10A NCAC 09 .1803 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: KAORU EDDINS Operation Type: Center Case Number: 0126-174L Visit Date: 1/29/2026 Number Present: 30 Completed Date: 1/29/2026 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 143 Time In: 01:52 PM Time Out: 04:15 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Self Report Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to obtain information related to a self-report received by the divison. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by me, Kaoru Eddins, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Betsy Apel, Program Coordinator during the visit. Bridget Owen, Child Care Consultant, accompanied me during today’s visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site with you. Ms. Apel and Jessica LiBasci, Program Coordinator, were on-site and available to answer and ask questions. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history is ninety (90%) as of 01/26/2026. The facility operates with a four-star license issued on 8/4/2022, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. The Special Services/Restrictions includes: Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The report was received by the Division of Child Development and Early Education on 01/20/2026 and sent to me on 01/20/2026. There is concern of prohibited discipline. The summary of the incident is as follows: Based on information obtained by the Division on January 20, 2026, The concern occurred on January 12, 2026, a staff member placed two (2) children on the ground in a rough manner on the playground and issued a time-out. When one child attempted to leave the area, the same staff member reportedly grabbed the child’s ankle and pulled the child back into the time-out area. The Division interviewed the lead teacher involved in the incident. The lead teacher stated that he/she placed a child, two (2) years of age, in an aggressive manner against the fence on the playground. The lead teacher reported that he/she intervened after a child pushed another child who was riding in a toy vehicle, which caused the toy vehicle to tip over. The lead teacher stated that he/she approached the child who pushed the toy vehicle, pulled the child by the hand, and led him/her to the fenced area. The lead teacher then picked the child up by the torso and placed the child on the ground. Although the cell phone video footage was not entirely clear, we were able to observe the manner in which the child was placed on the ground. The footage appears to show the child being placed on the ground with force and speed. Additionally, the lead teacher stated that the same child attempted to get up twice while in time-out against the fence. Each time the child stood up, the lead teacher picked the child up by the torso. The lead teacher stated that when the child was picked up, the child began kicking. The lead teacher then stopped attempting to lift the child, sat on a tire near the fence, and restrained the child from behind by wrapping an arm around the child’s torso while seated. The lead teacher reported that once the child was calm, he/she placed the child on his/her lap and discussed appropriate behaviors. According to the lead teacher, the incident — from the time the child pushed the toy vehicle to the end of the discussion about behavior — lasted approximately five (5) minutes. We observed the lead teacher. There were three (3) children, all two (2) years of age, with the lead teacher. One (1) child was sitting at the table, and two (2) children were in the bathroom with the lead teacher. The teacher aided the children in using the bathroom and changed their pull-ups. After the use of bathroom and handwashing, the children sat at the table, while the lead teacher pulled the thermos out of the refrigerator and placed them on the tables. Children bring their own snacks from home. One (1) child had apple sauce pouch and raspberry yogurt, one (1) child had crackers and cheese puffs and the other child had cookies. One (1) child reached out and asked for a motorcycle toy on the shelf. The lead teacher used positive tones, if and then phrases to guide the child. No aggressive physical contact was observed. Based on the interview and video footage, it was determined that the incident of prohibited discpline did occur on January 12, 2026. A lead teacher used aggressive manners to place a child in a sitting position against the fence. The following violation was cited during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 904 A child was handled in a rough way, including shaking, pushing, shoving, pinching, slapping, biting, kicking, or spanking. A lead teacher picked a child, who was two (2) years of age, by torso and placed the child on the ground aggressively from height and speed on the playground on January 12, 2026. .1803(a)(1) 1877 A child was restrained as a form of discipline. A child who was two (2) years of age, was restrained to stay in time-out position by a lead teacher on the playground on January 12, 2026. .1803(a)(10) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Item # 0904: A child must be handled in a caring manner. To achieve compliance: The provider shall ensure that all children are handled in a safe and appropriate manner at all times and that no form of rough handling or physical discipline is used. All staff must be trained and monitored on positive behavior guidance techniques to prevent recurrence. Time-out should be used to de-escalate situations, not as a form of punishment. Staff members should focus more effort on preventive strategies rather than reactive discipline. The environment should be arranged to help prevent challenging behaviors. This may include reviewing rules with children, providing multiple sets of the same materials to reduce conflict, giving frequent reminders, and ensuring staff remain close to children who need additional guidance. It is important that children are aware of rules and expectations before incidents occur. When an incident does occur, staff should recognize it as a teachable moment rather than a time for punishment. Time-outs should be used to help de-escalate by briefly separating children and allowing them time and space to calm down. Once everyone is calm, staff should review expectations and provide guidance on how to handle similar situations more appropriately in the future. Visual supports are recommended for younger children. Staff members should seek assistance when they feel emotionally overwhelmed or unable to manage a situation calmly. Ongoing administrative oversight, additional training, and collaboration among staff are effective strategies for strengthening practice. Item #1877: restrain as a form of discipline A child must be restrained only for the safety reason for a brief period. Immediately when there are no additional safety concerns, the child must be let go. Restraint should not be used lightly or in the form of discipline but only when children are in danger of physical harm. Immediately after the situation improves, the child should be let go. Positive reinforcement techniques are strongly recommended. Strategies for positive techniques and developmentally appropriate discipline shall be discussed and practiced. Prioritize important developmental milestones for young toddlers and determine developmentally appropriate practice. Achieving Compliance: The facility received a violation regarding discipline today. A follow-up visit will be conducted in the near future to determine if staff are using appropriate discipline per Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .1803 (a) (1). Based on today’s findings, this child care facility received a substantiated complaint regarding prohibited discipline. This may warrant an administrative action as identified by Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2201. Additional monitoring visits may be required. You can include a corrective statement even if FU visit is required. Make sure you follow procedures on receipt of compliance letter if this is included. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: · Facility name · Facility ID# · Date of visit · Violation item number · Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/12/2026. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Kaoru Eddins Po Box 795 Pisgah Forest, NC 28768 Please call me at 828-556-9013, or email kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable to your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and can be a resource for you while you strive to provide a safe and healthy environment for the well-being of young children. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov or 828-556-9013, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

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Category: supervision. Open / not marked corrected.

