South of Market Child Care Press Releases

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• The Independent, Tuesday April 18, 2000
  Bleak salary picture for child-care workers, and a new call for City Hall's help
  By Jean Choung
  Child-care workers need to be adequately compensated for performing a service that is greatly needed in the city.
  

• San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, April 12, 2000
  Investing in Child Care Benefits Us All
  By Deborah Alvarez-Rodrigues
  High quality programs support children’s higher-level thinking, numeracy, early literacy, physical and emotional development, creative thinking and social skills, while poor quality programs can result in developmental delays, poor school readiness, an inability to form relationships and emotional problems.

Mayor Willie Brown visits the centers.

• The Independent, July 20, 1999
  Supes push for salary subsidies in child-care field
  by Edith Alderette
  SF CARES would provide stipends and grants to day-care workers, to encourage them to stay in the field and promote advancement of their education in early-childhood development.
  
  

• Manila Mail, Nov.27-Dec.03, 1996
  SF seminars teach parents to be more competent in dealing with children
  By Jo Calderon Giner
  Seminars on competent parenting sponsored by the Pilipino Advisory Committee for Education and Support (PACES)
  
  

• San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Newsletter, Summer 1996
  Raising the Roof for Kids
  The construction on a one-of-a-kind urban project -- a $56 million Children's Center in the heart of the Downtown.
  

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