Senior Care Associate, Family Day Care
Forest Hills
Job: Shkolnikov is the senior care associate at Family Day Care, a home-based child care program of the Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA) that primarily serves immigrant families from the former Soviet Union.
FAMILY: Married with three children ages 17 and 8-year-old twins.
CAREER GOAL: “I want to continue studying psychology.”
FONDEST MEMORY: “Meeting parents whose children have finished the program and hearing about the children’s success.”
BIGGEST GRIPE: “When a parent comes to me and wants to put their child in the program but there’s not enough money in the budget. I want to help all families.”
PROUDEST MOMENT: “Teaching [day care] providers to be warm and the best way to interact with parents.”
HOPES: “That JCCA grows to be a bigger organization, as it has grown over the years, and to contribute my own experience to others.”
INSPIRATION: “My boss, Rebecca Koffler, who helps me, and my husband who understands me and helps in raising our children.”