10A NCAC 09 .2201 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: KAORU EDDINS Operation Type: Center Case Number: 0126-174L Visit Date: 1/29/2026 Number Present: 30 Completed Date: 1/29/2026 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 143 Time In: 01:52 PM Time Out: 04:15 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Self Report Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to obtain information related to a self-report received by the divison. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by me, Kaoru Eddins, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Betsy Apel, Program Coordinator during the visit. Bridget Owen, Child Care Consultant, accompanied me during today’s visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site with you. Ms. Apel and Jessica LiBasci, Program Coordinator, were on-site and available to answer and ask questions. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history is ninety (90%) as of 01/26/2026. The facility operates with a four-star license issued on 8/4/2022, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. The Special Services/Restrictions includes: Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The report was received by the Division of Child Development and Early Education on 01/20/2026 and sent to me on 01/20/2026. There is concern of prohibited discipline. The summary of the incident is as follows: Based on information obtained by the Division on January 20, 2026, The concern occurred on January 12, 2026, a staff member placed two (2) children on the ground in a rough manner on the playground and issued a time-out. When one child attempted to leave the area, the same staff member reportedly grabbed the child’s ankle and pulled the child back into the time-out area. The Division interviewed the lead teacher involved in the incident. The lead teacher stated that he/she placed a child, two (2) years of age, in an aggressive manner against the fence on the playground. The lead teacher reported that he/she intervened after a child pushed another child who was riding in a toy vehicle, which caused the toy vehicle to tip over. The lead teacher stated that he/she approached the child who pushed the toy vehicle, pulled the child by the hand, and led him/her to the fenced area. The lead teacher then picked the child up by the torso and placed the child on the ground. Although the cell phone video footage was not entirely clear, we were able to observe the manner in which the child was placed on the ground. The footage appears to show the child being placed on the ground with force and speed. Additionally, the lead teacher stated that the same child attempted to get up twice while in time-out against the fence. Each time the child stood up, the lead teacher picked the child up by the torso. The lead teacher stated that when the child was picked up, the child began kicking. The lead teacher then stopped attempting to lift the child, sat on a tire near the fence, and restrained the child from behind by wrapping an arm around the child’s torso while seated. The lead teacher reported that once the child was calm, he/she placed the child on his/her lap and discussed appropriate behaviors. According to the lead teacher, the incident — from the time the child pushed the toy vehicle to the end of the discussion about behavior — lasted approximately five (5) minutes. We observed the lead teacher. There were three (3) children, all two (2) years of age, with the lead teacher. One (1) child was sitting at the table, and two (2) children were in the bathroom with the lead teacher. The teacher aided the children in using the bathroom and changed their pull-ups. After the use of bathroom and handwashing, the children sat at the table, while the lead teacher pulled the thermos out of the refrigerator and placed them on the tables. Children bring their own snacks from home. One (1) child had apple sauce pouch and raspberry yogurt, one (1) child had crackers and cheese puffs and the other child had cookies. One (1) child reached out and asked for a motorcycle toy on the shelf. The lead teacher used positive tones, if and then phrases to guide the child. No aggressive physical contact was observed. Based on the interview and video footage, it was determined that the incident of prohibited discpline did occur on January 12, 2026. A lead teacher used aggressive manners to place a child in a sitting position against the fence. The following violation was cited during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 904 A child was handled in a rough way, including shaking, pushing, shoving, pinching, slapping, biting, kicking, or spanking. A lead teacher picked a child, who was two (2) years of age, by torso and placed the child on the ground aggressively from height and speed on the playground on January 12, 2026. .1803(a)(1) 1877 A child was restrained as a form of discipline. A child who was two (2) years of age, was restrained to stay in time-out position by a lead teacher on the playground on January 12, 2026. .1803(a)(10) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Item # 0904: A child must be handled in a caring manner. To achieve compliance: The provider shall ensure that all children are handled in a safe and appropriate manner at all times and that no form of rough handling or physical discipline is used. All staff must be trained and monitored on positive behavior guidance techniques to prevent recurrence. Time-out should be used to de-escalate situations, not as a form of punishment. Staff members should focus more effort on preventive strategies rather than reactive discipline. The environment should be arranged to help prevent challenging behaviors. This may include reviewing rules with children, providing multiple sets of the same materials to reduce conflict, giving frequent reminders, and ensuring staff remain close to children who need additional guidance. It is important that children are aware of rules and expectations before incidents occur. When an incident does occur, staff should recognize it as a teachable moment rather than a time for punishment. Time-outs should be used to help de-escalate by briefly separating children and allowing them time and space to calm down. Once everyone is calm, staff should review expectations and provide guidance on how to handle similar situations more appropriately in the future. Visual supports are recommended for younger children. Staff members should seek assistance when they feel emotionally overwhelmed or unable to manage a situation calmly. Ongoing administrative oversight, additional training, and collaboration among staff are effective strategies for strengthening practice. Item #1877: restrain as a form of discipline A child must be restrained only for the safety reason for a brief period. Immediately when there are no additional safety concerns, the child must be let go. Restraint should not be used lightly or in the form of discipline but only when children are in danger of physical harm. Immediately after the situation improves, the child should be let go. Positive reinforcement techniques are strongly recommended. Strategies for positive techniques and developmentally appropriate discipline shall be discussed and practiced. Prioritize important developmental milestones for young toddlers and determine developmentally appropriate practice. Achieving Compliance: The facility received a violation regarding discipline today. A follow-up visit will be conducted in the near future to determine if staff are using appropriate discipline per Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .1803 (a) (1). Based on today’s findings, this child care facility received a substantiated complaint regarding prohibited discipline. This may warrant an administrative action as identified by Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2201. Additional monitoring visits may be required. You can include a corrective statement even if FU visit is required. Make sure you follow procedures on receipt of compliance letter if this is included. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: · Facility name · Facility ID# · Date of visit · Violation item number · Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/12/2026. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Kaoru Eddins Po Box 795 Pisgah Forest, NC 28768 Please call me at 828-556-9013, or email kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable to your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and can be a resource for you while you strive to provide a safe and healthy environment for the well-being of young children. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov or 828-556-9013, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

