Follow-up·April 11, 2022

On 4/11/22 at 09:20 a.m., Antonio Almanza, Licensing Program Analysts, conducted an unannounced visit for the purpose of clearing Plan of Corrections (POCs) for citations issues on 03/30/2022. LPA met with the Director Magaly Zuniga, explained the purpose of the visit, and toured that facility. During today’s visit there were 1 adults providing care and supervision to 7 children in care. Corrections for 9 violations have been cleared and POC letters were provided for this violation. The facility has not corrected the following 4 violations by the POC due date. The following repeat violations are being cited under Title 22 Regulations, Division 12, Chapter 1, of the California Code of Regulations, and Health & Safety Code (please see LIC 809-Ds for cited deficiencies). 1. 101215.1(d) Child Care Center Directors Qualifications and Duties, The child care center director, or the substitute director as specified in (f) below, shall be on the premises during the hours the center is in operation. Based on observation and records review, The Licensee does not have a Director assigned to the Facility During all hours of operation. During todays visit when LPA arrived to the Center their was no Director on site. The Director was at the Columbus location assisting the teacher of the preschool classroom. 2. 101215.1(c) Child Care Center Directors Qualifications and Duties, The child care center director shall be responsible for the operation of the center, for compliance with regulations, and for communications with the Department... The Licensee does not have an actual Director During the Day, Evening, and Night programs. The Assigned Directors during these times, are classroom teachers, and are assigned to classrooms. Pg 1 of 4 3. Per Stipulation; Waiver and Order, Licensee shall provide 24 hours of quarterly training to staff on mental health assessments, client behaviors, personal rights, care and supervision, and medication and keep a record of staff who attend such training and make records available to Licensing. The records that have been submitted to the Office do not meet the training requirements of the Stipulation. 4. Per Stipulation no employee shall work more than eight (8) hours per day. Director did not provide a Mitigation Plan demonstrating how the facility will ensure to be fully staffed at all times and that no employee shall work more than eight (8) hours per day. Staff are reporting that they are working over time and sometimes do no have someone to relieve them for breaks. During today’s visit Four (4) Civil penalties for failure to correct POCs were issued. Please see LIC421FCs A copy of this Report (809 & 809Ds) and appeal rights were explained and provided to the Director Magaly Zuniga. This report shall be made available to the public upon request. LIC 9213 Notice of Site Visit was provided and required to be posted for 30 days. Pg 2 of 4