Incident investigation·July 30, 2025

On 07/30/2025, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Justeene Tamayo met with Lead Teacher Jardi Solares, who granted access to the facility. The purpose of the inspection was to conduct an unannounced case management inspection for a UIR received at Palmdale RO on 07/07/2025. LPA disclosed the purpose of the inspection. Upon arrival, there were 19 infants in care, along with 8 staff providing care and supervision. Description of incident: On 06/05/25, Director had called parent #1 because child #1 had missed a couple of days from school. Upon speaking with parent #1, Director found out that child had not been to school because of accusations of Teacher #1. Parent #1 stated she saw Teacher #1 slap the hand of child #1 during pick up time. LPA Tamayo conducted interviews with staff involved, however Teacher #1 was not present during the time of inspection. A follow up case management-incident inspection will be conducted at a later date to obtain additional information. An exit interview was conducted, and a copy of this report was read and provided to Lead Teacher, along with a copy of the Notice of Site Visit.