The LA’s BEST After School Arts Program (ASAP) continuously seeks professional visual and performing artists, industry and studio executives, craftsmen, venue managers and others to support the ASAP program by underwriting 10-week residencies for two groups of 20 students per site; by volunteering their time, talent, access and other resources to enhance or showcase student achievement; by mentoring talented students; by arranging and participating in field trips to theatre performances, museums and other art venues; by assisting artists during classes; and by otherwise helping ASAP cultivate the next generation of visual and performance artists. To date, more than 28,660 LA’s BEST students have participated in at least one ASAP activity. Our goal is to enable all LA’s BEST children to participate in at least one ASAP 10-week residency.

The “LA’s BEST After School Arts Program (ASAP) Exploratory Program Evaluation” is one of the major studies of arts education within an enrolled K-5 after school program (August 2006). The study’s author, UCLA’s Dr. James Catterall, one of the pre-eminent evaluators of arts programs in the U.S. and a lead researcher in the landmark Critical Links study, states, "the ten-week program brings high quality and well organized arts teaching to children, encourages many to move toward active engagement, and provides them with new skills."