The David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality is a mission-driven joint venture of the Forum for Youth Investment and the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation.  The Center is charged with positioning point of service quality as a powerful public idea that drives the out-of-school-time (OST) field toward higher levels of understanding, expectation, and action about the quality of developmental and learning experiences available to children and youth.  Specifically, the Center leverages its research, training and technical assistance capacities to help OST agencies build quality accountability and improvement systems that improve professional skill sets and change outcome trajectories for youth.  It works across communities, sectors, and disciplines to complement the Forum’s broader efforts to ensure that all youth are ready for college, work and life.  http://www.highscope.org/