New Mexico Out-of-School Time Network

What is the NM Out-of-School Time Network (NMOSTN)?

The New Mexico Out-of-School Time Network is a project of the New Mexico Forum for Youth in Community (the Forum) focused on:

• Building a diverse statewide afterschool network.
• Garnering the resources necessary to support NM out-of-school time opportunities for school-age children.
• Assessing breadth and depth of out-of-school time programming in NM and tying to varied program supports.
• Influencing NM State policy and legislation as defined by out-of-school time network stakeholders from across NM.
• Identifying out-of-school time indicators of well-being for NM children and youth connected to Children's Cabinet outcomes.
• Identifying additional partners with a role to play.
• Being present to discuss afterschool challenges and promising/best practices.
• Contributing to the "story" of why afterschool may not be fully accessible to all NM children and youth.
• Contributing to an afterschool data development agenda.

GOALS:

• Create a sustainable structure of Statewide, regional and local partnerships, particularly community-based partnerships, focused on supporting policy development at all levels.

• Support the development and growth of statewide policies that will secure the resources that are needed to sustain new and existing Afterschool programs.

• Support statewide systems to ensure programs are of high quality.

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Want to know more about our networks?  Click on the links here to find out descriptive information about our networks, including infrastructure, capacity-building and advocacy efforts.

For more information on the New Mexico Out-of-School Time Network,  please contact:

Anna Nelson, LISW, Executive Director
anelson@nmforumforyouth.org
(505) 821-3574
(505) 242-2776 (FAX)