Description: The Vine Early Learning, Inc. is a Unlicensed Registered Ministry in Angola IN. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.
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| CCDF Inspection 2024-02-21 |
Each childcare provider, household member, employee, volunteer caregiver shall submit fingerprints for a national criminal history background check by the FBI or each childcare provider has local criminal check with documentation that national check is applied for. | 2024-03-05 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-3.5-12 Each childcare provider, household member, employee, volunteer caregiver shall submit fingerprints for a national criminal history background check by the FBI or each childcare provider has local criminal check with documentation that national check is applied for. |
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| CCDF Inspection 2024-02-21 |
A provider shall provide for a safe environment by ensuring that no conditions exist in or on the grounds of the facility where a provider operates a child care program that would endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the children, including ensuring that the following items are placed in areas that are inaccessible to children in the providers care: Fire arms, ammunition and other weapons Location __________ Poisons, chemicals, bleach cleaning materials and Medications Location __________. | 2024-02-22 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-3.5-11(a) A provider shall provide for a safe environment by ensuring that no conditions exist in or on the grounds of the facility where a provider operates a child care program that would endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the children, including ensuring that the following items are placed in areas that are inaccessible to children in the providers care: Poisons, chemicals, and cleaning materials |
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| CCDF Inspection 2024-02-21 |
A provider who cares for children who are less than 12 months of age shall complete a training course in safe sleep practices, approved by the Divison. Ensure that all caregivers of children who are less than 12 months of age follow safe sleep practices. | 2024-02-22 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-3.5-5.5(b) A provider who cares for children who are less than 12 months of age: Ensure that all caregivers of children who are less than 12 months of age follow safe sleep practices. |
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| Registration 2024-02-21 |
All interior surfaces, equipment, materials, furnishings, and objects with which children will come in contact shall be well maintained, in a clean and sanitary condition, and of nontoxic durable construction | 2024-02-22 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-4.5-4(1) Older 1's room = CeraVe lotion, febreeze, and aquaphor all under the changing table, behind a deterrent, within reach of children, all labeled Keep Out of Reach of Children. Younger 1's = Baby powder under changing table, behind, deterrent, labeled Keep Out of Reach of Children, accessible. |
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| Registration 2024-02-21 |
The child care ministry must do the following: Conduct a criminal history check of the child care ministrys employees and volunteers | 2024-03-05 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-6-14(1) Two staff members present have expired fingerprints with the division. |
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| Registration 2024-02-21 |
Diapers. The diapering process shall be done on a table, in a clean and sanitary manner. The diaper changing surface shall be sanitized after each use and materials used for skin cleansing shall be discarded after each use into a tightly covered, easily sanitized container. Individuals responsible for diaper changing shall wash their hands after each diaper change | 2024-02-22 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-4.5-6(d) Loose dirt/debris under the diaper pad in the younger 1's room. |
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| Registration 2024-02-21 |
Ill Children. Ill children shall be kept separate from others and all surfaces and items with which a sick child has come in contact with shall be cleaned and sanitized after each use. Individual belongings shall be kept separate | 2024-03-05 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-4.5-6(c) Nap items (blankets and pillows) in the older 1's class stored together in two buckets in classroom, not separate. |
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| Registration 2024-02-21 |
The operator of a child care ministry that cares for children who are less than twelve (12) months of age shall: ensure that all caregivers of children who are less than twelve (12) months of age follow safe sleeping practices. | 2024-02-22 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-6-14.1(a)(2) When consultant entered the infant room at 9:15 a four month old male was asleep in a crib with a small blanket. Consultant asked caregivers to remove the item from crib. |
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| CCDF Inspection 2023-07-10 |
Sanitation Standards | 2023-07-11 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-3.5-5.5(b) Sanitation Standards |
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| CCDF Inspection 2023-07-10 |
A provider shall provide for a safe environment by ensuring that no conditions exist in or on the grounds of the facility where a provider operates a child care program that would endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the children, including ensuring that the following items are placed in areas that are inaccessible to children in the providers care: Fire arms, ammunition and other weapons Location __________ Poisons, chemicals, bleach cleaning materials and Medications Location __________. | 2023-07-11 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-3.5-11(a) A provider shall provide for a safe environment by ensuring that no conditions exist in or on the grounds of the facility where a provider operates a child care program that would endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the children, including ensuring that the following items are placed in areas that are inaccessible to children in the providers care: Poisons, chemicals, and cleaning materials |
