Description: Annie's Ark is a Licensed Child Care Center in Baltimore MD, with a maximum capacity of 73 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 6 weeks through 17 months, 18 months through 23 months, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 5 years to 15 years. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-23 | Mandatory Review | 13A.16.06.09C | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed one staff member who needed to finish her 12 hours of continued training. | |||
| 2021-06-21 | Full | 13A.16.03.05C | Corrected |
| Findings: Ls informed the program director that there were 7 staff members that were not fingerprinted for the rapback and needed to be fingerprinted immediately. The center director stated that she was never informed that any of these staff members who had been employed at the center for years did not have fingerprints for the rapback. The director also stated that she was never informed by her previous specialist that this was needed. Ls also observed one staff person in Room 4 who had not been cleared by the Office of Child Care in charge of a group of 8 preschool children. | |||
| 2021-06-21 | Full | 13A.16.05.08D | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed a boys bathroom used by school age children that did not have one stall. Noncompliance corrected on 06/28/2021. The provider sent a picture of the completed stalls. | |||
| 2021-06-21 | Full | 13A.16.06.05C(2) | Corrected |
| Findings: LS did not observe professional development plans for the director. LS explained how the PDP's were used to track the continued training for each 12 month period. LS also discussed that the 12 year period is based on the individual start date of each staff member. Noncompliance corrected at the time of inspection and created a PDP for herself. | |||
| 2021-06-21 | Full | 13A.16.06.10C(2) | Corrected |
| Findings: LS did not observe professional development plans for the school age teacher. LS explained how the PDP's were used to track the continued training for each 12 month period. LS also discussed that the 12 year period is based on the individual start date of each staff member. Noncompliance corrected at the time of inspection and created a PDP for school age staff. | |||
| 2021-06-21 | Full | 13A.16.06.12B(2) | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed no professional development plans for aides. LS explained how the PDP's were used to track the continued training for each 12 month period. LS also discussed that the 12 year period is based on the individual start date of each staff member. Noncompliance corrected at the time of inspection and created a PDP for the aides. | |||
| 2021-06-21 | Full | 13A.16.08.02B | Corrected |
| Findings: LS observed in room 9, there was a staff person (VR) in charge of a group of 6 infants that was not qualified to be an Infant and Toddler teacher. LS also observed in Room 10 a staff person that needs the 9 hour communication course in order to be PS qualified in charge of a group of 8 preschool children. | |||
| 2021-06-14 | Complaint | 13A.16.03.05B | Corrected |
| Findings: At the time of the inspection, the Staffing Patterns did not reflect the staff in the room (Rooms 4 & 6). On 06/21/2021, Director submitted updated Staffing Patterns, non compliance corrected. | |||
| 2021-06-14 | Complaint | 13A.16.03.05E | Corrected |
| Findings: At the time of the inspection, Director has substitutes being used and did not have record the day and who the substitute being used for. On 06/21/2021 LS observed new record of Substitutes during Full Inspection, non compliance corrected. | |||
| 2021-06-14 | Complaint | 13A.16.03.06A(1) | Corrected |
| Findings: One staff member has been working at the center for the last week and has not been cleared and paperwork was not submitted until today 06/14/2021. On 6/23/2021 paperwork was received and staff member was cleared, non compliance was corrected. | |||
| 2021-06-14 | Complaint | 13A.16.03.06A(2) | Corrected |
| Findings: At the time of the inspection, one staff member was no longer working at the center and the office did not receive written notification. On 06/21/2021 Director submitted 1203 deleting staff, non compliance corrected. | |||
| 2021-06-14 | Complaint | 13A.16.05.08D | Corrected |
| Findings: At the time of the inspection the toilet being used by Kindergarten age children did not have door on the stall. On 06/28/2021 Director sent picture of both stalls with doors installed, non compliance corrected. | |||
| 2021-06-14 | Complaint | 13A.16.07.06C | Corrected |
| Findings: At the time of the inspection, one staff member is missing her State CBC in the center file. On 06/22/2021 CBCs were received for staff member, non compliance corrected. | |||
| 2021-06-14 | Complaint | 13A.16.08.01A(2)(a) | Corrected |
| Findings: At the time of the inspection, Room #9 had a staff member that was not in CCATS and not cleared by the office. On 06/15/2021, paperwork for the staff member was emailed from Director to Specialist, non compliance corrected. | |||
| 2020-08-07 | Mandatory Review | ||
| Findings: No Noncompliances Found | |||
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Very friendly staff.
