Incident investigation·August 14, 2024

On August 14, 2024, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Garcia made an unannounced case management visit to the child day care facility listed above and met with Site Supervisor, Alida Leon. Purpose of the visit was explained to the director. The case management visit is from a self reported incident that occurred on 7/30/2024. The facility had 31 children and 13 teachers supervising the children in three rooms during the visit. The day of the incident, July 30, 2024, the student shared with her grandmother that teacher from room 4 allegedly put her hand on the child's head hard because the child was playing during nap time. According to the report, the student disclosed this incident to the grandmother at pick up time. LPA Garcia interviewed the 2 staff members from room 4 regarding the incident. LPA also obtained a copy of the training that the Site Supervisor went over such as personal rights and writing incident reports. According to Alida, the Human Resources are still in the process of investigating the incident and the teacher in question is still on leave. Based on the interviews and documents obtained and conducted by LPA, children's personal rights were violated. Type B Violation for violating child's Personal Rights. A copy of this report was given to the Licensee and a site visit notification must be posted for 30 days. Failure to comply with posting requirements shall result in an immediate civil penalty of $100. Exit interview was conducted and report was reviewed with Site Supervisor, Alida Leon.