Skuza, JenniferSheldon, TimothySheehan, TrishTzenis, Joanna2012-12-102012-12-102010https://hdl.handle.net/11299/140674The Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project is focused on strengthening the ability of middle school aged youth to set and achieve short and long-term educational goals by using an innovative and organic afterschool program model that is highly experiential. The aim of the program is to help youth own their learning by igniting their interest in education to to work with parents and guardians to support them in their role as their child's first educator. This reports features the impact from the second year of the project whereby sixty-nine youth and seventy-one parents and guardians participated.en-USmiddle schooleducational goalsafter schoolparent educationparent engagementstudent engagementReport