Yuk Yau's summer program, which lasts between 6 and 10 hours a day, includes field trips and special sports events such as a baseball league and weekly swimming lessons. Each preschool group of 24 children is staffed by one teacher and two assistants. All other groupings consist of one teacher and one aide for every 28 students. In addition, a joint study team of Lincoln and Yuk Yau staff meets monthly to promote formal program coordination. Because Yuk Yau is open so many hours each day and teachers work seven-hour shifts, the site administrator schedules morning and afternoon teachers to overlap at least one hour, which provides smooth transitions for students who may be there both before and after school.
Assistants work split shifts, covering both morning and afternoon hours.
Parent and community involvement. Because the program is designed to provide child care, parents of Yuk Yau participants must either be working or be in a job-oriented training program. These parents typically see education as their children's path to success and a job, and Yuk Yau as a step in the right direction. They develop relationships with center staff in part because they must sign their children in and out daily, which often leads to conversations about the children and their activities. They actively support the Center's focus on English language acquisition and volunteer whenever their schedules permit.