Routine inspection (3-year)·April 15, 2025

On 4/15/2025 at 1:00pm, Licensing Program Analysts (LPAs) Catherine Fernandes and Mario Caro met with Licensees Rita Ferrando and Jorge Lima for a Required 3-year Inspection . Present during the inspection were two infants and eight preschoolers in care with two additional fingerprint cleared adults. Residing in the home are the Licensees and their finger print cleared adult son. Licensee’s home was toured for a health and safety inspection. The facility operates 7:00am – 6:00pm, Monday - Friday. The home is a two story house that consists of four bedrooms and two and half bathrooms. The entrance to the day care is the front door. The home has age-appropriate materials and toys for the children. All toxins, cleaning products, medications, and hazardous materials were observed to be in inaccessible areas. During today’s inspection, LPAs observed the following precautions there are gates for the off limit areas, the top and bottom of the stairs have gates to prevent a fall. There is a fireplace in the living room that was observed to be covered during today’s inspections. Licensee Ferrando stated there are no firearms in the home. LPAs did not observe a body of water in or around the home. ON LIMITS AREA: includes the living room, dining room , family room, garage (play room), bathroom (next to the kitchen), the room to the left of the front door, and the backyard. OFF LIMITS AREA: the entire 2 nd floor, the left side of the of the backyard when facing the house which will be inaccessible by closed and/or locked doors or v isual supervision, and the kitchen. ISOLATION AREA: the nap room Report continues on 809C The home has a fully charged 3A-40-BC fire extinguisher, a working smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector all located in the kitchen. Licensee has a working telephone, a pull down fire alarm next to the garage and all required forms are posted and visible for public view in the childcare room. The licensee conducts and documents fire and disaster drills twice a year with the last one conducted on 3/4/25. The Licensee's CPR and First Aid certificate is current and expires on 9/25. The Licensees were reminded of the responsibility as a mandated reporter and has provided proof of the required training for all people caring for children which was conducted on 6/14/24 . LPA Caro reviewed six children’s files and LPA Fernandes reviewed three staff files. Licensee was reminded the importance of maintaining a current facility roster to reflect what is happening in the home. The licensee is incompliance with the immunization law. LPAs discussed the safe sleep regulations with licensee and discussed the Child Care Licensing Safe Sleep web page at https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/child-care-licensing/public-information-andresources/safe-sleep as an additional resource. LPA also informed licensee of the importance of checking for recalled infant devices on the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) website at https://www.cpsc.gov/ and recommended they register all infant devices with the CPSC to be notified of any recalls on their purchased equipment. Licensee was reminded that all adults 18 and over living or working in the home, including employees and volunteers, except as specified in Health and Safety Code section 1596.871, must obtain a criminal record clearance or exemption, or transfer their existing clearance or exemption, prior to initial presence in a licensed Family Child Care Home. A civil penalty of $100.00 minimum/day for a maximum of 5 days or, if the penalty is for a repeat violation, for a maximum of 30 days per person will be assessed if this regulation is violated. Incidental Medical Services (IMS) policy was discussed. For IMS information see PIN 22-02CCP. When any IMS is provided, a Plan for Providing IMS must be submitted to the Department. The following information regarding ADA was provided: US Department of Justice (USDOJ) toll-free ADA Information Line at (800) 514-0301 (voice)/ (800) 514-0383 (TTY) REPORT CONTINUES ON 809C. Licensee was informed of the MyChildCarePlan.org website; a consumer education website that helps families obtain childcare by connecting them to childcare providers and Resource and Referral Agencies (R&Rs) throughout California. During the exit interview, the Licensee, confirmed that there are no Registered Sex Offenders living in the facility and LPA completed the RSO profile in FAS. To improve the quality and value of the new inspection process, a survey may be sent to the email address provided. Please complete the survey and share your inspection experience. If you have any questions regarding the process or CARE tools, please send email inquiries to inspectionprocess@dss.ca.gov. For additional information regarding the inspection and its tools and methods, please visit the Program website at www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/community-care-licensing/inspection-process . Please submit the following to the office: - updated LIC999 facility sketch to show the on and off areas of the home No deficiencies were cited during today's inspections A notice of site visit was given and must remain posted for 30 days. Exit interview conducted and report was reviewed with the Licensee Ferrando Report and Notice of site visit provided.