2025 50 State Afterschool Network Leaders Meeting: Full Schedule

2:00pm MDT

Support and Technical Assistance Office Hours

Sunday April 13, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm MDT

Puma ABC Meeting Room

Sunday April 13, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Puma ABC Meeting Room

10:45am MDT

Quality: Unified and Inclusive Quality Building Systems

Monday April 14, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm MDT

Puma ABC Meeting Room

Programs engaged in meaningful, ongoing quality systems produce better youth outcomes. Programs are often required to participate in multiple systems driven by multiple funding streams. Join us to explore how states can align, unify, and simplify quality systems to create more efficient and effective quality improvement.

21st CCLC
SACC
City-wide efforts
Funder driven efforts

Speakers

Kelly Frank

President & Owner, Social Legends

Monday April 14, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm MDT
Puma ABC Meeting Room

Sharing Sessions, Quality

1:30pm MDT

Quality: Building an Afterschool Workforce Pipeline to Meet Today’s Needs and Tomorrow’s Opportunities

Monday April 14, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT

Puma ABC Meeting Room

Programs are struggling to attract and retain workers to ensure high-quality programs that can serve the maximum number of youth. Join us to explore how we can create a career pathway including apprenticeships, credentials, and leadership development experiences to better staff our diverse programs.
Focus Topics

Apprenticeships/CTE dollars
Credentialing models
Leadership development
Alignment with NAA priorities/work

Speakers

Erin Busk

Consultant, Social Legends

Kelly Riding

Consultant, Social Legends

Monday April 14, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Puma ABC Meeting Room

Sharing Sessions, Quality

3:30pm MDT

Network Share: Continuous Improvement in School-Age Care

Monday April 14, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm MDT

Puma ABC Meeting Room

A discussion about the unique design needed to support continuous program/quality improvement for school-age care programs. Learn about Ignite's new i-SAC accreditation and continuous program improvement process. We modified our existing M3 CQI/CPI process to work for school-age care. How are you supporting the unique needs of this program type in your state?

Speakers

Devin Hanson

Program Specialist - School Age Care Accreditation, Ignite Afterschool (MN)

Monday April 14, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm MDT
Puma ABC Meeting Room

Network Share

4:15pm MDT

Network Share: STEM Partnerships – Creating an Engineering Mindset

Monday April 14, 2025 4:15pm - 4:45pm MDT

Puma ABC Meeting Room

Partnerships that support professionals, youth, and families to collaborate towards a shared goal and assist each other in understanding concepts through interaction.

Speakers

Regina Sidney-Brown

Delaware Afterschool Network

Monday April 14, 2025 4:15pm - 4:45pm MDT
Puma ABC Meeting Room

Network Share

5:00pm MDT

Network Share: Statewide Afterschool Networks and Community Schools Efforts

Monday April 14, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm MDT

Puma ABC Meeting Room

How can involvement in statewide community schools efforts build better partnerships and elevate afterschool priorities? Hear from two of the statewide afterschool networks that are also serving as the statewide community schools network about what's worked for them. Learn about community schools opportunities in your state, and discuss potential for your network's involvement.

Speakers

Ellie Mitchell

Maryland Out of School Time (MOST) Network

Monday April 14, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm MDT
Puma ABC Meeting Room

Network Share

11:10am MDT

Quality: Starting and Scaling Technical Assistance Offerings to Advance Continuous Quality Improvement

Tuesday April 15, 2025 11:10am - 12:40pm MDT

Puma ABC Meeting Room

Whether you are looking to start program quality supports, improve what you have or expand to serve more people and programs – join us to contribute to a marketplace of ideas and explore creative and effective approaches to helping programs improve the quality of their programs.