Incident investigation·August 6, 2025

On August 6, 2025, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Garcia made an unannounced case management visit to the child day care facility listed above and met with Assistant Director, Katia Escobar and later joined by Rossana Broll. Purpose of the visit was explained to the director. The case management visit is from a self reported incident that occurred on 07/14/2025. The facility had 21 children and 4 teachers supervising the children in three rooms in the Omega building during the visit. The day of the incident, July 14, 2025, a child was left alone in the playground during the transition period. Per staff, approximately 5-7 minutes later, the mother of the child arrived to pick up the child and observed her child crying alone in the playground. The mother brought the child back inside the facility and spoke with the staff members. LPA Garcia interviewed the directors and staff members from Ladybugs and Bees classroom regarding the incident. According to Katia, they decided to put a teacher from the Ladybugs classroom on administrative leave and was terminated on 08/5/2025. The other teacher leading the line in the Bees classroom was given written warning. Based on the interviews conducted by LPA, the child being left alone at the playground presented lack of supervision. The facility provided documents entailing the training with all staff for active supervision and changes in procedures during transition periods. Type A Deficiency for Lack of Supervision. Deficiency issued today will also be cleared. 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 Assistant Director, Katia Escobar.