Our staff who work at the Nevada Afterschool Network share the vision and values of our community.

The Nevada Afterschool Network is here to provide outreach and advocacy for parents, children, and out-of-school program providers. We want to be the best Network we can be, so we rely on your feedback and participation to ensure the Network achieves its goals.

 Meet two of our Program Leads, Alejandra from Las Vegas, and Kadie working from Fallon!

NAN is excited to announce the recipients of the Building Opportunities in Out-Of-School Time (BOOST) Grant. The goal of the BOOST Grant Program is to increase the availability of high-quality Out-Of-School Time (OST) programs, promoting positive growth and development for all K-12 youth. Congratulations to all the awardees! 🎉

Are you and your team looking for new and innovative ways to raise student engagement in your OST Program? Join our conversation with Annette Phillips on how free choice, problem- solving, and student-driven learning create purposeful collaboration in your programs!

Register for September 7th at 11:30am.

Achieving equity in education—that is, ensuring every student has the resources and tools they need to succeed—has become a key issue for the nation’s schools. Equity doesn’t apply just to classroom learning, however; it matters in afterschool, summer, and other out-of school-time (OST) programs, too. Yet while research on equity in the OST sector in general is growing, equity in OST programs provided by school systems has received less attention from researchers.

 You’ve likely seen it by now: “Loneliness is the new smoking.” The U.S. Surgeon General recently published an advisory Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, and one of the most shocking data points from the report is that social isolation is as detrimental to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

That, coupled with the finding that today’s young people aged 15-24 have 70% less social interaction with their friends than young people did two decades ago has youth development professionals thinking hard about the ways that we build social connection and combat loneliness among youth.