Request
We are requesting additional data not available in the publicly available dataset, DYCD Program Sites.
a) Enrollment and budgeted capacity for afterschool programs during the school year and over the summer with data for:
• COMPASS: COMPASS Elementary, COMPASS Explore, COMPASS High School, COMPASS Middle School, and COMPASS SONYC Pilot programs.
• Beacons and Cornerstones
b) Enrollment and budgeted capacity for other program areas, including:
• Jobs and Internships, such as programs under SYEP program area (Ladders for Leaders (LFL), Younger Youth (YY), Older Youth (OY), SYEP School-Based, etc.), program area Advance and Earn (Advance and Earn, YAIP), program area WIOA (Learn and Earn, Train and Earn) and Opportunity Youth Support.
• Literacy and Immigrant Services, such as ESL Civics, Immigrant Families, NDA Immigrant Services, Adolescent Literacy, and Adult Literacy.
Afterschool programming and jobs/internships opportunities for children and youth during school year as well as summer opportunities, are important community resources that contribute to the well-being of children and youth they serve and their families. While DYCD already releases program location information, enrollment and capacity data provide more accurate information about the availability of these programs across New York City neighborhoods which vary in population density overall, and the demographic groups (e.g., children, youth, adults with limited English proficiency) most likely to utilize these programs. Site-level data with this additional information will allow us to provide more complete picture of afterschool and other youth services landscape in the city.
Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York uses information on afterschool and other youth services as part of our ongoing analysis of public data on community-level conditions and trends, of which opportunities for youth are a key component. These data will be used as part of data resources, including Keeping Track Online (data.cccnewyork.org) and other publications. On Keeping Track Online, we present data on child and family well-being aggregated by Community Districts, Zip Codes, School District, as well as map of community resources. There resources include banks, child care, libraries, and afterschool programming locations from the DYCD Program Sites dataset, among others.
We also use these data in reports, such as our community based assessment for Elmhurst-Corona, Queens: Community Driven Solutions to Improve Child and Family Well-being. In this publication, we used data on afterschool programming and youth services to illustrate opportunities for youth in specific community. In another publication, Keeping Track Of New York City’s Children: 2020, we report city-level trends on number of school-year and summer slots in afterschool programs (see page 34). These data resources offer multiple audiences who may rely on information on the needs and opportunities of children and families but do not have data analysis capacity on staff, including organizations that work with school-age children and provide education programming.