ERIC Number: ED598722
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 192
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-0-309-49657-5
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Shaping Summertime Experiences: Opportunities to Promote Healthy Development and Well-Being for Children and Youth
Sepúlveda, Martín-José, Ed.; Hutton, Rebekah, Ed.
National Academies Press
For children and youth, summertime presents a unique break from the traditional structure, resources, and support systems that exist during the school year. For some students, this time involves opportunities to engage in fun and enriching activities and programs, while others face additional challenges as they lose a variety of supports, including healthy meals, medical care, supervision, and structured programs that enhance development. Children that are limited by their social, economic, or physical environments during the summer months are at higher risk for worse academic, health, social and emotional, and safety outcomes. In contrast, structured summertime activities and programs support basic developmental needs and positive outcomes for children and youth who can access and afford these programs. These discrepancies in summertime experiences exacerbate pre-existing academic inequities. While further research is needed regarding the impact of summertime on developmental domains outside of the academic setting, extensive literature exists regarding the impact of summertime on academic development trajectories. However, this knowledge is not sufficiently applied to policy and practice, and it is important to address these inequalities. "Shaping Summertime Experiences" examines the impact of summertime experiences on the developmental trajectories of school-age children and youth across four areas of well-being, including academic learning, social and emotional development, physical and mental health, and health-promoting and safety behaviors. It also reviews the state of science and available literature regarding the impact of summertime experiences. In addition, this report provides recommendations to improve the experiences of children over the summertime regarding planning, access and equity, and opportunities for further research and data collection.
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Child Development, Well Being, Youth Programs, Adolescent Development, Program Effectiveness, Individual Characteristics, Neighborhoods, Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Persons, Low Income Groups, Child Health, Socioeconomic Influences, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
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Publication Type: Books; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Wallace Foundation
Authoring Institution: National Academies, National Academy of Sciences; National Academies, National Academy of Engineering; National Academies, National Academy of Medicine
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