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Children's Day Center And Preschool
Baraboo, WI
· Sauk County
525 Madison Ave,
Baraboo, WI 53913
Quick Facts
Capacity
50 children
Age range (listing information)
6 wks - 10 yrs 11 mo
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Type of Care
Full-Time, Drop-in / Hourly
Subsidized Program
Participates
YoungStar Rating
3
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Contact Information
📞 (608) 356-4116
Licensed LICENSED GROUP
Active License
License Number
120079
License Holder
Christian Velasquez
Licensed Since
1997
License Issued
May 20, 1997
Issued By
Wisconsin Department of Children and Families
District Office
Wisconsin Dept of Children and Families (DCF) - Child Care Regulation and Licensing
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About the Provider
Our goal at Children’s Day Center is to provide a nurturing, safe and stimulating environment that embraces learning through play to promote the physical, social, emotional and cognitive development of our students. We believe children learn best by “doing,” and encourage creativity, curiosity and exploration. Given opportunities to explore the world around them, young children become active, involved learners. Children’s Day Center is a place where they can be successful and discover that learning is fun. We believe that it takes a village to raise a child, and the child care provider is part of a family’s village. Parent involvement is encouraged at Children’s Day Center. Together with parents, we foster a community of support by having open and regular communication between teachers and parents. We hope to build this support system through monthly parent meetings, family events and volunteer opportunities.
Additional Information:
3 stars. Initial License Date: 5/20/1997. Open Jan - Dec.
Hours of Operation
- Monday06:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Tuesday06:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Wednesday06:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Thursday06:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Friday06:00 AM-06:00 PM
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Inspection/Report History
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| Violation Date | Rule Number | Rule Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-13 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2026-07-13 | During the licensing visit on 7/13/26, maximum group size for the Red Room, which included at least one child under 18 months of age, was exceeded when nine children were present and eight is the maximum size for the group. | Violation |
| Description: 251.055(2)(d) - Mixed Age Group With Children Under Age 2 - Group Size | ||
| 2026-07-13 | The number for the Poison Control Center was not available for staff in the Green Room or in the Red Room. | Violation |
| Description: 251.06(2)(f) - Telephones & Emergency Phone Numbers | ||
| 2026-07-13 | The outdoor premises were not in good repair when a corner of the building, accessible to children in their outdoor play space, was deteriorating at child level. | Violation |
| Description: 251.06(2)(gm) - Premises - Well Drained, Clean, In Good Repair | ||
| 2026-07-13 | Two garbage bins in the children's outdoor play space were not covered. One had the lid inverted and trash was sitting on top of the upside-down lid. The other garbage container had a long, sharp wooden stick protruding out the top. Children were present in the outdoor play space during the visit, and the garbage containers were accessible to them. | Violation |
| Description: 251.06(2)(n) - Garbage Containers - Construction & Disposal Schedule | ||
| 2026-07-13 | The menu for the week of the licensing visit was not posted for parents as required when a previous week's menu was posted. Different previous menus were posted in the Green Room and in the Red Room. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(5)(a)5.a. - Menus - Post | ||
| 2026-07-13 | During the licensing visit on 7/13/26, not all menus were available for review. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(5)(a)5.c. - Menus - Available For Review | ||
| 2026-07-13 | Changes in the menu for the week of July 6, 2026 were not documented. Lunch was listed as roast beef sandwiches, but staff reported that peanut butter sandwiches had been served instead. That change was not recorded on the posted menu by the Red Room, and no menus were available in the kitchen. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(5)(a)6. - Menus - Changes | ||
| 2026-07-13 | The medical log book in the Green Room was missing documentation of having been reviewed with staff within the previous six months. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(6)(dm)4. - Medical Log - Reviewing Injury Records | ||