NC GS 110-90 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: KAORU EDDINS Operation Type: Center Case Number: 0126-174L Visit Date: 1/29/2026 Number Present: 30 Completed Date: 1/29/2026 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 143 Time In: 01:52 PM Time Out: 04:15 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Self Report Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to obtain information related to a self-report received by the divison. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by me, Kaoru Eddins, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Betsy Apel, Program Coordinator during the visit. Bridget Owen, Child Care Consultant, accompanied me during today’s visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site with you. Ms. Apel and Jessica LiBasci, Program Coordinator, were on-site and available to answer and ask questions. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history is ninety (90%) as of 01/26/2026. The facility operates with a four-star license issued on 8/4/2022, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. The Special Services/Restrictions includes: Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The report was received by the Division of Child Development and Early Education on 01/20/2026 and sent to me on 01/20/2026. There is concern of prohibited discipline. The summary of the incident is as follows: Based on information obtained by the Division on January 20, 2026, The concern occurred on January 12, 2026, a staff member placed two (2) children on the ground in a rough manner on the playground and issued a time-out. When one child attempted to leave the area, the same staff member reportedly grabbed the child’s ankle and pulled the child back into the time-out area. The Division interviewed the lead teacher involved in the incident. The lead teacher stated that he/she placed a child, two (2) years of age, in an aggressive manner against the fence on the playground. The lead teacher reported that he/she intervened after a child pushed another child who was riding in a toy vehicle, which caused the toy vehicle to tip over. The lead teacher stated that he/she approached the child who pushed the toy vehicle, pulled the child by the hand, and led him/her to the fenced area. The lead teacher then picked the child up by the torso and placed the child on the ground. Although the cell phone video footage was not entirely clear, we were able to observe the manner in which the child was placed on the ground. The footage appears to show the child being placed on the ground with force and speed. Additionally, the lead teacher stated that the same child attempted to get up twice while in time-out against the fence. Each time the child stood up, the lead teacher picked the child up by the torso. The lead teacher stated that when the child was picked up, the child began kicking. The lead teacher then stopped attempting to lift the child, sat on a tire near the fence, and restrained the child from behind by wrapping an arm around the child’s torso while seated. The lead teacher reported that once the child was calm, he/she placed the child on his/her lap and discussed appropriate behaviors. According to the lead teacher, the incident — from the time the child pushed the toy vehicle to the end of the discussion about behavior — lasted approximately five (5) minutes. We observed the lead teacher. There were three (3) children, all two (2) years of age, with the lead teacher. One (1) child was sitting at the table, and two (2) children were in the bathroom with the lead teacher. The teacher aided the children in using the bathroom and changed their pull-ups. After the use of bathroom and handwashing, the children sat at the table, while the lead teacher pulled the thermos out of the refrigerator and placed them on the tables. Children bring their own snacks from home. One (1) child had apple sauce pouch and raspberry yogurt, one (1) child had crackers and cheese puffs and the other child had cookies. One (1) child reached out and asked for a motorcycle toy on the shelf. The lead teacher used positive tones, if and then phrases to guide the child. No aggressive physical contact was observed. Based on the interview and video footage, it was determined that the incident of prohibited discpline did occur on January 12, 2026. A lead teacher used aggressive manners to place a child in a sitting position against the fence. The following violation was cited during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 904 A child was handled in a rough way, including shaking, pushing, shoving, pinching, slapping, biting, kicking, or spanking. A lead teacher picked a child, who was two (2) years of age, by torso and placed the child on the ground aggressively from height and speed on the playground on January 12, 2026. .1803(a)(1) 1877 A child was restrained as a form of discipline. A child who was two (2) years of age, was restrained to stay in time-out position by a lead teacher on the playground on January 12, 2026. .1803(a)(10) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Item # 0904: A child must be handled in a caring manner. To achieve compliance: The provider shall ensure that all children are handled in a safe and appropriate manner at all times and that no form of rough handling or physical discipline is used. All staff must be trained and monitored on positive behavior guidance techniques to prevent recurrence. Time-out should be used to de-escalate situations, not as a form of punishment. Staff members should focus more effort on preventive strategies rather than reactive discipline. The environment should be arranged to help prevent challenging behaviors. This may include reviewing rules with children, providing multiple sets of the same materials to reduce conflict, giving frequent reminders, and ensuring staff remain close to children who need additional guidance. It is important that children are aware of rules and expectations before incidents occur. When an incident does occur, staff should recognize it as a teachable moment rather than a time for punishment. Time-outs should be used to help de-escalate by briefly separating children and allowing them time and space to calm down. Once everyone is calm, staff should review expectations and provide guidance on how to handle similar situations more appropriately in the future. Visual supports are recommended for younger children. Staff members should seek assistance when they feel emotionally overwhelmed or unable to manage a situation calmly. Ongoing administrative oversight, additional training, and collaboration among staff are effective strategies for strengthening practice. Item #1877: restrain as a form of discipline A child must be restrained only for the safety reason for a brief period. Immediately when there are no additional safety concerns, the child must be let go. Restraint should not be used lightly or in the form of discipline but only when children are in danger of physical harm. Immediately after the situation improves, the child should be let go. Positive reinforcement techniques are strongly recommended. Strategies for positive techniques and developmentally appropriate discipline shall be discussed and practiced. Prioritize important developmental milestones for young toddlers and determine developmentally appropriate practice. Achieving Compliance: The facility received a violation regarding discipline today. A follow-up visit will be conducted in the near future to determine if staff are using appropriate discipline per Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .1803 (a) (1). Based on today’s findings, this child care facility received a substantiated complaint regarding prohibited discipline. This may warrant an administrative action as identified by Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2201. Additional monitoring visits may be required. You can include a corrective statement even if FU visit is required. Make sure you follow procedures on receipt of compliance letter if this is included. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: · Facility name · Facility ID# · Date of visit · Violation item number · Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/12/2026. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Kaoru Eddins Po Box 795 Pisgah Forest, NC 28768 Please call me at 828-556-9013, or email kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable to your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and can be a resource for you while you strive to provide a safe and healthy environment for the well-being of young children. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at kaoru.eddins@dhhs.nc.gov or 828-556-9013, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0304 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

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10A NCAC 09 .0508 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0604 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0605 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0701 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0803 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0901 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .1102 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .1703 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

G.S. 110-90 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

G.S. 110-91 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

NC GS 110-90 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: MONICA HOUCK Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 12/11/2025 Number Present: 41 Completed Date: 12/11/2025 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 455 Time In: 09:55 AM Time Out: 05:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, a signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Pete Rodewald, Administrator, was on-site and available to answer and ask questions, as well as Stephanie DucHemin and Jessica LiBasci, administrative assistants. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven percent (97%) percent as of 12/10/25. The ownership of the child care facility is Trimont Christian Academy, which is listed as active-current on the North Carolina Secretary of State (NCSOS) website as of today. Permit type – Four Star License dated 8/4/22, capacity of one hundred sixty-five (165) children ages 0-6 years. Special Services/Restrictions – Approved for daytime care only, meets enhanced space, meets reduced ratios. The last fire drill was practiced on 11/24/25. The last lockdown drill was practiced on 11/21/25. The last fire inspection was completed on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/30/25 with three (3) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. Lead water testing was completed on 4/10/24. The lead paint survey and the asbestos survey has not been completed to determine if the facility needs testing for lead based paint or asbestos. The administrator has updated the facility’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan, effective June 2025. There are no infants enrolled. The safe sleep policy was not monitored and the safe sleep checks were not applicable during the visit. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS training. The children were observed during free play, small and large group activities, outdoor play, lunch, and rest time. The lunch today was spaghetti with meat sauce, green beans, mandarin oranges, and milk. There are twenty-one (21) staff, six (6) existing staff, and fifteen (15) new staff. There are fifty-one (51) children enrolled, and five (5) children’s files were monitored. Transportation is not provided or approved. Aquatic activities are not offered. The Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) was used as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were observed during today’s visit: Violation Number Comment Rule 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. There was not a thermometer in the refrigerator in space #103, the classroom with four and five year old children. In space #108, the classroom with two year old children, the refrigerator thermometer did not work; the refrigerator was cold, but the thermometer was reading fifty-eight (58) degrees Fahrenheit. