State & City Initiatives

After School For All (AFA)
The San Francisco After School for All Initiative (AFA) is a citywide collaboration that supports the city’s diverse after school community to offer safe, quality programs for all children where activities and events are tailored to the interests and needs of local neighborhoods.  This effort is a partnership of the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF), several city departments, the San Francisco Unified School District, community based organizations and foundations.  Our goal is to provide a diversity of quality after school programs for all elementary and middle school children by 2010.  To do this, the initiative will expand services, improve the quality of programs and explore system-building issues such as technical assistance, field capacity building, workforce development, and quality academic and enrichment activities.

Afterschool for All Technical Assistance Collaborative (AFA TAC) 
The Afterschool for All Technical Assistance Collaborative (AFA TAC) is a new partnership between the California School-Age Consortium, the Community Network for Youth Development (CNYD), SHPD ExCEL After School Programs, the Youth Development Peer Network (YDPN), Sports 4 Kids, and the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and their Families (DCYF). Our vision is to create a coordinated city-wide model of technical assistance to support afterschool programs and develop a workforce of prepared, committed, stable, and supported professionals. For more information, visit the AFA TAC website.

Cesar E. Chavez Afterschool Service Clubs
This year eight ExCEL Middle School After School Programs were awarded the Cesar E. Chavez Afterschool Service Club Grant through California Volunteers.  The clubs engage youth in community service projects while learning about the life and values of Cesar E. Chavez.  Participating school sites include Marina, Francisco, Horace Mann, Everett, SF Community, Martin Luther King, Jr., Willie Brown, and Visitacion Valley Middle Schools.  For more information, visit the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation website at http://www.chavezfoundation.org. 

Nutrition Education Leadership Learning Community (NELLC)
SFUSD ExCEL is part of the state-wide NELLC initiative.  The overall purpose of this three-year initiative are 1) to improve the health and well-being of low-income children and families by strengthening California's after school programs through development and implementation of exemplary after school practices in nutrition, physical activity, and food security, 2)  to make a new source of matching funding available to after school programs throughout California  3)  to enable the California Nutrition Network for Healthy Active Families (a division of the California Department of Health Services) to utilize after school programs as another way to reach low-income families and their children with interventions to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity and to support increased participation in the Food Stamp Program and federal food assistance.

Physical Education Nutrition Initiative (PENI)
The ExCEL After School Programs work in partnership with school day physical education instructors to infuse quality research based physical activities into the after school programs. Seventeen middle schools receive additional resources to infuse physical activities into programs. Learn more.

Regional Learning Centers  
Since 2001 the ExCEL After School Programs have been recognized as one of California’s Regional Learning Centers. In partnership with the Alameda County Office of Education, ExCEL After School Programs provide technical assistance and support to publicly funded after school programs throughout the greater Bay Area.
Read fact sheet (pdf).

San Francisco TEAM  
ExCEL After School collaborates with the Department of Children Youth & their Families (DCYF) to implement literacy rich after school programs in each of San Francisco’s 11 supervisory districts. The San Francisco TEAM programs take place at San Francisco schools and are provided in partnership with local Community Based Organizations. Read fact sheet (pdf).