Description: The YWCA of WNY Early Childhood Centers are designed to encourage each child's emotional, social, intellectual, creative, cultural and physical development in a safe, nurturing, anti-bias environment. We believe that children learn best by being active participants in hands-on, explorative active activities. The centers are licensed though the NYS Department of Social Services and serve children 6 weeks to 5 years.
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| Date | Type | Regulations | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-14 | Violation | 418-1.8(k)(7)(ii) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: for a child of school-age through the age of 9 years old: the maximum group size is twenty children. | |||
| 2021-11-02 | Violation | 418-1.4(d) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: All fire alarm and detection systems must be inspected, tested and maintained in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State or other applicable fire and building codes when the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State is not applicable. | |||
| 2021-11-02 | Violation | 418-1.4(d) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: All fire alarm and detection systems must be inspected, tested and maintained in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State or other applicable fire and building codes when the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State is not applicable. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.8(a) | 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. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.8(b) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.8(l)(7) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, infants may never be mixed with other age groups. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.9(a) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | 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. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | 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. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.10(a) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Any abuse or maltreatment of a child is prohibited. A day care center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by an staff, volunteer or any other person. An abused child or maltreated child means a child defined as an abused child or maltreated child pursuant to Section 412 of the Social Services Law. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | 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: | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.15(b)(14) | 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: | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.8(a) | 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. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.8(b) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children. | |||
| 2021-06-17 | Violation | 418-1.8(l)(7) | Corrected |
| Brief Description: Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, infants may never be mixed with other age groups. | |||
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The staff don’t know what their doing. The CEO tried to raise the rates with 3 days notice. If you read this run far away. People that live in the suburbs should not work in the inner city. I’m glad I got out of that place.
This place is very unprofessional. Teachers are supposed to have an educational background, and they don't. Teacher aides are given the role of teachers instead of hiring people with degrees. There are no lesson plans for students. Students are forced to eat nasty bran cereal in the morning, instead of food that is appealing to little kids. All kids do there is run around a play all day, and have staff yell at them, even the assistant director, and they call themselves an educational daycare. Place does not seem cleaned at all. Students are allowed to come to the daycare with all types of illnesses, which are contagious. Seems poorly managed. Assistant director seems to try and be every ones friend rather than an assistant director.
This daycare is disgusted the staff here is unprofessional my daughter went here had to pull her out because the children there are sick my daughter would come home with all type of illness she even said she seen bugs (roaches) and these people have the nerve to decorate the place gross
i love this daycare my daughter goes to the daycare and she always excited every time we enter there doors never have i had the image of seeing my daughter smile the way she does when she entering or when she sees her teachers just love this daycare i give 10 stars if i could