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Dear PSAYDN Network Member:

Your ideas about and reactions to PSAYDN's work are very important to help us reach our goals. Please respond to this brief survey to help guide our future!

How useful is the content of PSAYDN's "Take Ten" Newsletter?

What topics or themes would you like to see in PSAYDN's "Take Ten" Newsletter?

How useful is the content on PSAYDN's Website?

How would you rate the PSAYDN Website's ease of use?

What topics or resources would you like to see on PSAYDN's website?

How many times have you used the Advocacy Toolkit, shown in the illustration below?

How useful was the Advocacy Toolkit in making your advocacy efforts successful?

      Exceptionally Useful
      Highly Useful
      Moderately Useful
      Low Usefulness
      Very Low Usefulness
      Did Not Use Toolkit

What information or resources would you like to see in future Advocacy Toolkits?

How useful was the "Lights On Afterschool" event?

      Exceptional Usefulness
      High Usefulness
      Moderate Usefulness
      Low Usefulness
      Very Low Usefulness
      Did Not Attend / Cannot Recall

What other supports can PSAYDN offer to make "Lights On Afterschool" events more successful?

The Legislative Budget and Finance Committee Report, Afterschool Programs in Pennsylvania, issued in July 2009, recommended that a Statewide Afterschool Coordinating Council be created to address the issues listed below.

Please rate each recommendation in terms of their importance to you.

	How important is this recommendation?

Identifying stable sources of funding including promoting potential new funding sources
Identifying strategies for finding and retaining capable afterschool program staff
Establishing and maintaining quality program standards
Transportation to or from out-of-school programs
Developing strategies and helping providers design effective programs for engaging teens
Fostering further collaboration and partnerships with schools, businesses, and other untapped community groups.
Promoting additional web-based regional databases of afterschool programs.
Assessing local needs and barriers to afterschool programs, especially for adolescents.

For each PSAYDN goal (Sustainability, Quality and Policy), please provide a written comment to the questions in each row.

	Goal 1: Sustainability: Create a sustainable structure of statewide, regional and local partnerships, particularly school-community partnerships, focused on supporting policy development at all levels.	Goal 2 Quality: Support statewide systems to ensure afterschool programs are of high quality.	Goal 3 Policy: Support the development and growth of statewide policies that will secure the resources that are needed to sustain new and existing afterschool programs.

What is PSAYDN's greatest accomplishment(s) in addressing this goal to date?
What are 2-3 strategies PSAYDN should take to achieve this goal in the future?

What topics would you like presented at future PSAYDN quarterly or regional meetings?

Do you have any other comments or suggestions about PSAYDN?