School-Age Child Care: Technical Assistance Papers, Numbers 1-7.

Collected are seven technical assistance papers concerning the development and implementation of community school age day care programs. The first paper provides a step-by-step guide to organizing a school-age child care program and the second paper focuses on developing a high quality program. Paper 3 explores administrative, policy, and legal issues related to running an effective program. The fourth paper discusses financial management of programs and the fifth indicates ways of finding the money needed to operate the program. Paper 6 discusses aspects of serving children with special needs in a school-age child care program. Paper 7 discusses personnel issues. Each paper lists sources of additional information. (RH)