New funding for PFS

By Theresa Myers in Early Learning | Posted March 7, 2024

San Mateo, CA – Local community projects will receive a boost of federal support as U.S. Rep. Kevin Mullin secured $12,976,031 in Community Project Funding for California’s 15th District as part of the first package of long-awaited, bipartisan 2024 spending bills. This funding responds directly to some of the most pressing needs in the community including transportation improvements, increasing affordable child care spaces, expanding recreational opportunities across the district, and addressing storm water infrastructure. The…

Opinion: We Need Better Pathways for Becoming an Early Childhood Teacher

By Bryan Cohn in Early Learning, Thought Leadership | Posted August 17, 2023

Early childhood educator and PFS teaching aide Jay Lee, recently wrote an op-ed on EdSurge, a digital news and research magazine about education. Jay’s article, titled “We Need Better Pathways for Becoming an Early Childhood Teacher”, highlights the need for better ways to recruit and retain teachers such as increased compensation, easier pathways to certification, and combating staff shortages. Like many others interested in early childhood education, Lee struggles to overcome institutionalized barriers associated with…

Early Learning Program Updates: AR 22

By Theresa Myers in Annual Report, Early Learning | Posted November 23, 2022

INVESTING IN OUR TEACHERS In late 2021, California passed a bill to include a cost of living adjustment to early learning reimbursement rates per child, in an effort to address inequities between the standard reimbursement rate and the regional market rate ceiling. This change has allowed PFS to increase compensation in our Early Learning program, raising the PFS minimum wage to $23 for teachers. CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE PROGRAM PFS launched its first Early…

Midway Early Learning Center Campaign event

By Theresa Myers in | Posted September 30, 2022

Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022 Program: 10:00 a.m. Tours: 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Location: PFS Midway Early Learning Center 45 Midway Drive, Daly City Free Valet Parking Peninsula Family Service (PFS) will launch the Midway Early Learning Center Campaign on Thursday October 6, 2022 at 10am at 45 Midway Drive, Daly City. The Early Learning Center build is part of the Midway Village project in partnership with MidPen Housing and San Mateo County Housing…

Our Commitment to Support the Vulnerable Members of Our Community

By Theresa Myers in Philanthropy, Success Story, Uncategorized | Posted November 2, 2020

Early Learning Support Update Our Early Learning teachers and family engagement staff have been a lifeline to the families we support. In partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley, every Wednesday families pick up food boxes at our Midway Child Development Center in Daly City. Over 200 boxes of food are handed out each week by staff and volunteers. Our teachers prepare and deliver learning activity kits for the children, as well as…

Help Us Disrupt the Opportunity Gap

By Theresa Myers in Early Learning, Uncategorized | Posted October 30, 2019

As a professional in the field of Early Learning, it has always been clear to me that the earliest years of life are a period of exceptional development, a time of opportunity and vulnerability, dependent on primary relationships and the learning environment in which the child is growing. Brain research has evolved to reveal astonishing discoveries including knowledge of the exponential volume of neural growth that occurs from birth to 5 years of life. Recent…

Dream Playground Becomes Reality

By Theresa Myers in Early Learning, Philanthropy, Uncategorized | Posted September 4, 2019

The preschool at Peninsula Family Service (PFS) headquarters in San Mateo serves 32 children daily. The campus includes two classrooms and a playground to provide a nurturing, safe, and stimulating educational environment for children. The playground was run down by weather and heavy use, and old equipment was falling apart or had been discarded. The students and teachers desperately needed new playground equipment to enjoy and use every single day. Thanks to a grant from…

Child care providers push California to boost pay for early education teachers

By Theresa Myers in Early Learning | Posted August 12, 2019

Heather Cleary, CEO of Peninsula Family Service and one of our high-quality teachers, have been featured in an article, Child care providers push California to boost pay for early education teachers, written by Zaidee Stavely of EdSource. This article outlines the two different ways that California pays centers that serve low-income children with subsidized income. At Peninsula Family Service, we believe the funding is simply not enough to retain high-quality Early Learning teachers. “Our teachers…

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