In most single-parent families and in growing numbers of dual-parent families, parents must work and cannot be home after school. Thus, increasingly, young adolescents are spending the after-school hours unsupervised and uninvolved in their communities at a time in their lives typically characterized by high energy, a striving for self-definition, and a need to prove their personal competence in a variety of areas. This book presents ideas about after-school program activities, administration, fundraising, public relations, inservice training, facilities, program evaluation, and staffing. All program descriptions are indexed by name, geographic location, types of sponsoring agency and funding source, program site, and types of activities the program offers. A "Programs at a Glance" index summarizes the information indexed in these categories. The first 14 program descriptions provide a comprehensive profile of how organizations implement their programs. The last 10 brief descriptions focus on a variety of proven programming ideas. A program index is provided.