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On Our Cover: Irene Chan, Supervisor - Wu Yee Children's Services, San Francisco, California

September/October 1999
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"Jo sun" ("Good morning"). "Niay ho ma?" ("How are you?") Parents leave with a wave; children (ages three to five) sit down to breakfast or go off to paint or read, build with blocks, or spend some time in dramatic play. The air is filled with conversation - most of the words are Chinese, but their passages are in English as well. This is how the day begins at Wu Yee Lok Yuen Child Development Center in the heart of Chinatown in San Francisco.

Wu Yee, meaning "protecting and caring for children," is a non-profit community organization established in 1977 to provide services to children and their families in San Francisco. Wu Yee's main components are four child care facilities serving 140 children (Lok Yuen, Generations, and Golden Gate 1 and 2); Family Center, providing assistance in finding child care and child and family services; the Alternative Payments Department, which assists over 330 families with subsidized child care; and the Early Head Start Program, which provides education, health, mental health, nutrition, and social services to pregnant women and children zero to three years old (including children with disabilities) and their families.

Supervisor Irene Chan oversees both the Lok Yuen and Generations centers. Language ...

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