Child Care Center
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Boys & Girls Club of Hackensack
Hackensack, NJ
· Bergen County
170 B Sussex Street,
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Quick Facts
Capacity
125 children
Age Range
6 - 13 years
Subsidized Program
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Contact Information
📞 (973) 473-7410
Licensed Child Care Center
Active License
License Number
101000054
License Issued
Sep 25, 2026
Active Through
Sep 25, 2029
Issued By
New Jersey Department of Children & Families
District Office
New Jersey Dept of Children and Families - Office of Licensing
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About the Provider
The Boys & Girls Club of Lodi was chartered in 1958. The mission of the Boys & Girls Club of Lodi is to enable all young people especially those who need us most to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. Boys & Girls Clubs are there to provide a safe place to learn and grow, as well as help the youth establish on going relationships with caring adult professionals. This is accomplished by providing the members with life enhancing programs and character development experiences.
Hours of Operation
- Monday03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
- Tuesday03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
- Wednesday03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
- Thursday03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
- Friday03:00 PM - 07:00 PM
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Inspection/Report History
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| Inspection Date | Type | Reinspection / Rule | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-12 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-12-15 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-11-12 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-11-10 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-09-15 | Renewal,Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2025-07-02 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-04-24 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-03-17 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-03-10 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2025-02-24 | Other | No | Center Inspection |
| 2024-12-02 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
| 2023-05-03 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2023-02-27 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2023-02-24 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2023-02-22 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2023-01-10 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2023-01-03 | Yes | Center Inspection | |
| 2022-11-07 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2022-09-30 | Renewal | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-09-30 | Renewal | No | Center Inspection |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-6.1(h)(1)(v) | Ensure that school-age children are involved in the planning and implementing of activities, including offering opportunities for individual quiet time, structured and unstructured activities and small-group and large-group activities. The center did not offer any scheduled activities. Most of the children did not have homework. As such, some children just walked around with no activities. One child was laying on the sofa on a tablet. Ensure activities are offered to children who do not have homework during homework help time. - For school-age child care programs, the following shall apply: centers shall plan and implement programs that include daily schedules that include individual quiet times, structured and unstructured activities, and small-group and large-group activities. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-2.2(e) | Post the center's license in a prominent location in each building associated with the center. The center has a temporary license posted. - The license shall be posted in a prominent location within the center and in each building associated with the center. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-6.1(b)(7) | Ensure that the use of television, computers, and other video equipment is for educational and instructional use, is age and developmentally appropriate, is not used as a substitute for planned activities, and is not used for passive viewing. Children were playing video games and watching non-instructional movies. - The staff member(s) specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.5 who are responsible for developing and overseeing the implementation of the center's daily activities shall ensure that the use of a television, computers, and other video equipment shall be limited to educational and instructional use, shall be age and developmentally appropriate, and shall not be used as a substitute for planned activities or for passive viewing. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-6.3(a)(11)(vi) | Ensure that the children are not permitted to eat foods brought into the center by other children without parental consent. One child arrived to the center with potato chips and cookies and provided them to the children. - All centers shall comply with the following requirements, unless contraindicated by the parent or health care provider, the center shall ensure that food and beverages are in accordance with minimum Child and Adult Care Food Program's (CACFP) standards, contained in the Child and Adult Care Food Program, 7 CFR 226.20, which is incorporated herein by reference, and can be obtained at http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/care/childcare.htm, including portion size and nutritional value. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-7.9(a)(1) | Maintain an illness log on file at the center and ensure that it contains all of the required components. - For early childhood programs, the following shall apply: the center shall maintain on file a log of the initial illnesses, symptoms of illness, or diseases that are exhibited by each child while in the center’s care, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.1(c) and (d). This illness log shall include |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-7.6(b)(1) | Complete accident reports as required, including the name of the injured child. - The center shall maintain on file a written record of each incident resulting in an injury as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-7.6(a). These records shall include the following: the name of the injured child. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-4.5(a)(3)(i)(2) | Ensure that the center develops and implements job descriptions, titles and qualifications for all center staff. - The sponsor or sponsor representative shall designate individuals with the authority and responsibility to develop and implement written policies and procedures for the operation of the center, including job descriptions, titles and qualifications for all center staff. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-4.5(c)(2)(i) | Designate a director designee for whenever the director is not present at the center and ensure that the director designee does not have full-time classroom responsibilities during the times the director is not at the center. Ensure full access to the center's paperwork is provided when the director is not present. - The director or his or her designee(s) shall be on the premises at all times when the center is operating and the designee shall not have full-time classroom responsibilities during the times when the director is not present at the center. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-4.6(a) | Ensure that the center completes and maintains on file a Staff Records Checklist designated by OOL. - The center shall maintain on file a Staff Records Checklist designated by the Office of Licensing, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.1(b), indicating that the center has obtained documentation of the applicable staff education and experience, as specified in 3A:52-4.6(b) through (d). |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-4.10(b)(1) | Ensure that all staff submit a CARI background check upon renewal. - When the center applies for a new or renewal license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall submit to the Department the completed CARI consent forms for all staff members who are or will be working at the center on a regularly scheduled basis. Within two weeks after a new staff member begins working at the center, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall submit to the Department a completed CARI consent form for the new staff member. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-4.11(a)(1) | Ensure that all staff, the sponsor and/or the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required.Ensure that all staff, the sponsor and/or the sponsor representative complete a CHRI background check as required for the center's license renewal. - As a condition of securing a license or Certificate of Life/Safety Approval, the sponsor or sponsor representative shall ensure that a Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) fingerprint background check is completed for himself or herself, and for all staff members at least 18 years of age who are or will be working at the center on a regularly- scheduled basis, to determine whether any such person has been convicted of a crime, as specified in P.L. 2000, c. 77 (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-6.10 to 6.17). The sponsor or sponsor representative and each staff member shall complete the electronic fingerprinting process through the vendor authorized by the State to conduct CHRI background checks through the Division of State Police in the Department of Law and Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-4.8(a)(2) | Ensure that all staff complete orientation training within two weeks of hire and annually, including understanding center operations, policies and procedures. - Topics of orientation training shall include understanding center operations, policies and procedures, as specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.5(b)3. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-4.8(c) | Ensure that all staff complete 12 hours of staff development annually. - The center shall ensure that all staff members who work at the center complete 12 hours of continuing staff development each year. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-4.8(d)(1) | Ensure that all credentialed staff complete 20 hours of staff development annually. - In lieu of the child care staff development specified in N.J.A.C. 3A:52-4.8(b), the director, head teacher(s), group teacher(s), and program supervisor(s) shall each complete 20 hours of staff development each year. Recommended topics of training for these staff include educational and physical activity. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(o)(1) | Ensure that at least two staff have current first aid and CPR certifications and are present at all times at the center. - First aid requirements are as follows: at least two staff members who have current certified basic knowledge of first aid principles and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), as defined by a recognized health organization (such as the American Red Cross), shall be in the center at all times when enrolled children are present. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-6.8(a)(1) | Ensure that the center completes and maintains on file a children's records checklist, including the child's name, address, birth date and date of enrollment. - The center shall complete and maintain on file for each enrolled child a Children’s Records Checklist, signed by the director, sponsor, or sponsor representative and designated by the Office of Licensing, indicating that the center has obtained documentation of the child's name, address, birth date, and date of enrollment. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-3.4(a) | Ensure that the center has a current comprehensive general liability insurance policy and maintains the documentation on file. - The sponsor or sponsor representative shall secure comprehensive general liability insurance coverage for the center and shall maintain on file a copy of the insurance policy or documentation of current insurance coverage. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-5.2(a)(5) | Ensure that all illuminated exit signs and emergency lighting are operable at all times throughout the center. Repair the broken exit light in the hallway leading into the gym from the 2nd floor. - The center shall be permitted to obtain a valid fire safety inspection certificate issued by the municipality in which it is located, based on a fire inspection conducted within the preceding 12 months, and submit a copy of the certificate to the Office of Licensing in lieu of a CO or CCO, if the center serves only children 2 ½ years of age or older and is located in a public school building that is used as a public school. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(a)(9) | Ensure that toilets, wash basins, kitchen sinks and other plumbing are maintained in operating and sanitary condition. The toilets leak when flushed in the 1st two stalls in the girl's restroom. - Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: toilets, wash basins, kitchen sinks, and other plumbing shall be maintained in good operating and sanitary condition. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(i)(5)(i) | Complete and submit a DCF Drinking Water Testing Checklist and Statement of Assurance and a copy of the center's water testing completed by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection. - Environmental condition precautions are as follows: at the time of the initial application, any renewal application, relocation of an existing licensed center and, in the discretion of the Office of Licensing, any other time, the applicant or facility operator shall certify in writing that the center provides a potable water supply provided by a public community water system. If the facility is supplied by a public community water system, the applicant or facility operator shall provide documentation of water testing conducted by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection for water testing for lead and copper from all faucets and other sources used for drinking water or food preparation and at least 50 percent of all indoor water faucets utilized by the center. |
| 2022-09-30 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(a)(19) | Complete radon testing in every room on the lowest floor used by children and post the results in a prominent location. - Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: the center shall test for the presence of radon gas in each classroom on the lowest floor level used by children at least once every five years and shall post the test results in a prominent location in all buildings at the center, as specified in N.J.S.A. 30:5B-5.2. |
| 2022-09-03 | Violation | 3A:52-5.3(a)(2) | Ensure that all surfaces are kept clean and in good repair. Repair the broken wall vent in room #1 on the 1st floor. - Indoor maintenance and sanitation requirements are as follows: floors, carpeting, walls, window coverings, ceilings, and other surfaces shall be kept clean and in good repair. |
| 2020-03-04 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2020-01-22 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2020-01-03 | Re-Inspection | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2019-10-22 | Renewal | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2019-10-03 | Renewal | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2019-09-11 | Renewal | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2019-06-21 | Monitoring | Yes | Center Inspection |
| 2019-05-06 | Monitoring | No | Center Inspection |
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