Job Openings at South of Market Child Care Center

Child Development Teacher: We are hiring a fully qualified teacher with a Child Development Permit to work at our Clementina Child Development Center. The applicant should have prior experience working with young children in a multicultural program. Bilingual skills are a plus.

Substitutes: Substitute aide and teacher positions are available at both our sites including a three month substitute teacher position with benefits. The teacher position requires a minimum of 12 units of early childhood education.

To apply, please submit your resume, Attention: Judy Kriege, by one of the following:

• Fax it to 415-820-3501
• send it via e-mail
• mail it to: Clementina Child Development Center, 366 Clementina Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

	If you would like to find out more about our staff, please see our staff biography section.

To see the fast facts about our Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Programs, please visit our childcare summary page.

Volunteering at South of Market Child Care:

Volunteering can be a very rewarding experience for both the volunteers and the organization. At South of Market Child Care, volunteers come in all shapes and sizes and help with a variety of activities. Seniors, working people, neighbors from the community, and many others have found ways to touch the lives of the children who attend our Yerba Buena Gardens and Clementina Centers. Reading to the children, chaperoning on field trips, spending time in the classroom with children who need extra help, painting walls, serving on Parent or Board committees are a few of the many areas where we welcome assistance. Volunteers are needed for one-time projects as well as ongoing activities within the classrooms and the center. Please visit out Get Involved! section to see how you can help.

Legislative Issues:

Last year the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with the approval of Mayor Brown appropriated $1.15 million for the San Francisco CARES program. The initiative sponsored by Supervisor Mabel Teng was in response to the high turnover of child care providers and the inability of programs to find qualified teachers. Empty classrooms remain in new facilities and the high turnover seriously jeopardizes the care young children receive. In April, Wu Yee Children´s Services, the administrator of the San Francisco CARES program, sent out applications to all licensed child care facilities. Providers who have been employed in one program for a minimum of 1 year who have at least six units of early childhood education, could apply for stipends in the amount of $500 to $5,000 if they agreed to engage in ongoing professional development. It is expected that the number of applicants will far exceed the available stipends.

Child care advocates are currently attempting to obtain refunding of the SF CARES program. Supervisor Teng is asking for $1.5 million from the general fund with the expectation that there will be matching funding available from such sources as Proposition 10 (the tobacco tax initiative).

To express your opinion about this important measure contact Mayor Brown and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

California Legislation:

Assembly Bill 2160: Introduced by Assembly Members Cunneen and Mazzoni. This bill would allow state subsidized child care centers in high cost counties to apply for rate adjustments based on the regional market rate of the county (which is higher than the state average reimbursement rate). A priority for the funding would be to increase staff salaries. The bill would appropriate $4,800,000 from the general fund.

Assembly Bill 212: Introduced by Assemblywoman Dion Aroner. This bill would provide matching state funding to local programs that provide stipends to encourage the pursuit of professional preparation among those entering the child care and development fields. San Francisco would be eligible for these matching funds to expand the SF CARES program.

To express your opinion about this important legislation write to Governor Davis, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814.

For more information on California legislation, go to www.grassroots.com.

For More Information Contact: Wu Yee Children's Services at (415) 677-0100 ext.47, or the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families.

Please contact Judith Baker at (415) 978-3452 or by email for any additional information or questions. For maps and directions, please see our Contact Us section.