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) 847 Parent's medication authorization did not include required information. There were three (3) diaper creams in space #4, the classroom with one and two year old children, that had a medication authorizations either not signed or not dated. 10A NCAC 09 .0803(4)(6-9) 1032 Child care providers and uncompensated providers who are not substitute providers or volunteers, including the director did not have a medical report on file prior to employment that was signed by a health care professional and/ or the medical report was older than 12 months. Six (6) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed more than twelve (12) months from their dates of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had staff medical reports on file that were completed after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. 10A NCAC 09 .0701(a) 1033 On or before the first day of work, all staff, including the director and individuals who volunteer more than once per week did not provide results indicating that they were free of active TB and/or TB test or screening was older than 12 months. Five (5) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file that were great than twelve (12) months old from their date of hire. Four (4) staff hired in 2025 had negative TB test/screening results on file after their date of hire. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .0701(a) 1041 Prior to employment a Criminal Background Check was not completed. One (1) staff hired on 5/20/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 5/22/25. One (1) staff hired on 9/23/25 did not complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check application process to be issued a qualifying letter until 9/30/25. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) 1065 Child care providers scheduled to work in the infant room, did not complete ITS-SIDS training within two months of employment or did not complete the training every three years. Child care administrators did not complete the ITS-SIDS training within 90 days of employment and every three years thereafter. The administrator does not have valid ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on file. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. .1102(f) 1311 Emergency medical care information was not on file in the center on the child's first day of attendance and/or was not updated as changes occurred or at least annually for each child. One (1) child file with an enrollment date of 11/8/24, did not have emergency medical care information updated annually. .0802(c) 1757 A valid qualification letter was not on file and available to review at the facility. Two (2) staff did not have a DCDEE Criminal Background Check qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Refer to the staff and training worksheets. G.S. 110-90.2(b) & (d) & .2703(e) 1794 A Four- or Five- Star program serving four year old children was not implementing an approved curriculum. The curriculum could not be located during the visit. .2802(d) 1805 A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The child care operator has not notified the Division through the Automated Background Check Management System (ABCMS) portal of the staff that are working at the child care facility. G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Signed statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 12/25/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Monica Houck 151 Creekview Rd Hendersonville, NC 28792 Please call me at 828-243-2154, or email monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Technical Assistance for Compliance – rule references can be found in the cited violations Medication Authorization Form – Item #847 *To achieve compliance, the parents must complete the medication authorization with a signature and date. Without a parent signature, the diaper cream cannot be applied to the child. Without a date, there is no reference for how long the authorization is effective. Refrigerator Thermometers – Item #601 To achieve compliance, working thermometers need to be placed in the refrigerators in spaces #103 and #108, and must read forty-five (45) degrees Fahrenheit or less. It is recommended to have teachers let administration know if they have a refrigerator in their classroom that is not working. Emergency Medical Care Information for Children - Item #1311 To achieve compliance, the parent will need to update the emergency medical care information for the child file. We discussed that you have a place on your current application with emergency medical care information for a parent to update annually. It is recommended to audit children files to determine if other parents need to update the emergency medical care information for their children. You stated you will plan to have parents update in January 2026, then annually in August at the start of the new school year. ITS-SIDS Training – Item #1065 To achieve compliance, the administrator must complete the ITS-SIDS safe sleep training on or before 12/25/25. While the child care facility does not current have any infants enrolled, the age range on the child care license includes infants and an infant can be enrolled at any time. If assistance is needed to locate an ITS-SIDS safe sleep training, please contact the child care consultant or the local child care resource and referral agency. We discussed that infants would be served again in the future. DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) - Items #1041, #1757, and #1805 Item #1041 – To achieve compliance, a plan must be created to state how any new staff will complete the DCDEE Criminal Background Check (CBC) application process prior to employment. You stated that staff were not working with children during the time that their background check was in process. Reminder that the requirement is for the application process to be fully completed and a qualifying letter on file prior to employment. Item #1757 – The two (2) DCDEE CBC qualifying letters are on file and the violation is considered corrected during the visit. Item #1805 - To achieve compliance, the child care staff must be assigned to the child care facility in the ABCMS portal. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) child care operators are to notify the Division of any new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new child care providers working who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-6401 and someone will assist you. Staff Health and Medical Requirements – Items #1032 and #1033 Item #1032 – To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a staff medical report older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated staff medical report completed and on file, and the staff that had a medical report after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their staff medical report on file prior to employment. Item #1033 - To achieve compliance, the staff hired that had a TB test/screening older than twelve (12) months old must have an updated TB test/screening completed and on file, and the staff that had a TB test/screening after their date of hire, a plan must be created to state how new staff will be required to have their TB test/screening on or before the first day of work. Approved Curriculum - Item #1794 To achieve compliance, the curriculum must be name to be verified as approved and the curriculum must be accessible to all teachers working with four year old children to implement. Rated License Consultation: New rated license rules went into effect on 7/1/25. We discussed the new rules are available through DCDEE Moodle and you the program assessment option. The program must maintain a 75% or higher compliance history score to be eligible for a 2-5 star rated license. We discussed you would be choosing the program assessment pathway and referred to the SECTION .3200 - STANDARDS FOR TWO THROUGH FIVE STAR RATED LICENSES. The following would be completed for the program assessment pathway based on star level met. *Enhanced staff/child ratios and/or enhanced space options. *Staff education evaluation of fifty percent (50%) of lead teachers and fifty percent (50%) of other educators. *Evidence of implementing family and community engagement foundational practices. *Evidence of implementing continuous quality improvement plans for the facility and individual staff. *A structured self-study completed by the administrator and lead teacher(s) over three (3) consecutive months using the appropriate program assessment tool and additional resources located at https://ncrlap.org/Resources/, a written reflection of the self-assessment, including identification of goals for continuous quality improvement, and documentation of the structured self-study. *Environment Rating Scale (ERS) assessment using Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3). *Evidence of implementing an approved curriculum with four-year old children. We further discussed there are resources on the ncrlap.org website to assist with the self study. An outreach assessment can be requested directly through the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) and can be used for the self-study. The verification form for the self-study will be reviewed and collected by the child care consultant. It is recommended to start the three month self study as early as January 2026. