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DODD HONORS 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF NAA CONFERENCE
Sen.Chris Dodd (D-CT) today congratulated members of NAA for their twenty years of dedication to creating safe and engaging afterschool environments for America's children.
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We are pleased to announce that new products have been added to the Afterschool Investments website:
The Afterschool Investments project, a Child Care Bureau-supported initiative, provides technical assistance to Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) grantees and other state and local leaders to support afterschool efforts. The Finance Project manages the Afterschool Investments project and has developed the following new resources:
- Using Quality Rating Systems to Promote Quality
in
Afterschool Programs
- School-Age Children in Regulated Family Child
Care Settings
- Building Professional Development Systems for
the Afterschool Field
- State Child Care Subsidy Administration Policies
for School-Age Care
Using Quality Rating Systems to Promote
Quality in Afterschool Programs
Executive
Summary (pdf)
Most tiered quality ratings systems were designed with early care providers in
mind, but are readily adaptable to providers that care for school-age children.
For those roviders who only serve school-age children, adapting the ratings systems
is more challenging. This brief outlines issues in adapting tiered quality ratings
for those caring for school-age children; offers suggestions for adaptations;
and provides examples of innovative solutions that states are proposing. This
publication is available at: nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool/qrs_afterschool.pdf
School-Age
Children in Regulated Family Child Care Settings
This publication explores the role of licensed family child care
providers in caring for school-age children. It outlines steps that
states can take to better
support these providers in serving school-age or mixed-age groups and addresses
information gaps in the field where further research is needed. This publication
is available at: nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool/family_childcare.pdf
Building Professional Development Systems for the Afterschool Field
This publication provides a snapshot of state and local approaches to building professional development systems for school-age care professionals, highlighting the shared challenges these systems face and the common components of sustainable professional development systems. This brief is available at:
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State Child Care Subsidy Administration Policies for School-Age Care
This strategy brief examines subsidy administration policies and practices with regard to how they promote access to care for school-age children. It explores how states establish provider reimbursement rates for school-age care, determine co-payments for families with children in school, and develop strategies to facilitate the transitions between part-time care during the school year and full-time care during school and summer breaks. This brief is available at: nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool/subsidy_policies.pdf
For more information about the project, contact The Afterschool Investments Project at (202) 587-1000 Email: afterschool@financeproject.org; or on the web at nccic.acf.hhs.gov/afterschool/.
Historic Afterschool Funding Increase Approved by Congress and the President
From the Afterschool Alliance
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Extended Day: Threat to the Future of Afterschool or Opportunity to Grow the Field?
You are invited to join an action dialogue on December 6, 2007
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New Resources from the Afterschool Investments Project
Click here to view the latest resources
4-H Officially Launches Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) Initiative
On October 11, 4-H hosted its largest webcast ever to highlight the SET mission mandate. Currently, 4-H SET projects reach more than 5.9 million youth in urban, suburban and rural communities across America. In order to address our nation's challenge, 4-H is committed to involving 1 million new young people in SET projects over the next five years.
Archive of the webcast
More information about the SET Initiative
An Ounce of Prevention A social program that works. Where's the funding?
One of the strangest things about social policy in this country is that we know what works and yet don't do more of it.
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Mayor Bloomberg Announces Expansion of out-of-school time system at 37th Annual Conference of the Association of new York State Youth Bureaus
OST System Adds More Than 100 New Programs That Will Provide an Additional 14,000 Children Throughout the Five Boroughs With Quality Afterschool Programs
Press release [pdf]
Mayor Villaraigosa Announces LA’s BEST Students Less Likely to Commit Juvenile Crime
Mayor Villaraigosa, Chief Bratton unveil results of UCLA study showing students of after-school enrichment program are 30 percent less likely to commit a crime.
Press release [doc], Executive summary [pdf], Full report [pdf].
