February 2024

Local News and Program Updates

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Have you been thinking about applying for your afterschool credential? Now is the time!

If you participate in the Afterschool Credential Challenge with ACROSS NH, you can earn your credential and receive support from ACROSS NH! Download the flyer and application forms below to begin the challenge! Questions? Email Cathy Hazelton

Application Form

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Follow the challenge requirements AND earn your credential before March 1, 2024 and you will be entered to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card from ACROSS NH!

Forbes Article on the Importance of OST!

“Limited Access, Affordability Lead National Push For ‘Out of School Time’ Programs” by Kate Cassandra.

As K-12 schools in the United States enjoy Winter Break, children are home for a week or two of relaxation and family time. Some students may enjoy reading, travel, museum visits, or other forms of extracurricular learning. Likely, visiting family members will ask students about their academics, and conversations may also turn to hobbies and activities beyond school.

Millions of children in the U.S. will be able to share what they are learning and doing in their Out of School Time programs. Unfortunately, many more could talk about what they wish they were doing, if they had access to quality OST opportunities.

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Training and Professional Development

Build skills. Build confidence. Build your career.

What's the next step in your career?

WorkReadyNH is a practical, tuition-FREE professional development program that builds the skills that help employees succeed in the workforce, and that NH employers highly desire:

Soft Skills including effective communication, team building, problem

solving and decision making

Essential Skills of adequate levels of reading, math and locating

information

Participate in a blend of live, interactive class and independent work. Learn and have fun in this simulated workplace setting to enhance and practice the powerful Soft Skills that employers want most.

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Info Sessions

NAA24 Convention

Find Your All at NAA24 Convention. Find your people in a place where being authentic, brave, and curious is encouraged and supported! This is THE event that OST professionals come to for human connections, inspired learning, and meaningful recognition. Come Be You, Be Here and Belong!

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Grants and Funding

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Tools and Resources

Implement an Affordable Learning Solutions Program at Your Institution!

SkillsCommons is a repository containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.

The cost of course materials can often exceed the cost of tuition for those courses. SkillsCommons Affordable Learning Solutions websites can help faculty and students find free e-textbooks and online course materials that can be adopted and revised to enable institutions to make education more affordable for their students.

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NHAN is asking Out-Of-Schooltime providers to share your stories with us! We would love to hear about what is happening with you!

Send us story spotlights, successes, pictures or anything else you would like to see on our website!

Please send to your stories to: nhan@sersec.net

Mizzen Education

More than a platform, Mizzen is a powerful community of people who care deeply about creating high-quality learning experiences for young people everywhere.

Your FREE all-in-one afterschool tool!

Content. From BOKS (Now, “Active Kids”), The Nature Conservancy, ArtsConnection, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, the Pulitzer Center, NASA, Jazz at Lincoln Center, PowerUp Fitness, VentureLab—and so many more!

Community. More places, spaces, and ways to gather as a vibrant community of champions for youth that creates, innovates, celebrates, and supports one another.

Experiences. More popup events and community conversations, live streams, design sprints, concerts, unconferences — and bring-your-whole-self experiences that pass the mic, give practitioners and youth the stage, spark curiosity, and cultivate joy.

“Mizzen has been a game-changer for the field. You should join the Mizzen community because it is a platform that offers free out-of-school time content that has been vetted by practitioners across the nation.” — Liliana G. Murphy, Executive Director, Florida Afterschool Network

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