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submitted an official transcript (if applicable) and applied for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. All staff must have education evaluated by WORKS. Additional resources can be located on the Division’s website. The Initial Application for a Star Rated License is located on the Division’s website under provider forms and documents. The required components of the program assessment pathway are embedded in the rated license application. Curriculum: The curriculum implemented could not be located during the visit. Resources: Southwestern Child Development Commission Child Care Resource and Referral - swcdcinc.org/ North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) – ncrlap.org North Carolina Health and Safety Resource Center – healthychildcare.unc.edu National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education – ncrkids.org Consultation: The Clean Classrooms for Carolina Kids account for the child care facility states “enrollment started” for lead based paint and asbestos. The surveys for the lead based paint and asbestos hazards must be completed in the account. The account would then state “survey review by RTI.” You may be required to upload documents regarding the age of the building to determine if lead based paint testing and/or asbestos testing is needed. During the visit, we discussed the following rules below. 10A NCAC 09 .0508 ACTIVITY SCHEDULES AND PLANS (a) All centers shall have a current schedule and activity plan for each group of children posted for reference by parents and by caregivers. The schedule and activity plan may be combined in a single document. (b) For each group of children in care, the activity plan shall include activities intended to stimulate the following developmental domains, in accordance with North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development, available on the Division's website at http://ncchildcare.nc.gov/providers/pv_foundations.asp: (1) emotional and social development; (2) health and physical development; (3) approaches to play and learning; (4) language development and communication; and (5) cognitive development. (g) The activity plan shall: (1) identify activities that allow children to choose to participate with the whole group, part of the group, or independent of the group; (2) reflect that the children have four different activities daily, at least one of which is outdoors, if weather conditions permit, as listed in G.S. 110-91(12) as follows: (A) art and other creative play; (B) children's books; (C) blocks and block building; (D) manipulatives; and (E) family living and dramatic play; and (3) include a daily gross motor activity that may occur indoors or outdoors. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (e) All electrical appliances shall be used only in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. For appliances with heating elements, such as bottle warmers, crock pots, irons, coffee pots, or curling irons, neither the appliance nor any cord shall be accessible to preschool-age children. 10A NCAC 09 .0605 OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN CHILD CARE CENTERS (i) The outdoor play area shall be protected by a fence. The height shall be a minimum of four feet and the top of the fence shall be free of protrusions. The requirement disallowing protrusions on the tops of fences shall not apply to fences six feet high or above. The fencing shall exclude fixed bodies of water such as ditches, quarries, canals, excavations, and fish ponds. Gates to the fenced outdoor play area shall remain closed while children occupy the area. 10A NCAC 09 .0901 GENERAL NUTRITION REQUIREMENTS (a) Meals and snacks served to children in a child care center shall comply with the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which are based on the recommended nutrient intake judged by the National Research Council to be adequate for maintaining good nutrition. The types of food, number and size of servings shall be appropriate for the ages and developmental levels of the children in care. The Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs are incorporated by reference and include subsequent amendments. A copy of the Meal Patterns for Children in Child Care Programs is available online at https://www.fns.usda.gov/cacfp/meals-and-snacks. (b) When food is prepared by or provided by the center, menus for nutritious meals and snacks shall be planned at least one week in advance. At least one dated copy of the current week's menu shall be posted where it can be seen by parents and food preparation staff when food is prepared or provided by the center. A variety of food shall be included in meals and snacks. Any substitution shall be of comparable food value and shall be recorded on the menu prior to the meal or snack being served. (c) When children bring their own food for meals or snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the nutritional requirements specified in Paragraph (a) of this Rule, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements. (d) A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center as set forth in G.S. 110-91(2)h.1. When a child's parent opts out of the supplemental food provided by the center, the parent shall sign a statement acknowledging the parental decision shall be kept in the child's file at the center and a copy provided to the parent. A child's parent may opt out of the supplemental food provided by the center, subject to the following: (1) the center shall not provide any food or drink so long as the child's parent or guardian provides all meals, snacks, and drinks scheduled to be served at the center's designated times; (2) the ability to opt out of specific meals or days based on menu options is not available; (3) if a child requests specific foods being served to other children, but the parent has opted out, the center shall not serve supplemental food; and (4) if the child's parent or guardian has opted out, but does not provide all meals and snacks for the child, the center shall replace the missing meal or snack as if the child's parent or guardian had not opted out of the supplemental food program. We discussed that a separate visit or virtual meeting may need to be scheduled to determine which spaces continue to be approved and which spaces may no longer be approved. Spaces #106 and #107 are marked as removed from the license space. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at monica.houck@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.243.2154, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0304 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/9/2025 Number Present: 11 Completed Date: 1/9/2025 Age: From 2 To 5 Total Minutes: 330 Time In: 10:00 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by me, Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Peter Rodewald, administrator name, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Today, Peter Rodewald, administrator, accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-two (92) percentage as of 1/6/25. Permit type – Four Star, Issued 8/4/22 Special Services/Restrictions – Daytime Care Only; Meets reduced ratios; Meets enhanced space. The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/18/24. The last fire drill was practiced on 12/19/24. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11/13/24. The last playground inspection was documented on 12/17/24. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 12/19/24 with two (2) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a Center play. Children were building with giant blocks and engaged with the teacher. The class with two-year old children was observed playing in centers and engaged with their teachers. I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The program does not provide transportation. The following violations were documented during today’s visit Violation Number Comment Rule 1851 The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Two (2) children's files did not have the Smoking tobacco restrictions. .0604(j) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Item 1851-The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Make sure that your school packets include your tobacco policies for all parents to sign at the beginning of the year so they are in all children’s files and parents are aware of this policies. Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 1/26/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.Mccrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.Mccrory @dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: As a result of tropical storm Helene and a declared natural disaster in WNC, technical assistance is provided to assist the child care provider in achieving compliance in the following areas: 10A NCAC 09 .0304 ON-GOING REQUIREMENTS FOR A LICENSE The last approved fire inspection was conducted on 10/20/23. A fire inspection is required annually. The original must be sent to the child care consultant within one week of the inspection. Who discussed due to the sudden loss of an administrator and other uncontrolled circumstances. Ms. DucHemin and Ms. LiBasci have come in to take over paperwork and enrollment. Mr. Rodewald remains the Administrator. I answered their questions today and reviewed policies and procedures. We discussed and reviewed staff and training worksheets. We went into detail about what each line meant on the staff and training worksheet and when it is due. We reviewed children’s files and made sure you understood the process. We discussed there is a teacher on site with playground safety and EPR training. We discussed everything was in the teachers’ files but I would make a return visit for them to finish filling in the staff and training work sheet. Lead Paint and Asbestos Testing- In April 2023, North Carolina enacted final rules 10A NCAC 41C .1001-1007 requiring all public schools and child care facilities to: Test for lead in drinking/cooking water (.1005 and .2816), Identify lead-based paint hazards (.1004), Identify asbestos hazards (.1003), Mitigate or restrict access to any identified hazards. Testing is required to be completed by May 31, 2025. Criminal Background Check System (ABCMS)- All child care facility administrators are required to complete the new ABCMS criminal background check portal training on Moodle. Once the training is complete, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to review the staff roster to ensure that all current staff members are listed. When someone is hired or terminated, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to indicate the hire or termination date. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney.McCrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550-7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

