Incident investigation·November 15, 2021

On 11/15/2021 @ 10:50 a.m., Licensing Program Analysts, Joelle Redding and Daniel Pena, made an unannounced Case Management visit to complete the evaluation of the self reported incident that occurred on 11/1/2021. During today's visit, LPAs spoke with children and Director for final follow up. Based on the evaluation of the circumstances surrounding the incident on 11/1/2021, staff physically restrained a child by sitting on the floor with arms around the child and legs over the child's legs, for a period of approximately 2 to 5 minutes as the child was throwing toys around the room, kicking and not responding to verbal direction. The child did not sustain any physical harm. There were three other children present in the room at the time of the incident. A Type A deficiency will be cited on the accompanying LIC 809D. Note: Per Assembly Bill 633 (Parent Notification Requirements) the facility is to provide a copy of this Licensing Report to the parents of all children currently enrolled as well as any children newly enrolled over the next 12 month period. Parents are to sign form LIC 9224, Acknowledgment of Receipt of Licensing Reports and the form is to be kept in each child's file for Licensing's review. In addition, this Licensing report is to be posted along with the Notice of Site Visit for 30 days.