Our Formula for Fun

At Kids After Hours our formula for fun is:

Coke's secret formula.  Big-Mac special sauce.  Bush's Beans family recipe.
The Kids After Hours 'formula for fun' is not as closely guarded or as complicated as some of those, but it's still important and worth the four minutes it will take to read about it.
Energetic, Ethusiastic Staff + Variety of Activies + Safe, Secure Surroundings = Fun at Kids After Hours

Safe, Secure Surroundings

Just like the formula shows, the fun starts with a staff that is involved and excited about what they are doing.  If they don't have those qualities, they are not on staff at Kids After Hours.  Our Center Directors are involved from planning fun activities to taking part in them with the kids each and every day all the while evaluating the fun level and making things even more fun!  Our staff's energy and creativity makes Kids After Hours a truly special and unique place for kids to come and have fun.

Our Center Directors bring and average of almost 15 years of experience in childcare, developing programs, and activities designed to help keep your children engaged, interested, and having fun.  We're also very proud of what it says about our programs, that so many of our former campers and before and after hours kids eventually return to us as staff members.

Energetic, Enthusiastic Staff

The safety of your children while under the care of Kids After Hours is our number one priority.  Whether at our program Centers or out on a field trip, we use a variety of measures to help ensure a safe environment for the more than 1,000 kids that we care for each year.  Here are a few of the things we do:

1. Staffing-  We maintain at least a 15:1 child to counselor ratio at all Kids After Hours locations and quite often that ratio is closer to 10:1.  This child to counselor ratio helps to prevent accidents from happening in the first place, but when they do, we notify parents immediately.

2.  Safety-  Whether it's our Before School Care , After School Care, or Summer Camp programs we have processes and procedures in place to maintain safety for each child at Kids After Hours.  Children attending Before School Care, or Summer Camp programs must be signed into the Center by the person responsible for them.   For the After School Care program, we work with each elementary school to have Kids After Hours children dismissed from school first, so we are able to take accurate attendance immediately before general dismissal.  This helps us identify children not in the proper place before any school buses pull away from a school. 

Variety of Activities

Whether its Before and After School Care of Summer Camps, we make sure we provide a wide variety of things for kids to do at our program Centers.  From activities like homework time, arts and crafts, computer lab, team sports (even leagues), clubs, and board games, kids have the opportunity to try different things or focus on the ones they already enjoy.
At each of our program Centers, members of our staff accompany the children everywhere- hallways, restrooms, classrooms, and outside.  Plus, we use a walki-talkie system to ensure open communication between staff members monitoring children in multiple locations.  We also have special roll call, head count, and bus-check procedures for when our activities take us away from a Center.  When it comes time to go home, only those on a child's emergency form are able to sign a child out and take them home- no exceptions.  Sorry grandma, even you need to be on the form.
Kids After Hours Main Office   2122 University Blvd. West   Silver Spring MD. 20902
                                  Main Office 301-933-6888   Fax: 301-933-6520