Success Stories

Today, Julian is the senior legal counsel at Sojitz Corporation of America, part of the Sojitz Group, a multi-national corporation with operations throughout the world. Before coming to Sojitz he was an associate at Proskauer Rose, one of New York’s largest and most well-known law firms. And before that, long before that, he was a toddler participating with his mother in the Westchester, New York Parent-Child Home Program.

Julian draws a clear line from his involvement in The Parent-Child Home Program to his success at Cornell University and Pace Law School. He’ll tell you right away: “The Program gave me the confidence I needed to enter school and learn English.”

In fact, when Julian went back and reviewed his own pre-kindergarten and kindergarten records, he discovered that his teachers had noted that, even as he was still working on learning English, he was very focused on learning everything and very comfortable interacting with all the different children in the classroom.

Julian vividly remembers the face of his Home Visitor. His mother Maria still has many of the program books, which became part of the family library and were also used by his younger brother! He says the Program helped his mother become comfortable in her role as his first teacher, and he has often said that he and his mother were “on the same page” about education and its importance. The Program also supported the family in its initial efforts to learn English.

Julian credits The Parent-Child Home Program and the sponsoring agency, Westchester Jewish Community Services, with making him “comfortable with himself as a learner.” He entered school confident that he could succeed and he has been succeeding ever since.