Through the After School for All Partnership, ARCHS is the largest provider of free after school services in the region.

ARCHS & ASAP

ARCHS is the largest area provider of free/subsidized after school programs - ensuring that students have a safe, fun and academically focused environment during non school hours. These programs also assure that parents can have greater flexibility with their work or school hours.

ARCHS has created a strategic community partnership with St. Louis For Kids to lead the After School For All Partnership (ASAP) - a result of the St. Louis Mayor's After School For All by 2010 Task Force.  The goal of the ASAP is to increase access to after school programs to area children and to create an organized after school network for the region to handle issues related to funding, quality and other issues. Hundreds of area educators receiving professional development training via ARCHS and St. Louis for Kids. ARCHS serves as the fiscal agent of the partnership.

New/Expanded After School Program Locations in St. Louis Serving an Added 2,700 Students Each School Day (New Programs Added Since Jan. 2007):

ASAP Directly Funded: (Providers)

• Cote Brilliante Elementary (West End Mt. Carmel)
• Baden Elementary (Neighborhood Houses)
• Blow Elementary (Grace Hill)
• Bryan Hill Elementary (A Better World)
• Dignity House (Neighborhood Houses)
• Farragut Elementary (A Better World)
• Hope Lutheran School (Non Public Schools Committee)
• Peabody Elementary (Northside Community Center)
• Make a Difference Center (West End Mt. Carmel)
• Mark Twain Elementary (Discovering Options)
• Monroe Elementary (Progressive Youth Connection)
• St. Francis Cabrini Academy (Non Public Schools Committee)
• St. James the Greater School (Non Public Schools Committee)
• St. Margaret of Scotland School (Non Public School Committee)

ASAP Partner - City of St. Louis Parks & Recreation Funded:

• Cleveland High
• Tandy Recreation Center
• West End Recreation Center

ASAP Partner - MO DESE 21st Century Funded:

• Academy of Academic Success (A Better World)
• Ames Elementary (SLPS)
• Blow Elementary (SLPS)
• Bunche Elementary (SLPS)
• Carr Lane (SLPS)
• Cleveland High (SLPS)
• Cole Elementary (SLPS)
• Columbia Elementary (HHBGC)
• Compton Drew Middle (Wyman)
• Gateway Middle (Wyman)
• Henry Elementary (SLPS)
• Hickey Elementary (SLPS)
• Imagine Academy (A Better World)
• Langston Middle (Wyman)
• Long Middle (Wyman)
• Mark Twain Elementary (SLPS)
• Monroe Elementary (SLPS)
• Simmons-Marshall Elementary (Neighborhood Houses)
• Stevens Middle (Wyman)

ASAP Partner - St. Louis Mental Health Board Funded:

• Ashland Elementary (Provident, Inc.)
• Cote Brilliante Elementary (Neighborhood Houses)
• Herzog Elementary (Provident, Inc.)
• Hodgen Elementary (Neighborhood Houses)
• Lexington Elementary (YWCA)
• Mark Twain Elementary (Discovering Options)
• Nance Elementary (YWCA)
• Peabody Elementary (Northside Community Center)
• Scruggs Elementary (YWCA)
• Woerner Elementary (Stray Dog Theatre)

ASAP Partner - MO Dept. of Social Services Funded Through ARCHS:

On-Going & Prior to ASAP (Jan. 07)

• Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma
• Ford Elementary (Youth In Need)
• Frobel Elementary (Youth In Need)
• Laclede Elementary (Youth In Need)
• Mann Elementary (Youth In Need)
• Meramec Elementary (Youth In Need)
• Oak Hill Elementary (Youth In Need)
• Pagedale Family Support Center (Beyond Housing)
• Operation Excel-Jennings (Provident, Inc.)
• Shenandoah Elementary (Progressive Youth Connection)
• Shepard Emints Academy (Youth In Need)
• Sigel Elementary (Youth In Need)
• Walbridge Elementary (Youth In Need)
• Woodward Elementary (Youth In Need)