About JCYC

JCYC Today Over the past four decades, JCYC has become one of San Francisco’s most successful youth organizations. While still committed to children and youth from the Japanese American community, JCYC has evolved and grown into an organization, which annually serves over 7,000 young people from all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds. Through a continuum of services, JCYC programs can support children and youth from the time they start pre- school until they are ready to move onto college. In addition to providing direct services, JCYC has also organized and continues to lead some of the largest and most successful youth collaborations in San Francisco.

Our Mission: JCYC’s mission is to cultivate and enrich the lives of children and youth from diverse, multi-cultural communities throughout San Francisco and beyond.

Our Vision: On the path to accomplishing their dreams, our children and youth will contribute to tomorrow’s generations, and be healthy and productive members of our community.

Our Values: Community We foster a collective desire and passion to support the healthy development of children and youth.

Diversity: We respect and embrace the differences that make all members of our society unique.

Integrity: We conduct ourselves in a manner that is worthy of the trust and confidence placed in us by the communities we serve.

Cooperation: We build strong partnerships to ensure we have the greatest impact on children and youth possible. Compassion We see in a child that which they cannot see in themselves.

Vision: Like a child, we look ahead with imagination and without limits.