ACAP @ Ontario Street Head Start - Albany NY Day Care Center

170 Ontario St , Albany NY 12206
(518) 729-2001

About the Provider

Description: ACAP @ Ontario Street Head Start is a Day Care Center in Albany NY, with a maximum capacity of 135 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of Total Capacity: 135;Infants: 8;Toddlers: 12;Preschool: 115;School-Age: 0;. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.

Program and Licensing Details

  • License Number: 660719
  • Capacity: 135
  • Age Range: Total Capacity: 135;Infants: 8;Toddlers: 12;Preschool: 115;School-Age: 0;
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program: No
  • Schools Served: Albany School District
  • Initial License Issue Date: 2014-02-21
  • Current License Issue Date: 2020-02-21
  • District Office: Albany Regional Office
  • District Office Phone: (518) 402-3038 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)

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Inspection/Report History

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Date Type Regulations Status
2022-07-13 Violation 418-1.15(c)(32) Not Corrected
Brief Description: The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: documentation from service personnel qualified to perform fire suppression systems maintenance, repair and testing showing that fire suppression equipment and systems have been tested and maintained during the current license period in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Fire and Building Code of New York State;
2019-06-04 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.
2019-06-04 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.
2019-06-04 Violation 418-1.11(c)(1) Corrected
Brief Description: The licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all staff and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program's health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are:
2019-06-04 Violation 418-1.13(a)(1) Corrected
Brief Description: Staff and volunteers must be mature, of good character and possess suitable personal qualifications.
2019-06-04 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.
2019-03-15 Violation 418-1.5(r) Corrected
Brief Description: An operable flashlight or battery powered lantern must be kept in each classroom. Such equipment must be properly maintained for use in the event of a power failure.
2019-03-15 Violation 418-1.15(b)(22)(i) Corrected
Brief Description: the Office's child day care center regulations;
2019-03-15 Violation 418-1.15(c)(21) Corrected
Brief Description: all records relevant to the current licensing period, and the immediately preceding licensing period;
2019-03-15 Violation 418-1.15(c)(22) Corrected
Brief Description: documentation from the local health department or the New York State Department of Health showing that the facility has been approved in accordance with the requirements of the New York State Department of Health;
2019-02-26 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.
2019-01-09 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:
2018-12-19 Violation 418-1.9(j) Corrected
Brief Description: Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Subpart, the term corporal punishment means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child's mouth soap, foods, hot spices or irritants or the like.
2018-12-19 Violation 418-1.9(m) Corrected
Brief Description: Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited.
2018-12-19 Violation 418-1.15(b)(4) Corrected
Brief Description: The staff and volunteers must be in good health and be of good character and habits.

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