| 2026-07-13 | During the visit in the Red Room, Staff B did not wash their hands after diapering an infant and then picked up another infant. When the rule was explained to Staff B, Staff B still did not wash hands and was then holding two infants. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(6)(i)2. - Adult Handwashing | ||
| 2026-07-13 | One of the playpens for an infant in the Red Room had a very loose sheet on the mattress that was bunched up in multiple places. | Violation |
| Description: 251.09(1)(j) - Infant & Toddler - Crib Mattresses & Coverings | ||
| 2026-07-13 | Staff B in the Red Room only used a one-step process to sanitize the diapering surface after diapering an infant, without first cleaning the surface. | Violation |
| Description: 251.09(4)(a)3. - Infant & Toddler - Diaper Changing Surface Disinfection | ||
| 2026-01-05 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2026-01-05 | Former managerial Staff A failed to report many instances of inappropriate child guidance to the department, including the following. On 11/26/25 former Staff B screamed at a 4-year-old child and took them into the office where they screamed at the child again, the child then screamed, "Stop! You're hurting me!" In early 2025, Former Staff F put toddlers in "leg jail", crossing staff ankles over children's legs. Former Staff B, C, D and E frequently yelled at children. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(3)(jm) - Report - Prohibited Actions | ||
| 2026-01-05 | During the course of a complaint investigation, menus were reviewed for an eight-week period. During that timeframe, there were several instances in which food components did not meet the USDA minimum meal requirements for either breakfast or afternoon snack. The following dates included breakfast or snack that did not meet minimum requirements: 12/17/25, 12/08/25, 11/25/25, 11/24/25, 11/11/25, 11/10/25, 11/05/25, and 10/27/25. There were five instances in which menu items were not clearly identified and were noted only as "cereal", "mixed cereal", or "mixed crackers". | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(5)(a)4. - Meals & Snacks - Minimum Meal Requirements | ||
| 2026-01-05 | Based on menu reviews and an interview with former Staff C during a complaint investigation, none of the center's menus were dated. They were only identified as "Week 1", "Week 2", "Week 3", and "Week 4". The week numbers 1 through 4 kept repeating for the entire winter and summer sessions. There was no way of verifying menu dates. Menus posted in classrooms during the licensing visit on 12/16/5 were not for the current week and were not dated. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(5)(a)5.b. - Menus - Plan | ||
| 2026-01-05 | Center staff are not following their written policies, which state time-out is not used. During the course of a complaint investigation, more than one staff person stated staff put children in time-out. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(2)(h)8. - Policy Submitted & Implemented - Child Guidance | ||
| 2026-01-05 | Former managerial Staff A failed to report many instances of inappropriate child guidance to the department, including the following. On 11/26/25 former Staff B screamed at a 4-year-old child and took them into the office where they screamed at the child again, the child then screamed, "Stop! You're hurting me!" In early 2025, Former Staff F put toddlers in "leg jail", crossing staff ankles over children's legs. Former Staff B, C, D and E frequently yelled at children. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(3)(jm) — Report - Prohibited Actions | ||
| 2026-01-05 | During the course of a complaint investigation, staff admitted they and former Staff D and former Staff E put one- and two-year-old children in time-out. This occurred in the Red Room and in the Purple Room. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(2)(c)1. - Time Out - Age | ||
| 2026-01-05 | Based on staff interviews during a complaint investigation, former Staff D put a 17-month-old child in time-out in the office one day for almost the entire day. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(2)(c)3. - Time Out - Time | ||
| 2026-01-05 | During the course of a complaint investigation, on 11/26/25 former Staff B grabbed a four-year-old child who was not a danger to themself or other children, took the child into the office and kept the child in the office for approximately ten minutes. On another occasion, former Staff D took a 17-month-old child into the office where the child remained for the majority of the day. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(2)(c)5. - Time Out - Not Removed From Classroom | ||
| 2026-01-05 | During the course of a complaint investigation, staff reported that former Staff F, who worked in early 2025, used to put children as young as one-and-one-half years old in "leg jail". Former Staff F used "leg jail" whenever a child was running or stomping. Former Staff F would sit in a rocking chair and have the child sit with their back against the chair, F would cross and lock their ankles over the child's shins for approximately two to three minutes. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(2)(e)3. - Prohibited Actions - Physical Restraint, Restriction, Enclosure | ||
