Our Publications

The National AfterSchool Association offers several publications and products for sale at member and non-member prices. Publications include The NAA Standards For Quality School-Age Care, Impact Quality kits, and Bringing Yourself to Work, A Guide to Successful Staff Development in After-School Programs. To see a complete list of our publications and products, launch the NAA order form.

AfterSchool Review
NAA publishes a journal, AfterSchool Review, for its members. The publication focuses on up-to-date research, theory, resources, effective school-age practices, and public policy and provides NAA members and affiliated organizations with a forum for discussion on issues and ideas in the afterschool and out-of-school time field.

New Directions for Youth Development for Conference Participants
NAA offered 2006 conference participants a complimentary copy of the popular youth development journal titled New Directions for Youth Development. The issue is now available for $10 (for members) and $12 (for nonmembers). The issues normally sell for $29 each. To purchase a copy of the issue, complete the NAA order form.

In 2005, NAA entered into an agreement with Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, to sponsor an annual issue of New Directions for Youth Development. Each annual sponsored issue will be published in time for the NAA conference and available for free to conference participants.

New Directions for Youth Development is a journal dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions. The result is a unique resource presenting thoughtful, multi-faceted approaches to helping our youth develop into responsible, stable, well-rounded citizens.

The first NAA-sponsored issue is entitled Doing the Right Thing: Ethical Development Across Diverse Environments, edited by Dale Borman Fink. The issue recognizes the critical importance in guiding young people toward mature decision making in the arena of ethics and explores ways in which that guidance can take shape. Through surveys, observation, and interviews, chapter authors have designed activities geared to reshape the way youngsters and others think about right and wrong.


Studies of teen-oriented chat-room scripts and other online communities highlight the growing trend of adolescents who seem to dwell more online than in their own neighborhoods. Traditional activities such as sports, out-of-class time, political and community engagement are also examined as sources of social and emotional development.

NAA will announce the topic of the next issue in July 2006.