• Violation

  R 400.8125 · R 400.8125 Staff; volunteer; requirements. (1) All staff and volunteers shall provide appropriate care and supervision of children at all times.

  On 09/30/2022, I completed an unannounced onsite inspection at the Cardinal Center Day Care. I met with Assistant, Melissa Delong who reported the program director Justin Diegel was not present today. I was taken to the infant room and requested all child information cards for those in the infant and preschool room. On 09/30/2022, I met with and conducted an interview with child care staff member 1, Katie Tobey, who is the lead teacher for the infant room. Ms. Tobey has worked at the center for two and a half years. She is the lead and has been the lead her entire time employed. She has different assistants who come into the classroom. She has not had any incidents where children are being hurt or injured with marks or bruises. If a child does have an incident, they fill out the incident report and provide it to the family. On 09/30/2022, I conducted an interview with child care staff member 2, Debra Erbacher. She is an assistant and has worked at the center since August 2022. She has previously worked in a different child care center. She was provided training regarding how to close for preschool room, afterschool room, diaper changes, and Brightwheel. They do a lot of on-the-job training. She normally starts in the infant room in the morning and will sometimes cover breaks in the preschool and GSRP room, also covering their lunches. In the preschool room they work with the children to keep their hands to themselves. There is one child in particular who is a little bit more of a challenge. Child E has a difficult time with sharing and tends to be in the middle of arguments over things. He has come a long way and is a work in progress but has made great strides. She believes the child care staff members are appropriately supervising the room and ensuring no child is being hurt. They spend a lot of time helping children use their words and talk through any conflict that happens. On 09/30/2022, I conducted an interview of child care staff member 4, Jaclynn Mead who is the lead in the preschool room. There is a few children in the preschool room who could be having issues. If someone gets hurt, they fill out incident reports, if there is not a mark or injury, they do not normally fill out an incident report. If this had come in last year, she could see it being about Child E, he is a pretty big two and half year old. He had a lot of issues last year, but this year they have seen 4 improvement in his behavior and issues at school. She believes he probably needs an evaluation by a doctor for possible autism or ADHD, but that is not up to her. They try to be supportive to all parents and give advice or seek advice on how to handle children in the classroom when they are having issues. The more they know about a child and their challenges the more they can help the child. There are other children who get excited easily and have to be reminded to not be so touchy and to keep their hands to themselves. She believes throughout the week they might have 10 incident reports, spread out between the children. She is not sure if that is a lot or not, this is the only daycare she has worked at. They spend a lot of time redirecting children in this age group. She believes the high number of children and low number of staff can be difficult as well. Most of the children enrolled in the program have a parent who is employed by the school district. Of the 16 total enrolled, 13 have parents who are employed by the school district. They have one child, Child B, who is also accident prone, she is one of the youngest in the classroom, her parent is not employed by the school district. She feels like they address all the issues in the classroom regardless of whether a parent works for the school district or not. On 09/30/2022, I conducted an interview with child care staff member 5, Autumn Taylor. She has been working for three years. She works in the preschool rom primarily. She has previously floated in the infant and GSRP room as needed. She will be

Children in the Infant and Preschool room are not being supervised and receiving injuries. Children are not having their diapers changed frequently enough.

Disposition: Substantiated