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10A NCAC 09 .1102 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/9/2025 Number Present: 11 Completed Date: 1/9/2025 Age: From 2 To 5 Total Minutes: 330 Time In: 10:00 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by me, Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Peter Rodewald, administrator name, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Today, Peter Rodewald, administrator, accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-two (92) percentage as of 1/6/25. Permit type – Four Star, Issued 8/4/22 Special Services/Restrictions – Daytime Care Only; Meets reduced ratios; Meets enhanced space. The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/18/24. The last fire drill was practiced on 12/19/24. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11/13/24. The last playground inspection was documented on 12/17/24. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 12/19/24 with two (2) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a Center play. Children were building with giant blocks and engaged with the teacher. The class with two-year old children was observed playing in centers and engaged with their teachers. I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The program does not provide transportation. The following violations were documented during today’s visit Violation Number Comment Rule 1851 The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Two (2) children's files did not have the Smoking tobacco restrictions. .0604(j) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Item 1851-The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Make sure that your school packets include your tobacco policies for all parents to sign at the beginning of the year so they are in all children’s files and parents are aware of this policies. Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 1/26/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.Mccrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.Mccrory @dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: As a result of tropical storm Helene and a declared natural disaster in WNC, technical assistance is provided to assist the child care provider in achieving compliance in the following areas: 10A NCAC 09 .0304 ON-GOING REQUIREMENTS FOR A LICENSE The last approved fire inspection was conducted on 10/20/23. A fire inspection is required annually. The original must be sent to the child care consultant within one week of the inspection. Who discussed due to the sudden loss of an administrator and other uncontrolled circumstances. Ms. DucHemin and Ms. LiBasci have come in to take over paperwork and enrollment. Mr. Rodewald remains the Administrator. I answered their questions today and reviewed policies and procedures. We discussed and reviewed staff and training worksheets. We went into detail about what each line meant on the staff and training worksheet and when it is due. We reviewed children’s files and made sure you understood the process. We discussed there is a teacher on site with playground safety and EPR training. We discussed everything was in the teachers’ files but I would make a return visit for them to finish filling in the staff and training work sheet. Lead Paint and Asbestos Testing- In April 2023, North Carolina enacted final rules 10A NCAC 41C .1001-1007 requiring all public schools and child care facilities to: Test for lead in drinking/cooking water (.1005 and .2816), Identify lead-based paint hazards (.1004), Identify asbestos hazards (.1003), Mitigate or restrict access to any identified hazards. Testing is required to be completed by May 31, 2025. Criminal Background Check System (ABCMS)- All child care facility administrators are required to complete the new ABCMS criminal background check portal training on Moodle. Once the training is complete, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to review the staff roster to ensure that all current staff members are listed. When someone is hired or terminated, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to indicate the hire or termination date. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney.McCrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550-7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .1703 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/9/2025 Number Present: 11 Completed Date: 1/9/2025 Age: From 2 To 5 Total Minutes: 330 Time In: 10:00 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by me, Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Peter Rodewald, administrator name, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Today, Peter Rodewald, administrator, accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-two (92) percentage as of 1/6/25. Permit type – Four Star, Issued 8/4/22 Special Services/Restrictions – Daytime Care Only; Meets reduced ratios; Meets enhanced space. The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/18/24. The last fire drill was practiced on 12/19/24. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11/13/24. The last playground inspection was documented on 12/17/24. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 12/19/24 with two (2) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a Center play. Children were building with giant blocks and engaged with the teacher. The class with two-year old children was observed playing in centers and engaged with their teachers. I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The program does not provide transportation. The following violations were documented during today’s visit Violation Number Comment Rule 1851 The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Two (2) children's files did not have the Smoking tobacco restrictions. .0604(j) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Item 1851-The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Make sure that your school packets include your tobacco policies for all parents to sign at the beginning of the year so they are in all children’s files and parents are aware of this policies. Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 1/26/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.Mccrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.Mccrory @dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: As a result of tropical storm Helene and a declared natural disaster in WNC, technical assistance is provided to assist the child care provider in achieving compliance in the following areas: 10A NCAC 09 .0304 ON-GOING REQUIREMENTS FOR A LICENSE The last approved fire inspection was conducted on 10/20/23. A fire inspection is required annually. The original must be sent to the child care consultant within one week of the inspection. Who discussed due to the sudden loss of an administrator and other uncontrolled circumstances. Ms. DucHemin and Ms. LiBasci have come in to take over paperwork and enrollment. Mr. Rodewald remains the Administrator. I answered their questions today and reviewed policies and procedures. We discussed and reviewed staff and training worksheets. We went into detail about what each line meant on the staff and training worksheet and when it is due. We reviewed children’s files and made sure you understood the process. We discussed there is a teacher on site with playground safety and EPR training. We discussed everything was in the teachers’ files but I would make a return visit for them to finish filling in the staff and training work sheet. Lead Paint and Asbestos Testing- In April 2023, North Carolina enacted final rules 10A NCAC 41C .1001-1007 requiring all public schools and child care facilities to: Test for lead in drinking/cooking water (.1005 and .2816), Identify lead-based paint hazards (.1004), Identify asbestos hazards (.1003), Mitigate or restrict access to any identified hazards. Testing is required to be completed by May 31, 2025. Criminal Background Check System (ABCMS)- All child care facility administrators are required to complete the new ABCMS criminal background check portal training on Moodle. Once the training is complete, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to review the staff roster to ensure that all current staff members are listed. When someone is hired or terminated, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to indicate the hire or termination date. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney.McCrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550-7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .2830 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/9/2025 Number Present: 11 Completed Date: 1/9/2025 Age: From 2 To 5 Total Minutes: 330 Time In: 10:00 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by me, Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Peter Rodewald, administrator name, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Today, Peter Rodewald, administrator, accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-two (92) percentage as of 1/6/25. Permit type – Four Star, Issued 8/4/22 Special Services/Restrictions – Daytime Care Only; Meets reduced ratios; Meets enhanced space. The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/18/24. The last fire drill was practiced on 12/19/24. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11/13/24. The last playground inspection was documented on 12/17/24. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 12/19/24 with two (2) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a Center play. Children were building with giant blocks and engaged with the teacher. The class with two-year old children was observed playing in centers and engaged with their teachers. I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The program does not provide transportation. The following violations were documented during today’s visit Violation Number Comment Rule 1851 The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Two (2) children's files did not have the Smoking tobacco restrictions. .0604(j) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Item 1851-The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Make sure that your school packets include your tobacco policies for all parents to sign at the beginning of the year so they are in all children’s files and parents are aware of this policies. Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 1/26/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.Mccrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.Mccrory @dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: As a result of tropical storm Helene and a declared natural disaster in WNC, technical assistance is provided to assist the child care provider in achieving compliance in the following areas: 10A NCAC 09 .0304 ON-GOING REQUIREMENTS FOR A LICENSE The last approved fire inspection was conducted on 10/20/23. A fire inspection is required annually. The original must be sent to the child care consultant within one week of the inspection. Who discussed due to the sudden loss of an administrator and other uncontrolled circumstances. Ms. DucHemin and Ms. LiBasci have come in to take over paperwork and enrollment. Mr. Rodewald remains the Administrator. I answered their questions today and reviewed policies and procedures. We discussed and reviewed staff and training worksheets. We went into detail about what each line meant on the staff and training worksheet and when it is due. We reviewed children’s files and made sure you understood the process. We discussed there is a teacher on site with playground safety and EPR training. We discussed everything was in the teachers’ files but I would make a return visit for them to finish filling in the staff and training work sheet. Lead Paint and Asbestos Testing- In April 2023, North Carolina enacted final rules 10A NCAC 41C .1001-1007 requiring all public schools and child care facilities to: Test for lead in drinking/cooking water (.1005 and .2816), Identify lead-based paint hazards (.1004), Identify asbestos hazards (.1003), Mitigate or restrict access to any identified hazards. Testing is required to be completed by May 31, 2025. Criminal Background Check System (ABCMS)- All child care facility administrators are required to complete the new ABCMS criminal background check portal training on Moodle. Once the training is complete, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to review the staff roster to ensure that all current staff members are listed. When someone is hired or terminated, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to indicate the hire or termination date. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney.McCrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550-7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

NC GS 110-90 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/9/2025 Number Present: 11 Completed Date: 1/9/2025 Age: From 2 To 5 Total Minutes: 330 Time In: 10:00 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by me, Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Peter Rodewald, administrator name, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site for you. Today, Peter Rodewald, administrator, accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-two (92) percentage as of 1/6/25. Permit type – Four Star, Issued 8/4/22 Special Services/Restrictions – Daytime Care Only; Meets reduced ratios; Meets enhanced space. The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/18/24. The last fire drill was practiced on 12/19/24. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11/13/24. The last playground inspection was documented on 12/17/24. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/15/25. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 12/19/24 with two (2) demerits for a Superior classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a Center play. Children were building with giant blocks and engaged with the teacher. The class with two-year old children was observed playing in centers and engaged with their teachers. I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The program does not provide transportation. The following violations were documented during today’s visit Violation Number Comment Rule 1851 The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Two (2) children's files did not have the Smoking tobacco restrictions. .0604(j) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Item 1851-The operator did not notify the parent of each child enrolled in writing of the smoking and tobacco restriction. Make sure that your school packets include your tobacco policies for all parents to sign at the beginning of the year so they are in all children’s files and parents are aware of this policies. Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 1/26/25. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.Mccrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.Mccrory @dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive it by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt is within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: As a result of tropical storm Helene and a declared natural disaster in WNC, technical assistance is provided to assist the child care provider in achieving compliance in the following areas: 10A NCAC 09 .0304 ON-GOING REQUIREMENTS FOR A LICENSE The last approved fire inspection was conducted on 10/20/23. A fire inspection is required annually. The original must be sent to the child care consultant within one week of the inspection. Who discussed due to the sudden loss of an administrator and other uncontrolled circumstances. Ms. DucHemin and Ms. LiBasci have come in to take over paperwork and enrollment. Mr. Rodewald remains the Administrator. I answered their questions today and reviewed policies and procedures. We discussed and reviewed staff and training worksheets. We went into detail about what each line meant on the staff and training worksheet and when it is due. We reviewed children’s files and made sure you understood the process. We discussed there is a teacher on site with playground safety and EPR training. We discussed everything was in the teachers’ files but I would make a return visit for them to finish filling in the staff and training work sheet. Lead Paint and Asbestos Testing- In April 2023, North Carolina enacted final rules 10A NCAC 41C .1001-1007 requiring all public schools and child care facilities to: Test for lead in drinking/cooking water (.1005 and .2816), Identify lead-based paint hazards (.1004), Identify asbestos hazards (.1003), Mitigate or restrict access to any identified hazards. Testing is required to be completed by May 31, 2025. Criminal Background Check System (ABCMS)- All child care facility administrators are required to complete the new ABCMS criminal background check portal training on Moodle. Once the training is complete, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to review the staff roster to ensure that all current staff members are listed. When someone is hired or terminated, the administrator will need to log into the ABCMS system to indicate the hire or termination date. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any monitoring visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney.McCrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550-7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0604 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/18/2024 Number Present: 8 Completed Date: 1/18/2024 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 285 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Jordan Scott, Director, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site and electronically emailed you. Today, the accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety (90) percentage as of 1/18/24. Permit type – Four Star Special Services/Restrictions – Meets Reduced Ratios; Meets enhanced space The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23 The last fire drill was practiced on 12-13-23. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11-29-23. The last playground inspection was documented on 1/7/23. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/18/24. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/7/23 with eight (8) demerits for a Superiot classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a healthy lunch and engaged in conversation with their teacher. The class with one-year old children was observed taking a nap on cots. All children were resting, and teacher was positioned where she could see all I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were documented during today’s visit. Violation Number Comment Rule 812 Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) 862 The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. 10A NCAC 09 .0802(a) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Electrical Outlets Item 812- Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Note: Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. According to 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (c) When not in use, electrical outlets and power strips located in space used by children shall have safety outlets or be covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Item 0862 - The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Note: Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. According 10A NCAC 09 .0802 EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE (a) Each child care center shall have a written plan that sets forth the steps to follow in the event of a child medical emergency. The plan shall be reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan is revised. This plan shall give the procedures to be followed to ensure that any child who becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention while in care at the center receives appropriate medical attention. The following information shall be included in the center's emergency medical care plan: Corrective Action Plan: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/1/24. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.McCrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville, NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: We discussed the North Carolina Division of Early Education Provider page and how to access documents, training, and what’s new. We discussed ways to label ointment that is sent by a parent and that I would do some research and get back to you with exact detail. For now, it should be labeled with ingredients and kept locked. Include and medical form with the parents’ signature. We discussed ways to keep files and staff and training worksheets up to date. We discussed I will come back if you would like more T.A. as a new director. We discussed K.M. needs to updated Criminal Background by 4/10/24. We discussed J. S. has Health And Safety due by March 2024. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Stabilization Grant, please contact Kaitlyn Marshall, Child Care Consultant, at 828-713-8192 or email kaitlyn.marshall@dhhs.nc.gov. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 MAINTAINING THE STAR RATING (a)A representative of the Division may make announced or unannounced visits to facilities to assess on-going compliance with the requirements of a star rating after it has been issued. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Failure to maintain the same education point level may result in a violation of the above rule reference and may result in a reduction of stars. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney,mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