| 2026-01-05 | Former Staff B, C, D and E yelled at children, some daily. On 11/26/25 former Staff B screamed at a child, took them into the office and screamed again, the child said, "Stop! You're hurting me!" B also yelled at a toddler, "Don't look at me like that!" Center staff who were close-knit threatened children with former Staff B & C. C aggressively threw blankets over children's bodies and heads, yelling "Lay down!" Children feared C, and C once made a child cry. Former Staff D targeted a 17-month-old child, the child was so afraid when D yelled, the child froze in place and wouldn't move. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(2)(e)5. - Prohibited Actions - Cruel, Aversive, Frightening, Humiliating Actions | ||
| 2026-01-05 | During the course of a complaint investigation, menus were reviewed for an eight-week period. During that timeframe, there were several instances in which food components did not meet the USDA minimum meal requirements for either breakfast or afternoon snack. The following dates included breakfast or snack that did not meet minimum requirements: 12/17/25, 12/08/25, 11/25/25, 11/24/25, 11/11/25, 11/10/25, 11/05/25, and 10/27/25. There were five instances in which menu items were not clearly identified and were noted only as "cereal", "mixed cereal", or "mixed crackers". | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(5)(a)4. — Meals & Snacks - Minimum Meal Requirements | ||
| 2026-01-05 | Based on menu reviews and an interview with former Staff C during a complaint investigation, none of the center's menus were dated. They were only identified as "Week 1", "Week 2", "Week 3", and "Week 4". The week numbers 1 through 4 kept repeating for the entire winter and summer sessions. There was no way of verifying menu dates. Menus posted in classrooms during the licensing visit on 12/16/5 were not for the current week and were not dated. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(5)(a)5.b. — Menus - Plan | ||
| 2026-01-05 | Based on an interview with former Staff C, and on menu observations during the 12/16/25 licensing visit, menu changes were only recorded on the copies kept in the kitchen, they were not posted for parents as required. | Violation |
| Description: 251.07(5)(a)6. - Menus - Changes | ||
| 2026-01-05 | During the course of a complaint investigation, it was discovered that former Staff F, who worked in early 2025, did not respond to crying children's needs. Instead, Staff F squirted crying infants with water bottles to get them to stop crying. Former Staff F and former Staff E had a "rule" that staff were not allowed to pick up crying children. Infants were left to cry for five or ten minutes, and sometimes all day. | Violation |
| Description: 251.09(2)(a) - Infant & Toddler - Responding To Crying Children | ||
| 2026-01-05 | During the course of a complaint investigation, according to staff interviews, former Staff E, who worked in the Red Room (infant room) forced infants to nap at specific times. Former Staff E prevented a five-month-old infant from sleeping when the child was tired, former Staff E forced the infant to stay awake until 11:00 am, which is the time former Staff E wanted all of the infants to take their nap. | Violation |
| Description: 251.09(2)(b) - Infant & Toddler - Individual Sleep Patterns | ||
| 2025-10-13 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2025-10-13 | The files for two volunteers who are being used in the capacity of assistant child care teachers were unavailable during the licensing visit. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(2)(a) - Staff Record - Maintenance & Availability | ||
| 2025-10-13 | Management staff have been allowing two volunteers to work alone with children in the capacity of assistant child care teachers. The volunteers are missing completed department-approved background checks. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(2)(a)2. - Staff Record - Completed Background Check | ||
| 2025-10-13 | Two volunteers who have been working with children at the center more than 30 days are missing a physical examination report signed and dated by an approved medical provider stating they are free from communicable diseases and are physically able to work with young children. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(2)(a)3.a. - Staff Record - Physical Examination | ||
| 2025-10-13 | The center does not maintain a record of the days and hours worked for two volunteers who have been working in the capacity of assistant child care teachers. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(2)(a)6. - Staff Record - Days & Hours Worked | ||
