Cortland County Community Action Program, Inc. - Cortland NY Day Care Center

22 Tompkins Street , Cortland NY 13045
(607) 756-8450

About the Provider

Description: The CAPCO Head Start Program believes all children and families have strengths and deserve the opportunity to develop and maintain a happy and healthy life. We support each child and family in achieving social and emotional well-being. Through the guidance of the CAPCO Head Start staff, it is our hope each and every family will become self-reliant members of the community.

Additional Information: This facility is authorized to administer medications;Initial License Date: 7/19/2005;

Program and Licensing Details

  • License Number: 237233
  • Capacity: 44
  • Age Range: Total Capacity: 44;Infants: 0;Toddlers: 0;Preschool: 44;School-Age: 0;
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program: No
  • Schools Served: Cortland School District
  • Initial License Issue Date: Jul 19, 2005
  • Current License Issue Date: Jul 19, 2019
  • District Office: Syracuse Regional Office
  • District Office Phone: (315) 423-1202 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)

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Inspection/Report History

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Date Type Regulations Status
2020-01-16 Violation 418-1.8(a) Corrected
Brief Description: Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
2019-06-17 Violation 418-1.3(o)(2) Corrected
Brief Description: Buildings, systems and equipment must be kept in good repair and operate as designed.
2019-06-14 Violation 418-1.7(w) Corrected
Brief Description: Children unable to sleep during nap time shall not be confined to a sleeping surface (cot, crib, etc) but instead must be offered a supervised place for quiet play.
2019-06-14 Violation 418-1.9(b) Corrected
Brief Description: The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems.
2019-06-14 Violation 418-1.10(c)(1) Corrected
Brief Description: Child day care center staff must personally make, or cause to be made, an immediate report to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment by telephone, followed by a written report within 48 hours, in the form and manner prescribed by the Office, to the child protective service of the social services district in the county in which the child resides.
2019-06-14 Violation 418-1.15(b)(14) Corrected
Brief Description: The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the death, serious incident, serious injury, serious condition, communicable illness, or transportation to a hospital, of a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program. A serious incident includes any event in which a child requires medical attention other than routine illness, is left without competent supervision for any period of time, or leaves the program without an approved teacher or designated person.
2019-06-12 Violation 418-1.8(c) Corrected
Brief Description: The child day care center must provide supervision of the staff responsible for the care of children. Workloads and assignments must be arranged to provide consistency of care to children and to allow staff to fulfill their respective responsibilities.
2019-06-12 Violation 418-1.9(a) Corrected
Brief Description: The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors.
2019-06-12 Violation 418-1.9(g) Corrected
Brief Description: Where a child's behavior harms or is likely to result in harm to the child, others or property, or seriously disrupts or is likely to seriously disrupt group interaction, the child may be separated briefly from the group, but only for as long as is necessary for the child to regain enough self-control to rejoin the group. The child must be placed in an area where he or she is in the view of, and can be supervised and supported by, a teacher. Interaction between a teacher and the child must take place immediately following the separation to guide the child toward appropriate group behavior. Separation of a child from the group in a manner other than that provided for herein is prohibited.
2019-06-12 Violation 418-1.9(h) Corrected
Brief Description: Physical restraint is prohibited. Physical restraint is the act of using force to extremely limit a child's body movements for a lengthy period of time. It involves holding a child against his/her will and putting pressure on the child's chest and/or extremities in an effort to significantly restrict his/her movement, thereby making it extremely difficult for a child to move. It may also involve holding a child flat on the ground and restricting his/her body from movement.
2019-06-12 Violation 418-1.10(c) Corrected
Brief Description: In accordance with the provisions of Sections 413 and 415 of the Social Services Law, child day care center staff must report any suspected incidents of child abuse or maltreatment concerning a child receiving child day care to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment, or cause such a report to be made, when such staff have reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them in their capacity as child day care center workers is an abused or maltreated child. This must be done in the following manner:
2019-06-12 Violation 418-1.15(b)(14) Corrected
Brief Description: The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the death, serious incident, serious injury, serious condition, communicable illness, or transportation to a hospital, of a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program. A serious incident includes any event in which a child requires medical attention other than routine illness, is left without competent supervision for any period of time, or leaves the program without an approved teacher or designated person.
2019-06-12 Violation 418-1.10(a) Corrected
Brief Description: Any abuse or maltreatment of a child is prohibited. A day care center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by an staff, volunteer or any other person. An abused child or maltreated child means a child defined as an abused child or maltreated child pursuant to Section 412 of the Social Services Law.
2019-06-11 Violation 418-1.13(b)(4) Corrected
Brief Description: the information necessary to determine whether the applicant is the subject of an indicated report of child abuse and maltreatment as required by section 418-1.10(b)(1)(i) of this Subpart.
2019-06-05 Violation 418-1.8(b) Corrected
Brief Description: The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children.

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