National Lights On After School
updated: Oct 11, 2012, 11:42 AM

Source: City of Santa Barbara

National Lights On Afterschool Celebrated Locally on Thursday, October 18

After School Programs are more important than you may ever know. In America today, 1 in 4 youth - 15 million children - are left alone and unsupervised after school.

Each October, 1 million Americans and thousands of communities nationwide celebrate Lights On Afterschool to shine a light on afterschool programs like RAP (Recreation Afterschool Program) that: · keep kids safe,

· inspire them to learn

· help working families.

The RAP program at Adams, Monroe, Roosevelt and Washington elementary schools invite the community to celebrate the annual Lights On Afterschool event on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at Adams School, 2701 Las Positas Road in Santa Barbara, from 4:30-6pm. The Lights On Afterschool celebration is simple: parents, students and community members are invited to an open house at Adams where RAP program staff and students are extending RAP to 6pm (normal sign out time is 5:30) to recognize the important, positive benefits of afterschool programs and to share that with the local school community.

RAP students and staff along with A-OK (After School Opportunities for Kids) program at Adams School will: · Host a large field activity on the lower field (Birdie and the Perch)

· Display coloring contest art work

· Display art club decorations

· Provide a Lights On head band making station and Face Painting

· Perform

· Provide information on other Parks and Recreation Department afterschool and community programs

Listed below are events taking place at the other RAP sites (Monroe, Roosevelt and Washington elementary schools) from 4:30- 5:30 pm: · Light Bulb Art · Performances · Face painting · Parks and Recreation Program and community information

Press is invited to attend. For more information, please call Youth Activities at 560-7552 or 560-7555

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