Wu Yee Children s Services Revenue and Competitors

Wu Yee Children's Services is a non-profit child and family services agency. Established in 1977, Wu Yee was the first child development and family services organization in San Francisco founded by Chinese and it is the oldest provider of parent support in San Francisco's Chinatown. Wu Yee Children's Services began with two California Department of Education, Child Development Division contracts. One contract provided subsidies for low-income families to receive services at our child development center program. The other contract allowed us to provide support for parents and technical assistance to the child development field in San Francisco. Since then, Wu Yee has continued supporting the improvement of child development services for San Francisco families through our child care Resource and Referral Program. Concurrently, Wu Yee has expanded and improved the quality of our child development program using a family-centered approach. During the first decade of services, Wu Yee operated a single child development center. We used this developmental period to experiment with the different approaches to see what would best serve the children in our program. Presently, we use a bilingual constructivist approach in our curriculum. This approach was implemented agency-wide through our child care staff in-service training using the Creative Curriculum Program. During the late 1980's, we were presented with many opportunities to increase the number of child development centers we operated. Wu Yee partnered with On Lok Senior Health Center to create the Generations Child Development Program. This is now a nationally known intergenerational program for preschoolers and the elderly who live in the building that houses the Generations Child Development Program. We are proud that our partnership remains strong today. We opened our third site in the Tenderloin after another organization was no longer able to run the child development center. The community asked Wu Yee to save the services, including the Home-Based Program for families. We now operate two child development centers in the Tenderloin, one of which serves infants and preschoolers of families with diverse backgrounds. In the late 1990's, Wu Yee opened two more new infant / toddler care centers in Chinatown / North Beach and Visitacion Valley to address the severe shortage of licensed infant / toddler care in San Francisco. Located in the heart of Chinatown, Joy Lok Family Resource Center began operations in fall of 2003. Joy Lok is a hub of parent services and activities including educational programs, social events, and individualized support services. All program content and activities in Joy Lok is decided by the Parent Advisory Council or PAC. The PAC is a group of caregivers including mothers, fathers, and grandparents who direct what kind of topics will be covered in Joy Lok educational events with the aim to promote parent education, family self-sufficiency, and leadership. Our most recent project is the Preschool for All - Provider Enrollment Agency program ( PFA) which is a city-wide initiative led by San Francisco First 5. The program was launched in fall of 2004 to provide universal access to half-day preschool programs to all San Francisco four-year-olds over the next five years. It will become a city-wide project by 2009.