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| Registration 2023-07-10 |
Refrigerator and Freezers. Enough conveniently located refrigeration facilities shall be provided to assure the maintenance of potentially hazardous food at required temperatures during storage. Refrigerators and freezers shall be in good condition, clean, and shall maintain the proper temperatures. Each compartment of the refrigerator and freezer shall be provided with an accurate thermometer, in good position for daily monitoring | 2023-07-04 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-4.5-5(c) No thermometer in the Infant/1's classroom refrigerator. |
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| Registration 2023-07-10 |
All interior surfaces, equipment, materials, furnishings, and objects with which children will come in contact shall be well maintained, in a clean and sanitary condition, and of nontoxic durable construction | 2023-07-28 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-4.5-4(1) Pet bunny in infant/1's classroom. Cage sits directly on the floor. Top was open and the openings in cage small enough for fingers to go through. |
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| Registration 2023-07-10 |
Handwashing. Adults and children shall wash their hands after using the toilet and before eating | 2023-07-11 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-4.5-6(b) Child's hand's not washed after diaper change in infant/1's room. |
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| Registration 2023-07-10 |
Diapers. The diapering process shall be done on a table, in a clean and sanitary manner. The diaper changing surface shall be sanitized after each use and materials used for skin cleansing shall be discarded after each use into a tightly covered, easily sanitized container. Individuals responsible for diaper changing shall wash their hands after each diaper change | 2023-07-11 |
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Type of correction needed:
470 IAC 3-4.5-6(d) Diaper pad not sanitized between diaper changes in infant/1's room. |
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| CCDF Inspection 2023-06-07 |
Each childcare provider has provided evidence that they have not been named in the State Central Registry IC31-33-18. | 2023-06-12 |
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Type of correction needed:
IC 12-17.2-3.5-4.1 Each childcare provider has provided evidence that they have not been named in the State Central Registry IC31-33-18. |
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Our time with Vine started out great but ended terribly.
I enrolled S (my granddaughter) into The Vine Early Learning, Inc. in Angola about a year ago. She was recently expelled by Vine’s new director, Whitney Collins Welling, without warning or any reason I could ascertain. S’s teacher was shocked. She said she didn’t think she’d ever made an entry regarding behavior into S's file. Nobody at the facility knew what was happening or why.
Vine’s parent handbook details specific steps and tools they expect their caregivers and director to employ before resorting to expulsion. The director didn’t use any of them. She didn’t follow even the most basic directive given; to “communicate with the parents to help the child to limit or eliminate the use of suspension or expulsion”.
She wouldn’t talk to me, said I didn’t have the legal authority to communicate with her (she refused to recognize the legal paperwork in her possession). She also demanded to be given a court order proving S’s parent had legal custody of their children.
When S’s teacher, the lead teacher of the Primary room, asked why S was terminated and expressed disagreement with the decision, the director fired her.*
An additional week's tuition was charged to S’s account and legal action was threatened if it wasn’t paid immediately, even though S wouldn't be there and WAS EXPELLED.
When S’s parent asked for their $150 deposit back, the director replied:
“As outlined in the Parent Handbook, the deposit will be forfeited if no two weeks’ notice is given from parents. The Vine provides a service and is under no contractual obligation to return payment in which you feel entitled.”
A purposeful misrepresentation of Vine’s rules regarding the refundable deposit paid upon enrollment as she was the party discontinuing services.
We tried contacting John Mueller, the board president of Vine and lead pastor of Sonlight Community Church, which Vine is a part of, but he never responded to any of our phone calls or emails.
S *loved* Vine. She loved her teacher, her friends, and their class pet, Buster the guinea pig (the director got rid of Buster, too). I had to find a way to explain to her why she suddenly won’t be going back to school or see her friends and teacher anymore. She brings them up in conversation all the time.
In the end, the director never divulged why she expelled S. She also ignored requests for the contents of S’s school file (something the handbook claims is “always available to parents/guardians”).
Think twice before you trust this place, this -person-, with your child. It's my opinion she should not be in a position governing children.
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*That teacher was very well-educated, well trained, even tempered, and amazing with the kids. She was a great asset and lucky catch for Vine. Finding people to work in a daycare is always difficult, Vine’s never going to get someone of that caliber again, especially in today’s candidate-driven market.