NEW MEXICO OUT-OF SCHOOL

Communication: nmost engaged ost providers, 21st cclc centers, community schools, leas and partners through newsletters, our website, listening sessions and events leading to quality ost programming, increased connection and sharing best practices and lessons learned. Our monthly stem newsletter, information campaigns, website and social media is our main strategy to communicate with the larger network of 1800 subscribers. Youth voice and representation is included in all our events, advocacy days, and via all our communications. Overall, the interest in ost and the potential impact on students' wellbeing and academic success is growing at a rapid pace and is now a conversation at the school, district, and state levels. Our staff are members of the albuquerque mayor's kids cabinet, the governor's juvenile justice board, and the community schools council.

Data, mapping and meals after 3 pm: nmost is utilizing data and mapping to strategically plan, advocate, and create transformational change for youth from all backgrounds in new mexico. Nmost creates and update ost story maps to document baseline and expansion of 21st cclc programs and hb2 (state) funded program sites as well as statewide programs providers like boys and girls club, ymca and 4h. The mapping database and infographics with real- time data overlays showcase state and federally funded program sites against a backdrop of indicators. Through our melas after 3 pm initiatives and partnerships with statewide organizations, nmost has expanded food access through ost programs by increasing the number of sites participating in the child and adult food care program (cacfp).