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VELOPMENT CENTER East Bliss Child Development Center room Lita Puente de La Vega, a Child Youth Program Assistant at Milam CDC, feeds a bottle to a child.
Centers (CDC). The CYS division has 482 employees total, 350-380 are staffed with the CDC. Let’s take a look “Behind the Scenes” at FMWR CDCs where children begin their education at an early age. Most incoming parents would probably think a CDC is
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Shirley Francine, a CYPA at Milam CDC, changes a diaper for a child.
just another day care for their children to stay, while they go to work. However, our CDCs provide a highly certified staff to help with the development of children’s education. Currently all CDCs are accredited with the National Association for the Education of Young Children. “Parents may not recognize, we don’t consider
ourselves — in any division — child care. We are child development, we are not just there babysitting the children. We are actually educating and developing in the whole child,” said Ann Ogle, administrator of the CDC program. Child Youth Program Assistants (CYPA) help sixweek-old children with their cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills. CYPAs are constantly engaging with the children ensuring they develop both their
social and physical skills. They encourage mobility by placing a toy or object at a certain distance to initiate them to move closer to the object. The CDCs focus on developing the children’s education as they grow. All CDC facilities are equipped with a full service kitchen that has Nutritionist, Danny Nolasco, overlooking every meal preparation that is distributed to the children. Some of the foods are
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