Quality Advisor Training


The NIOST Quality Advisor Training prepares participants to provide technical assistance to programs working on program improvements. We recommend that Quality Advisor training participants have extensive experience (usually three years or more) as a school-age care practitioner, staff supervisor and/or consultant.

Goals of Training:

  • Learn to build a mentoring relationship with each program.
  • Learn to support programs at all developmental stages.
  • Learn to use observations to identify areas for program support.
  • Build confidence and skills as a Quality Advisor through a hands on learning experience.

Targeted Audience:
Programs working on program improvements.

Training Content:

  • Two days of training on content areas identified in the training goals above.
  • In addition, there is a review on the ASQ process, NAA Standards, and NAA Program Improvement and Accreditation System.
  • Includes a supervised site visit to a local program for each group of approximately five participants to practice observation skills and tool use. Plus a facilitator led debriefing session that begins the practice of learning how to implement technical assistance.
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All of our trainings, except for our annual Summer Seminar, are conducted in a location of your choice. Clients arrange a local training event with NIOST that typically draws 20-40 participants. Two NIOST Training Associates plan and deliver the training, while a local sponsor, such as a Resource and Referral Agency, State Government Agency, City Agency, or State or Local Provider Association, coordinates the publicity and logistics. This model allows for maximum local participation. If a client has a small number of potential participants, it may make fiscal sense to send the group to the annual Summer Seminars series in Boston.

Opportunities for individual participants to attend NIOST trainings include our annual Summer Seminar series held in July in Boston. NIOST has been hosting its annual Seminars since 1999. The goal of our Summer Seminars is to provide training for after-school professionals from all over the country which can be attended as individuals. In addition, this series of events allows participants to connect with other professionals outside of their community, and thus create a potential national network among the field.