Day Care Center
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Expressive Beginnings Child Care
Rochester, NY
· Monroe County
875 Commons Way,
Rochester, NY 14623
Quick Facts
Capacity
147 children
Age Range
16 Infants, 24 Toddlers, 100 Preschoolers and 7 School-Aged Children
Subsidized Program
Does not participate
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Licensed Day Care Center
Active License
License Number
524418
License Holder
Rebecca L. Meagher
Licensed Since
2011
License Issued
Jul 29, 2025
Active Through
Jul 28, 2029
Issued By
New York State Office of Children and Family Services
District Office
Rochester Regional Office
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About the Provider
Expressive Beginnings Child Care is a Day Care Center in Rochester NY, with a maximum capacity of 147 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 16 Infants, 24 Toddlers, 100 Preschoolers and 7 School-Aged Children. It is open Monday - Friday, 06:00 AM - 06:00 PM. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
Additional Information:
This facility is authorized to administer medications;
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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| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-24 | Self-Report | Self-Report | 2026-I-RRO-066146 |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2026-06-18 | Self-Report | Self-Report | 2026-I-RRO-057950 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2026-06-18 | Self-Report | Self-Report | 2026-I-RRO-057787 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2026-06-18 | Self-Report | Self-Report | 2026-I-RRO-057776 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2026-05-26 | Other | Other | 2026-I-RRO-052594 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2026-05-22 | Complaint (Investigation Pending) | Complaint (Investigation Pending) | |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2026-05-22 | Complaint (Investigation Pending) | Complaint (Investigation Pending) | 2026-I-RRO-052579 |
| Brief Description: Violations Found | |||
| 2026-04-10 | Self-Report | Self-Report | 2026-I-RRO-029155 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2026-02-23 | Self-Report | Self-Report | 2026-I-RRO-022802 |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2026-02-04 | Annual Unannounced | Annual Unannounced | 2026-I-RRO-005044 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2025-09-09 | Application - Renewal | Application - Renewal | 2025-I-RRO-028701 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2025-06-16 | Complaint (Substantiated) | Complaint (Substantiated) | |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2025-06-16 | Complaint (Substantiated) | Complaint (Substantiated) | 2025-I-RRO-046166 |
| Brief Description: Violations Found | |||
| 2025-06-16 | Violation | 418-1.8(a) | P/V |
| Brief Description: Competent supervision is maintained at all times | |||
| 2025-06-10 | Monitoring | Monitoring | 2025-I-RRO-045356 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2025-03-04 | Annual Unannounced | Annual Unannounced | 2025-I-RRO-006162 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2024-11-26 | Annual Unannounced | Annual Unannounced | 2024-I-RRO-006042 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2024-11-26 | Complaint (Substantiated) | Complaint (Substantiated) | |
| Brief Description: Violations found | |||
| 2024-11-26 | Complaint (Substantiated) | Complaint (Substantiated) | 2024-I-RRO-109164 |
| Brief Description: Violations Found | |||
| 2024-02-01 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | 2024-I-RRO-024745 |
| Brief Description: No violations cited | |||
| 2022-08-02 | Violation | 418-1.5(a)(1)(i) | Not Corrected |
| Brief Description: The program must take suitable precautions to prevent the following: serious injury of a child while in care at the program or being transported by the program; and | |||
| 2022-08-02 | Violation | 418-1.8(a) | Not 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. | |||
| 2022-04-08 | Violation | 418-1.9(b) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems. | |||
| 2022-03-15 | Violation | 418-1.9(d) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Behavior management must promote self-esteem in children and guide children in such a way as to help each child develop self-control and assume responsibility for his or her actions through clear and consistent rules and limits appropriate to the ages and development of the children in care. | |||
| 2022-03-15 | 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. | |||
| 2022-03-15 | 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. | |||
| 2022-03-15 | Violation | 418-1.10(c) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: In accordance with the provisions of Sections 413 and 415 of the Social Services Law, child care center staff must immediately report any suspected incidents of child abuse or maltreatment concerning a child receiving child 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 care center workers is an abused or maltreated child. This must be done in the following manner: | |||
| 2022-03-15 | Violation | 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident, | |||
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