Coordinator

What is my favorite thing about being a coordinator?

I have a passion for helping people. In my job, I get to partner with families to help them remove any barriers to learning for their child. Life can be hard and there are many situations that can keep a child from being their very best and having the best elementary years experience. It is my mission, to make these years, the best time possible. I also love to support student development through bringing in programs that help support their development academically and also social and emotional. I know it is not always easy asking for help so I stress that the goal and priority will always be the children and the whole reason for this center and my being here is them. There will never be rejection or judgment, and they will never be made to feel they are a burden or nuisance. We are here to help and support!

What do you wish people knew about FRYSC?

The FRYSC program and coordinators are very well known for helping with a clean change of clothes or needed school supplies at the beginning of the year, but we can and do offer so much more.

I wish people would expect and seek services and help from our centers the same way everyone expects teachers to teach. Services such as securing food for our families who may be going through an unexpected dilemma or connecting families to after-school childcare programs or opportunities of spending time together as a family during family night events.

I truly believe what Cesar Chavez, an American labor leader, community organizer, and Latino American civil rights activist said to be true, “We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”