Today I witnessed an Amazon driver delivering a package here when four of the girls that work in Annie’s Ark walked outside and assaulted the Amazon driver while she was walking to her truck from behind the four girls then proceeded to try to jump this Amazon woman While all four of them women was outside trying to jump the Amazon girl there was nobody in there with the children watching them the owner showed up after the police and they all watched the video from the drugstore next-door and the video showed everything that the Amazon girl said that happened how she was walking away and they try to jump her from behind I would not recommend taking your children here and if you do have children here I would highly think about finding somewhere else to take your children The news has been contacted about the incident and they will be in touch With the owner to figure out why she employs people that have such disregard for children safety In my opinion that was very unprofessional and very disrespectful to all the parents out there that pay for their children to go to this daycare If I could give 0 I would
Only have experience with baby room but teachers here are very nice and caring. They are alwaus good about letting me know when Supplies are low and send home notifications.
Met with the owner, Ann, as well as the teacher for the 3 year old class to do a walk through and discuss enrolling our son. Gave them advance notice that our son, who has autism, needed a smaller class than the daycare he was currently enrolled in, which is why we were looking to transfer him on the advice of his psychologist. We also mentioned that our son was enrolled in the Infants and Toddlers program and would have speech and occupational therapists, as well as his psychologist making weekly visits for his therapy on site. They seemed to listen and take everything in stride, and said it would be no problem and they'd be glad to work with him. We enrolled him and he began this past Monday. My wife took the day off and stayed with our son for a few hours to make sure he was okay with his new surroundings. He began playing with toys and seemed happy, so she left him there for the day. When she returned to pick him up later that day, the owner, Ann caught my wife outside and immediately told her that our son had a "bad day". She asked what happened, and Ann sent her in to see the teacher. The teacher told my wife that our son wouldn't take a nap, and that he wouldn't sit in the group for circle time. My son is non-verbal, and cannot sit still for long, but he is also a 3 year old boy in a brand new environment, with all new stimuli around him, so that's not that out of the ordinary that he wouldn't take a nap or wouldn't sit for circle time for the first day or two he's there. Our son seemed in a good mood when my wife got there, so we marked it up to first day growing pains. My wife called our son's speech therapist and explained what happened that day, and the speech therapist said she would come the next day to meet with the staff and owner to show them how to work with our son. The next day the speech therapist went to the daycare and worked for several hours with the owner and staff of Annie's Ark and according to her report, they seemed very receptive to her ideas and willing to work with our son's delays. Our son again seemed happy, and the staff told her that our son even took a nap on this day when my wife picked him up from daycare later that day, so we assumed all went well. That evening the psychologist sent an email and said that she'd be going to the daycare the next day to work with the owner and staff to teach them how to work with our son. We received a voicemail from the psychologist the next day (Wednesday) saying that she'd met with our son, the owner and staff of Annie's Ark and she felt that he would do very well there, and that the staff seemed genuinely interested in working with her to help our son flourish in their environment. Shortly after we received that voicemail I received a call from Ann, the owner. She started off the conversation by saying that she doesn't think our son being there is going to work. I asked what happened. She told me that she just doesn't feel he is a good fit, and that he doesn't listen when it's time to get into the circle for circle time, and that he also hadn't taken a nap that day. She also said he was a disruption to the other students during circle time because he chooses to play with toys instead and he doesn't respond to them when they ask him to come to the circle. I mentioned again that our son has autism and those are some of the results of his condition, and that we went over this when we interviewed with her for his enrollment. She said that she didn't understand what it meant when we told her he was autistic, and that she couldn't deal with it. She then complained to me that she had to take our son into her office with her and close the door because the teacher "needed a break from him", and now she can't get any work done because she had to watch him. I told her that I certainly wasn't going to debate to keep my son somewhere it's obvious he's not wanted, and told her I'd leave work immediately to come and pick him up. She said that he could stay until the end of that day with her but we'd need to find somewhere else for him to go after that. Given Ann's tone and what was said to me, I felt it best we went to get him right away. My wife left her work and went and picked our son up from Annie's Ark. When she got there, Ann brought our son out of her office and tried to discuss it with my wife, but by that point there was nothing left to say. Then her staff followed my wife to the car and asked if she would tell them why our son was kicked out of the last daycare he was at. She informed them that he was not kicked out, and that we transferred him to Annie's Ark at the recommendation of his psychologist because their classes were smaller so it would less stressful for him. I cannot put into words the level of disdain I have for the way this was handled. Not only did Ann, the owner, make it appear to us that our son would be welcome at her daycare despite his learning disabilities, but she also led both his speech therapist and his psychologist into thinking she was on board with working with them and our son, only to throw him out in the middle of the week because he wouldn't nap when she wanted him to and he wouldn't sit it circle time. My wife reached out to another mom who had a similar review of Annie's Ark. The mom shared her story, which was very similar to ours. She has a child with autism, and the owner said it would be fine, but then when the therapists came to visit, she immediately received a call from Ann saying that her son wasn't a good fit for them and was immediately pulled out. I can only hope that other parents of special needs children read this review before they consider Annie's Ark so they are not caught off guard as we were. Structure is very important to children with autism, and being ripped out of a daycare with nowhere to go can create chaos for them.