NAA23 OST Thriving Workforce Summit

We invite you to join us for the OST Stakeholder Summit: Building and Supporting a Thriving Workforce. In partnership with state affiliates, the National Afterschool Association has fostered positive youth outcomes by supporting, developing, and advocating for afterschool professionals and leaders for over thirty years. Staff recruitment and retention challenges remain the most significant barrier in the out-of-school time field. As the professional association supporting out-of-school time professionals, it is clear that it is time to focus attention on the issue of job quality in our sector. Since launching our Thriving Workforce initiative, we have explored and defined OST job quality and are now ready to move from attention to action in building a future that results in higher quality jobs for OST professionals, workforce stability and program quality that benefit youth, families, and communities.