Partnership with Collaborative Communications
NAA is proud to announce a partnership with Collaborative Communications to help develop the content and themes for our 20th Anniversary Conference.
Collaborative Communications Group is a strategic consulting firm devoted to developing collaborative solutions to education, workforce and community challenges.
Legislative Update
Congress is in its extended August recess and will return after Labor Day facing a daunting agenda.
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NAA Strategic Plan Update
During recent weeks we have begun a strategic planning process that will take us through then end of 2007 and present us with a blueprint for the future of the Association.
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New Conference Management for 2008
Conventures, Inc., New England's largest integrated marketing, communications, and special event production company, has been hired to plan and manage the National AfterSchool Association's (NAA) 20th annual conference.
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NAA Strategic Plan to Begin this Summer
NAA has received a grant from the Picower Foundation to support the development of a strategic plan for the organization...
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Staffing Changes at NAA
Peter Howe resigned as Chief Operating Officer with the National AfterSchool Association on May 31, 2007. He has decided to return to his professional roots...
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New NDYD Journal Now Available
NAA's special edition of New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, Research, titled Exceptional Learning Experiences for Early Adolescents: Where High Quality Programs Meet Basic Youth Needs, is now available to purchase.
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Call for Afterschool Evaluations for Upcoming Publication- DEADLIN
AYPF is still collecting research studies, reports, and, evaluations of effective and innovative afterschool and other out-of-school time (OST) programs that predominantly serve older (middle through high school) youth who are underserved by the education system. These studies will be used in a compendium we are developing that will showcase effective programs and provide policy recommendations for enhancing afterschool programming quality.
For more information, click here (.pdf)
Summer/Fall Issue of ASR
NAA is now accepting papers for the Summer/Fall issue of The AfterSchool Review. Read more
Naa Needs Your Input
Here's why: As previously announced, NAA has been awarded a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to support the development of a system that will help afterschool practitioners identify and select high quality trainers.
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NAA and NAESP Collaborate on Principals' Summer Institute
The National AfterSchool Association is partnering with the National Association of Elementary School Principals to develop and present the AfterSchool Strand at the NAESP Principals' Summer Leadership Institute.
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New NDYD Journal Now Available
NAA's special edition of New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, Research, titled Exceptional Learning Experiences for Early Adolescents: Where High Quality Programs Meet Basic Youth Needs, is now available to purchase. The cost is $10 for NAA members and $12 for nonmembers.
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News From The Hill
Congress came back from its spring recess with two major spending measures to complete. The Emergency Supplemental to provide funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is controversial because both the House and Senate versions include measures related to withdrawing troops from Iraq.
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Education is a Human Right
Learn how you can participate in Global Education Action Week, April 23-29, 2007, by clicking www.campaignforeducationusa.org.
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Program Ideas that Really Add up
Looking for ways to creatively infuse math activities into your afterschool programming? Click on the Mixing in Math (MiM) website .
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NAA Hosts the Largest Gathering of AfterSchool Professionals
The 19th Annual NAA Conference Soars to New Heights.
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CS Mott Foundation Awards Grant to the National AfterSchool Association
The National AfterSchool Association has been awarded a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to support the development of a system that will help afterschool practitioners identify and select high quality trainers.
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Panel Favors Extended View of Learning
The nation needs to rethink its assumptions and policies on when, where, and how children learn, contends a report issued last week by the Time, Learning and Afterschool Task Force, a national panel, financed by the Flint, Mich.-based Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
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Putting Youth Work on the Map
Building a strong, stable and supported youth workforce that is committed to the empowerment and well-being of youth is the goal of the recently formed Next Generation Youth Work Coalition, co-chaired by Pam Garza from the National Collaboration for Youth, Karen Pittman from the Forum for Youth Investment, and Deborah Craig from YouthNet of Greater Kansas City.
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NAA's Contribution
Over the past year, two comprehensive studies of youth workers were coordinated by the Next Generation Youth Work Coalition. Read more
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