“I know that my baby’s in a really good environment,” Sherie Williams said of Shawn, who is in the “dragonfly” class at Saint Vincent’s. “I leave him in go…
Sherie Williams was working a job she loved and approaching the home stretch of parenthood, with two pre-teens and a 19-year-old, when her life was turned completely upside down.
For the past 111 years, Saint Vincent’s has been serving Alameda County parents who can’t afford the exorbitant cost of private childcare. The center’s 133 kids ages 2 to 6 spend their days playing, listening to story time, napping and learning numbers and letters — but they also get a nutritious breakfast and lunch each day, as well as screenings by nursing students from Samuel Merritt University to check for health problems.
Saint Vincent’s hopes to have a total of 200 kids enrolled within the next few months, and is working on hiring more teachers — despite a nationwide shortage — to make that happen. There are more than 100 kids on the center’s waitlist. Preschool students have lunch in the dining room at Saint Vincent’s Day Home on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, in Oakland, Calif. The home was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1911 and provides educational classes, child care and other services for low-income families. “Without the gift cards, Shawn, the girls and my kids would have a very dim Christmas,” she said. “I would not have been able to provide as many smiles as I’ve been able to.
So when history repeated itself and Williams found herself raising her nieces and nephew, she returned to the place that had given her so many happy childhood memories.
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