Afterschool Alliance
The nation's leading voice for afterschool, the Afterschool Alliance is the only organization dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for more afterschool investments. The Afterschool Alliance works with the Administration, the U.S. Congress, governors, mayors and advocates across the country. Today the Afterschool Alliance boasts more than 25,000 afterschool program partners and our publications reach more than 65,000 interested individuals every month.www.afterschoolalliance.org
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Oct 14, 2026
Dawn HibbardHOST
After-school programs keep kids safe, help working families, and inspire learning.
Dawn HibbardHOST
This month, The Flint Center's THRIVE After-School sites will celebrate Lights on After School, a project of the Afterschool Alliance that draws attention to the need for more after-school programs to serve the millions of kids nationwide who are unsupervised each weekday afternoon.
Dawn HibbardHOST
The Flint Center's THRIVE After-School program provides a free, innovative, evidence-based curriculum offering Flint kids a balanced blend of enrichment activities with academic interventions that promote success in school.
Dawn HibbardHOST
Our THRIVE sites serve elementary school kids, and our THRIVE UP sites serve middle and high school-aged kids.
Jason WilliamsHOST
So Utah has, this is according to Utah Afterschool Network, Utah has about 350,000 Utah children who say they would enroll in K-12 education, who say they would enroll, or excuse me, parents of the 350,000 roughly Utah children say they would enroll their child in an afterschool program if one were available.
Jason WilliamsHOST
But according to After School Alliance, what they call the 3 p.m. update, this is an annual thing, about 300,000, well, 290, 465 of those children, so five and six roughly, are currently not participating in one.
Jason WilliamsHOST
or don't have the option.
Jason WilliamsHOST
The Utah After School Network's Ben Trentelman, he's the executive director there, in a press release today said that five out of six kids in Utah are missing out on after school programs, and about 60,000 Utah children Only were participating in an after school program.