As of today, July 1, 2015, we will no longer offer Organizational Memberships. Not to worry...If you renewed your organizational membership this past year, we will continue to honor all benefits for your organization until your expiration date. Going forward we now have one membership option - $50.00 per person....

Soft Skills.  You've heard the phrase, but turning it into something meaningful and straightforward, something that impacts your day-to-day interactions with children, is another matter. Soft skills, sometimes called emotional intelligence or social-emotional learning, is a catch-all phrase for the kinds of non-academic skills that are linked to success in...

A Framework for Understanding What Kids Need to Succeed As Adults A new report released yesterday brings together decades of research from many fields to show that children need more than academic knowledge alone to succeed in life. Foundations for Young Adult Success: A Developmental Framework names seven key factors to life success, shows...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning In many child drownings, adults are nearby but have no idea the victim is dying. Here’s what to look for from Slate.com: http://slate.me/Zqm3k9 The two minutes you spend reading this could save a life! (more…)

Enriching Summer Programs Mean Success for All Children: How to Close the Achievement Gap   Did you know that children who don’t have an enriching summer environment can lose up to 1/3 of what they learned over the past school year?  Most of the children who experience this “Summer Slide”...

​One-day Volunteer Opportunity, with a Hawaiian theme! The Connecticut State Department of Education is currently looking for a few good grant readers to help them evaluate grant proposals for after school programs. This is an unpaid, one-day volunteer commitment on June 30, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Stanley Black and Decker University Conference...

A celebration of after school programs featuring Imagine Dragons' "Top of the World". This video premiered at the 2015 National After-School Summit hosted at USC through the USC Schwarzenegger Institute. https://youtu.be/KxWiNczm1ik

NAA Wants to Award You with a $50 Gift Card NAA, the leading national organization dedicated to the practice of afterschool wants to learn more about the capacity of the afterschool field to affect social and emotional learning (SEL). Please complete the quick survey below to help us in our...

The deadline to vote for the 2015 NAA Board of Directors is quickly approaching. Voting closes Friday June 12th! With nine candidates running, your vote matters Connecticut! Take a few minutes today and vote for Tracey Lay. Having worked in the field for over 25 years and serving on multiple...