2001 Latino Heritage Local Heroes: Milagros Acosta
Executive SF Hispanic Child Care Providers
Milagros Acosta is a leading Childcare provider and organizer in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Born in Puerto Rico, Milagros has lived in San Francisco for 20 years and has owned her own private day care for over 9 years. Milagros became affiliated wit the San Francisco Children’s Council and Wu Yee Children’s Services to due to the rising number of unlicensed Latina child care providers. She felt these women were not only underpaid for their invaluable services, but they were missing out on professional development opportunities. Milagros has committed the last ten years of her professional life to organizing and educating unlicensed providers, she has helped them develop business plans, get licensed, and get their early childhood education units. Milagros feels strongly about the need for childcare providers to see themselves as professionals.
She has been a leader in raising awareness about the high numbers of uneducated, unlicensed Latina providers that are in high demand because they can teach English-speaking children Spanish. Through the S. F. Children's Council, Wu Yee, conferences and other community events, Milagros has organized Latina child care providers and this year is organizing the first Hispanic Child Care Professionals Conference in Spanish in the Bay Area. This conference will be giving units from City College to its participants and its aim is to educate, empower and raise awareness around the high number of Latina providers in the Bay Area.
Milagros Acosta is well known and loved in the Mission District and in the Bay Area for her commitment to the development and professional growth of Latina Women in the Bay Area. Milagros is married and is the mother of two daughters, Beatrice and Dianna. She completed a BA in Sociology and one year post-graduate studies in Social Studies; earned 24 units in Early Childhood Education; and spent 4 years as a Paraprofessional for the San Francisco Unified School District.
She is a Spanish Trainer for KQED Public Television 9 and Sesame Street PEP Program. She has been a Childcare Provider in the Mission District since 1992.
The Hispanic Child Care Providers Group has been in the Mission for the last ten years. In 1999 Milagros became President of the Mission Neighborhood Advisory Committee-Hispanic Childcare Providers Group of San Francisco.
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