Abstract
This study examined the effects of Dream Start participation on the use of after-school programs, considering its emphasis on the utilization of community resources. For this, it compare d the use of after-school programs in terms of the number of types and the total amount of time between children who had bee n participating in Dream Start and those who had not. The main findings are as follows. First, when all other conditi ons were held constant, children in Dream Start used more types of after-school programs compared to their correspondents. Second, children in Dream Start were more likely to use two types of after-school programs over weekdays or three types of programs for several days a week compared to their correspondents. Third, children in Dream Start spent less amount of time in the after-school programs compared to their correspondents. Even though this study found the effectiveness of Dream Start as a f acilitator of community resource utilization, future research needs to examine the effects of after-school program use in terms of its diversity and amount on the development of low-in-come children.
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