Child care
Only 1 in 7 childcare centers or family daycare providers (FDCs) is rated as high-quality.(1)

Parents of very young children usually pay more for childcare, and may take up to 6 months to find suitable care.(2)

Research has shown that childcare providers participating in a “high or moderate-intensity” support group are likely to improve the quality of childcare they provide.(3)

Support Services for Latinos
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports state that 20% of all people reporting new HIV infections are Latino.(4)

New York City is the city most affected by AIDS, with 122,062 reported cases by June 2001.(5)

The percentage of Latinas infected through heterosexual transmission has increased by 30% in the last decade, and the rate of reported AIDS cases among Latinas is 7.5 times higher than that of white women.(6)

Immigrant Hispanic women are at high risk for contracting HIV as they often do not have access to accurate information about transmission of the disease.(6)

79% of the Latino immigrants surveyed through our Van Campaign program, do not have health insurance.

Nearly half (46%) of the people surveyed in our Van Campaign program through June 2002 had only an elementary-school educational level.

79% of the Latino immigrants contacted through our Van Campaign program have a weekly income of less than $300 per week, despite the fact that half had children to support.

Youth Services
The Latino dropout rate is approximately 28%. That's more than double that of African Americans (13%) and approximately 4 times more than whites (7%). The dropout rate for Hispanics born outside the U.S. is an astonishing 44%.(7)

Studies show that having adult supervision after school cuts the risk that middle school students will smoke, drink, or abuse drugs by 50%.(8)

Attendance at our after-school programs consistently exceeds 80%.

In a recent study, only 25% of Hispanic children visited a library with their families in the past month, while 39% of their white and 35% of their African American counterparts had done so.(9)

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(1) Whitebook, Marcy, Laura Sakai, and Carollee Howes. NAEYC Accreditation as a Strategy for Improving Child Care Quality. National Center for Early Childhood Work Force, 1997, p.1
(2) Giannarelli, et al., p.4; The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. Assessment of Child Care Needs of Latino Families and Latino Day Care Providers. Aug 98, p.5.
(3) Whitebook, Marcy, Laura Sakai, and Carollee Howes. NAEYC Accreditation as a Strategy for Improving Child Care Quality. National Center for Early Childhood Work Force, 1997, p. 14
(4) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Protecting the Health of Latino Communities:Combating HIV/AIDS. National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Jul 00, p.1.
(5) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website: www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats.htm, 5/31/02.
(6) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, www.cdc.gov, 5/31/02.
(7) National Center for Educational Statistics: "Status and Trends in the Education of Hispanics." NCES http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003008.pdf
(8) Newman, Sanford A., et al. America’s After-School Choice: The Prime Time for Juvenile Crime, or Youth Enrichment and Achievement. Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, 2000, p. 12.
(9) National Center for Education Statistics. The Condition of Education 2000. http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000062, 11/20/02.