What is NAA?
The National AfterSchool Association (NAA) is the only national membership organization representing all public, private, and community-based providers of after-school programs. With more than 6,000 members and 36 affiliated organizations, NAA promotes national standards of quality school-age care for children and youth and grants accreditation to programs meeting the standards. The organization’s mission is to build a profession that develops, supports, and promotes quality afterschool programs for children and youth.

NAA is currently headquartered in Boston and has a public policy liaison based in the nation’s capital. The organization will move to Washington, DC in March 2009.

Why attend NAA 2010?
NAA’s annual conference is the largest gathering of people who support and promote afterschool programming. Conference attendance will provide you with many opportunities to:

• Learn the latest developments and opportunities that are challenging this expanding field.
• Learn about successful program ideas from the people who make them work each day.
• Network with more than 3,000 of your colleagues from across the United States and abroad.
• Share proven best practices in the afterschool programming field and develop new ones.
• Focus on your professional development; challenge yourself to grow. Where are you in your career today? Where do you want to be tomorrow?