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70% of Summer Youth Employment Program participants in New York City stated that they would not have found summer employment without the program. (New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, 2009)
Sunnyside Community Services
Queens
Sunnyside Community Services (SCS) serves more than 9,000 children, youth, adults, and seniors in Western Queens each year. Their mission is to enrich the lives of residents by providing caring, quality services to meet their social, health, educational, and recreational needs and thereby strengthen this multicultural community.
Saving Child Care for 16,000 Children
The Emergency Coalition to Save Child Care was formed in February 2011.
As a leader of the Coalition, UNH mobilized the collective strength of
UNH member agencies including parents, executive directors, child care
directors, teachers, family child care providers, board members, family
workers, communications and development staff, cooks and pre-schoolers
themselves!
In response to strong public support for child care and the work of The Emergency Coalition to Save Child Care, the final budget agreement for FY 2011-12 restored $82 million. This funding, half of which is already at-risk in next year's budget saves much, but not all, of the early childhood capacity that was at risk in this budget as well as provide services for many school aged children.
UNH is proud to have led the efforts to restore child care for working families.
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UNH will continue to advocate for more funding in the future so that every New York City child can have access to critical early learning opportunities and their parents can keep their jobs.
See video from Keisha, a single mother working at Petco. She pays a weekly fee for child care at her neighborhood community center that is affordable because it is partially subsidized by City government dollars. Government budget cuts threatened to eliminate the funding that makes this program possible. What would Keisha have done without child care?
"I won’t be able to keep my job and then I won’t be able to take care of my children. Then I’d be forced to get on public assistance which is no good for me because I have a college education….I mean, at this point right now I’m under-employed but I’d rather be under-employed than be on public assistance."
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