<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/usag-yongsan/3521565142/" title="Yongsan CYSS renews commitment to excellence by usag.yongsan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3353/3521565142_bce7be5842_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" hspace="10" align="right" alt="Yongsan CYSS renews commitment to excellence" /></a><strong>YONGSAN GARRISON, Republic of Korea</strong> - Garrison officials met with more than 70 Child, Youth and School Services workers May 7 to unveil the details of a new new covenant designed to attract and maintain new youth workers.
"This was our opportunity to communicate directly with our great CYSS employees and let them know what we're doing," said USAG-Yongsan Commander Col. Dave Hall.
April 18, senior garrison leaders officially signed the CYSS Covenant at the Community Fun Fair.
"This builds on the promise we made in the Army Family Covenant," Hall said. "Honestly, I don't believe any other community in the Army is energizing CYSS programs like we're doing."
"CYS Services is heading in a different direction," Claudette Mohn, CYS Services coordinator said. "As the Garrison grows, the demand for a greater variety of CYS Services programs is growing. We are really trying to cater to meet the greater needs of the community."
As a sign of that increased emphasis on providing quality services, Garrison leaders and Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation presented signed covenants pledging their support for CYS Services programs.
"We are continuously improving quality of life for the USAG-Yongsan community," said U.S. Army Garrison-Yongsan Commander Col. Dave Hall. "Our Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation programs are top-notch."
One of those new programs is the new in-home family childcare program, where a child or baby may be cared for in a home environment by a registered household in the Yongsan Community.
"As of now, six children can be taken care of through FCC," Mohn said. "We'd like to expand that number to ten by the end of this year."
"With the growing demand put on our programs, we have had to recruit managers of CYS Services programs from other garrisons," Mohn said. "We are working to provide better sports activities for the youth, better child care and better after-school programs."
Both participants and volunteers have already benefited from CYS Services programs.
Ronald Valero, sports activity coordinator at Seoul American Middle School, has been getting a discount for childcare for the past year; part of a benefit package that comes with helping CYS Services programs. "I'm getting 50 percent off child care costs," Valero said. "The programs here, especially during the summer, keep my daughter busy and allow her to have a good time."
"We've been seeing a lot of great things lately," Mohn said. "With the Garrison in full support of our activities, I am confident that this team will be able to provide the services that the community members need and deserve."
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