| 2025-10-13 | Two volunteers who have been working alone with children are missing documentation of having completed training in child abuse and neglect during their first week at the center. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(3)(cm) - Child Abuse & Neglect - Biennial Training | ||
| 2025-10-13 | Two under-age volunteers are being used as assistant child care teachers, management staff have been allowing them to work with children alone, without being supervised by a child care teacher. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(3)(g)1. - Assistant Child Care Teacher - Supervision | ||
| 2025-10-13 | Two under-age volunteers who have been working alone with children in the capacity of assistant child care teachers do not meet assistant teacher qualifications in the following respects: the individuals are both under age 18, and they are not eligible to complete the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction assistant child care teacher training program because they are also under age 17. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(3)(g)2. - Assistant Child Care Teacher - Qualifications | ||
| 2025-10-13 | Two volunteers who have been working alone with children are missing documentation of having completed a volunteer orientation during their first week at the center. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(3)(j)1. - Volunteers, Student Teachers - Orientation | ||
| 2025-10-13 | On 10/09/25, management staff asked a 14-year-old child to take a three-year-old child alone into the building to the bathroom, without being supervised by a child care teacher. The child's parent discovered the 14-year-old alone with their child coming out of the bathroom when no one else was in the building. Management staff admitted they occasionally allow that 14-year-old and another 14-year-old to take children alone to the bathroom. | Violation |
| Description: 251.055(1)(a) - Supervision Of Children | ||
| 2025-08-25 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2025-08-25 | Staff A and Staff B, who have been employed longer than 30 days, are missing a physical examination report. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(2)(a)3.a. - Staff Record - Physical Examination | ||
| 2025-08-25 | Staff B is missing documentation of having completed an orientation during their first week at the center. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(4)(a) - Staff Orientation - Develop, Implement, Document | ||
| 2025-07-10 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2025-07-10 | The department was notified of a child injury that resulted in professional medical evaluation 15 days after the incident occurred, instead of being notified within 24 hours of when center staff were aware of the medical evaluation. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(3)(a) - Report - Incident Or Accident | ||
| 2025-04-24 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2025-04-24 | On 4/23/25 the Department discovered that the center updated its written policies in July 2024 - and possibly in 2018 - but did not submit them immediately to the Department, as required. The Department only learned about the updated policies during the course of a complaint investigation. The most recent written policies were submitted to the Department in 2017. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(2)(h) - Policies Submitted & Implemented | ||
| 2025-04-24 | The center did not follow its written health policy, which states, "Children may return to Children's Day Center when they are no longer contagious or when a doctor's note states." The parent of a child who had been ill provided the center with a doctor's note dated 4/23/25 stating "the child may return to daycare at this time". The note was provided to the center on 4/23/25. A representative of the center admitted to the parent on 4/23/25 that they had reviewed the medical note, but told the parent the child would not be allowed to return unless additional conditions were met. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(2)(h)5. - Policy Submitted & Implemented - Health Care | ||
| 2024-10-22 | See Violations below | Licensing |
| 2024-10-22 | Child 1, who has been enrolled nearly one year, is missing documentation of a health history. | Violation |
| Description: 251.04(6)(a)6. - Child Record - Health History | ||
| 2024-10-22 | During the visit, several infants under one year of age were sleeping with soft swaddling blankets in cribs. One infant's swaddling blanket was creeping up to, and partially over the infant's face. | Violation |
| Description: 251.09(1)(L) - Infant & Toddler - Soft Materials In Cribs | ||
| 2024-07-02 | No Violations found *** | Licensing |
| 2024-07-02 | The center does not maintain documentation of staff days and hours worked, and in which classroom, when the person is included in the staff-to-child ratios when covering other staff breaks in the classroom. | Violation |
| Description: 251.05(2)(a)6. — Staff Record - Days & Hours Worked | ||
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