Consultation

NIOST consults to state, national and local organizations and agencies, school districts, and individual programs, and has played a lead role in a wide range initiatives across the country. Our emphasis is on using an interactive and collaborative approach to creating innovative and effective solutions to out-of-school time needs on a local, state, regional and national basis.
Each project employs and refines a multi-level, multi-faceted, collaborative approach, integrating research, evaluation and/or promising practices as part of efforts to build staff skills, improve program quality, and create stronger, sustainable afterschool systems.
We ofter consulting services in the areas of:
- Program evaluation and improvement
- Technical assistance and training
- Facilitation of community planning
- System building
Please contact us for more information.
NIOST's current and past consultation clients include:
- The AOL Time Warner Foundation
- WGBH Boston
- The Education Development Center (EDC)
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay
- The Bowne Foundation
- The Metlife Foundation
- The Greater New Orleans Out-of-School Time Initiative.
- New Jersey After 3
- New York Department of Youth and Community Development
- Montgomery County Collaboration Council
- Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
- United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
- School's Out Washington

