaska’s communities to offer high-quality 21^st Century Community Learning Center (21^st CCLC) applications and programs, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) to make available a list of potential Alaska non-profit “external organizations” that 21^st CCLC applicants may be interested in partnering with when building a 21^st CCLC out-of-school-time program.  Community partnerships within 21^st CCLC programs are strongly encouraged as they have the potential to increase program quality, variety, and sustainability. The term "partnerships" in this instance is used loosely and may involve for-pay contracted services, in-kind services, etc.

• Alaska Nonprofit Organization Profile Form
• Alaska 21^st CCLC External Organization Partner Pool

Grantee Documents and Links

• Alaska 21st CCLC Key Quality Indicators (pdf)
• Alaska 21st CCLC Guidance for Local Evaluations (pdf)
• Alaska 21st CCLC Guidance for Sustainability Planning (pdf)
• DEED Uniform Chart of Accounts
• Federal Fiscal Guidance for Grantees (UGG and EDGAR)
• Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

• Federal Equal Treatment Regulations
• 21st CCLC Federal Data Collection Site (21APR)
• 21st CCLC Federal Statute-ESEA, Title IV, Part B as amended by ESSA (pdf)
• 21st CCLC Federal GPRA Measures (pdf)
• 21st CCLC Federal Non-Regulatory Guidance (pdf)
• 21st CCLC Federal Guidance on Credit Recovery (pdf)

Current State Grantees

• State Grantees
• Statewide Evaluation Report (pdf)
• Alaska 21^st CCLC Fact Sheet (pdf)

Resources for Afterschool

• Afterschool Alliance
• Alaska Afterschool Network (AAN)
• Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game Educator's Page
• Alaska's Adopted Academic Standards
• Alaska's Adopted Employability Standards
• APICC Youth Employability Skills
• APS Award Checklist
• Assessing Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools
• Building and Managing Quality Afterschool Programs
• CDC's Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Within Youth-Serving Organizations
• Click2Science
• Community Schools Evaluation Toolkit
• DEED Teacher Toolbox
• DEED's USDA Child Nutrition Programs

• Doing What Works
• Foundations, Inc.
• From Soft Skills to Hard Data: Measuring Youth Program Outcomes
• Harvard Family Research Project – Afterschool Evaluation 101
• Lights On Afterschool
• Measuring Social and Emotional Learning: A Brief Guide
• NAA Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Standards
• NYSED List of Model Prevention Programs Supporting Academic Achievement
• SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
• SEL Assessment Toolkit
• The Fourth R
• You for Youth (Y4Y)