START a high quality Jewish After School program at your JCC

The Accelerator provides your JCC with the guidance, resources, and financial support you need to launch and sustain a successful Jewish After School program.

The First Cohort launches in Fall, 2023!

  • Accelerator Overview

    A two-year process, the Accelerator takes organizations every step of the way to a thriving After School program.

    Year 1 of the Accelerator focuses on building your program, training faculty and staff, and ensuring the program’s smooth integration with the organization as a whole. We will provide…

    • Adaptive leadership and change management training

    • Budget and financial planning for your program and its integration with the larger organizational budget

    • Transportation and logistics planning and training

    • Curricular training and implementation assistance

    • Professional development in the areas of experiential education, classroom management, inclusion, differentiated instruction, and child development

    • Best practices, strategies and templates for recruitment and enrollment, marketing, communications, and community relationship building.

    Year two of the Accelerator focuses on launching and refining your after school program throughout the first year of operation. We will provide

    • Ongoing training on all of the topics from year 1

    • Facilitated curricular adaptation for alignment with organization mission and goals

    • Program observations and evaluation

    • Feedback systems and templates

    • Strategic planning for the future (3 year plan)

    • Community engagement planning for the future (3 year plan)

    • Staff retention strategy

    • Workplace culture assessment and recommendations

    • Program budget audit

Get in touch.

Please fill out the form below for more information about the START Accelerator track and to get in touch directly with someone at JASA.