What YouthStar Does for You

 

Taking attendance is a snap!

  • You'll be amazed at how fast you can take attendance.
  • Choose from four different methods: daily, weekly, monthly, or simple click.
  • Use a bar code scanner to speed up the process even more.

Put those old spreadsheets and pencil-and-paper systems away; you'll never need them again.

Call 530.228.1994 to see how easy it is to take attendance for your after-school program!

Don't let information demands control your time! Use YouthStar to manage the information you need.

  • Keep all of your after-school program information in a single system, from one to many sites.
  • Keep track of classes, class schedules, teacher assignments, and student enrollments
  • Use YouthStar's powerful reporting system to instantly get the after-school program data you need, when you need it.

Everything you need to know about your after-school program students...right at your fingertips.

  • Student identification, address, and demographics
  • Daytime school and teacher information, including special program designations
  • Print student Photo ID Cards (with or without bar codes for attendance scanning)
  • Authorized/unauthorized contact persons
  • Activity permissions
  • Medical and health information including emergency contacts
  • Current and past enrollment histories
  • Student notes (for example, disciplinary incidents)

Those pesky ASES reports? A couple of clicks, and you'll be able send them off!

  • Keep track of student performance indicators for 21st Century and ASES programs. Your ASES reports are built-in!
  • Print completed, perfectly formatted 21st Century Annual Performance Report--let YouthStar do the calculations.
  • We will add indicator tracking for additional states upon request.
  • Teacher survey and Body Mass Index instruments included. We will add your custom pretest/posttest instruments.
  • Export demographic, attendance, and funding data to Microsoft Excel for custom analysis

A full suite of utilities to make managing your after-school program easier.

  • Export demographic, funding, and attendance information to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
  • List site holidays for automatic configuration of holidays in class schedules
  • View overall enrollment and attendance statitistics
  • Use Pivot Views to do your own custom data analyses
  • Set number of minutes that elapse before the system automatically returns to log-on screen (hiding student data)
  • Manage a variety of lists, such as staff work status, pay factors (for staff timesheets), student service categories (for student notes), service locations, staff occupations, volunteer sources, and fundings sources.
  • Transfer students from one site to another
  • Delete data associated with selected student(s)
  • Delete data associated with selected date(s)

What do you need know about your after-school program attendance? Use YouthStar to find the answers instantly.

  • Print your own logo in header of each report
  • Your Prop 49/ASES reports are built in (California Sites)
  • Student information reports, including profiles, notes, permissions, and attendance histories
  • After school program student demographic summaries
  • Summary reports of attendance and snacks served, for the entire site, AM and/or PM programs, or by funding source.
  • Class attendance history and monthly attendance reports
  • Hours attended (weekly attendance method only)
  • Print a variety of lists and labels
  • Print out pre-formatted, completed pages of the 21st Century Annual Performance Report
  • Staff, volunteer, and student hours and ratios
  • Enrollments and unenrollments
  • Student lists and attendance counts
  • New and exiting students lists

What's your story? Can you tell it well? Use the YouthStar Journal to create an "oral history" of efforts

  • Capture your best ideas...keep a record of what you are doing, what you have learned, what works best, and how you are applying these lessons to continual program improvement. Use the journal to record site policies, procedures, minutes of staff meetings, etc.
  • Print a book that tells your story. Choose your own chapter headings, and let YouthStar automatically organize your entries by chapter. Export your book to MS Word for further editing.