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10A NCAC 09 .0304 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/18/2024 Number Present: 8 Completed Date: 1/18/2024 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 285 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Jordan Scott, Director, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site and electronically emailed you. Today, the accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety (90) percentage as of 1/18/24. Permit type – Four Star Special Services/Restrictions – Meets Reduced Ratios; Meets enhanced space The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23 The last fire drill was practiced on 12-13-23. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11-29-23. The last playground inspection was documented on 1/7/23. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/18/24. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/7/23 with eight (8) demerits for a Superiot classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a healthy lunch and engaged in conversation with their teacher. The class with one-year old children was observed taking a nap on cots. All children were resting, and teacher was positioned where she could see all I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were documented during today’s visit. Violation Number Comment Rule 812 Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) 862 The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. 10A NCAC 09 .0802(a) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Electrical Outlets Item 812- Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Note: Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. According to 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (c) When not in use, electrical outlets and power strips located in space used by children shall have safety outlets or be covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Item 0862 - The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Note: Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. According 10A NCAC 09 .0802 EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE (a) Each child care center shall have a written plan that sets forth the steps to follow in the event of a child medical emergency. The plan shall be reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan is revised. This plan shall give the procedures to be followed to ensure that any child who becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention while in care at the center receives appropriate medical attention. The following information shall be included in the center's emergency medical care plan: Corrective Action Plan: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/1/24. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.McCrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville, NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: We discussed the North Carolina Division of Early Education Provider page and how to access documents, training, and what’s new. We discussed ways to label ointment that is sent by a parent and that I would do some research and get back to you with exact detail. For now, it should be labeled with ingredients and kept locked. Include and medical form with the parents’ signature. We discussed ways to keep files and staff and training worksheets up to date. We discussed I will come back if you would like more T.A. as a new director. We discussed K.M. needs to updated Criminal Background by 4/10/24. We discussed J. S. has Health And Safety due by March 2024. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Stabilization Grant, please contact Kaitlyn Marshall, Child Care Consultant, at 828-713-8192 or email kaitlyn.marshall@dhhs.nc.gov. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 MAINTAINING THE STAR RATING (a)A representative of the Division may make announced or unannounced visits to facilities to assess on-going compliance with the requirements of a star rating after it has been issued. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Failure to maintain the same education point level may result in a violation of the above rule reference and may result in a reduction of stars. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney,mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0604 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/18/2024 Number Present: 8 Completed Date: 1/18/2024 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 285 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Jordan Scott, Director, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site and electronically emailed you. Today, the accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety (90) percentage as of 1/18/24. Permit type – Four Star Special Services/Restrictions – Meets Reduced Ratios; Meets enhanced space The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23 The last fire drill was practiced on 12-13-23. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11-29-23. The last playground inspection was documented on 1/7/23. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/18/24. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/7/23 with eight (8) demerits for a Superiot classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a healthy lunch and engaged in conversation with their teacher. The class with one-year old children was observed taking a nap on cots. All children were resting, and teacher was positioned where she could see all I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were documented during today’s visit. Violation Number Comment Rule 812 Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) 862 The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. 10A NCAC 09 .0802(a) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Electrical Outlets Item 812- Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Note: Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. According to 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (c) When not in use, electrical outlets and power strips located in space used by children shall have safety outlets or be covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Item 0862 - The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Note: Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. According 10A NCAC 09 .0802 EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE (a) Each child care center shall have a written plan that sets forth the steps to follow in the event of a child medical emergency. The plan shall be reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan is revised. This plan shall give the procedures to be followed to ensure that any child who becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention while in care at the center receives appropriate medical attention. The following information shall be included in the center's emergency medical care plan: Corrective Action Plan: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/1/24. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.McCrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville, NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: We discussed the North Carolina Division of Early Education Provider page and how to access documents, training, and what’s new. We discussed ways to label ointment that is sent by a parent and that I would do some research and get back to you with exact detail. For now, it should be labeled with ingredients and kept locked. Include and medical form with the parents’ signature. We discussed ways to keep files and staff and training worksheets up to date. We discussed I will come back if you would like more T.A. as a new director. We discussed K.M. needs to updated Criminal Background by 4/10/24. We discussed J. S. has Health And Safety due by March 2024. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Stabilization Grant, please contact Kaitlyn Marshall, Child Care Consultant, at 828-713-8192 or email kaitlyn.marshall@dhhs.nc.gov. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 MAINTAINING THE STAR RATING (a)A representative of the Division may make announced or unannounced visits to facilities to assess on-going compliance with the requirements of a star rating after it has been issued. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Failure to maintain the same education point level may result in a violation of the above rule reference and may result in a reduction of stars. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney,mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0802 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/18/2024 Number Present: 8 Completed Date: 1/18/2024 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 285 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Jordan Scott, Director, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site and electronically emailed you. Today, the accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety (90) percentage as of 1/18/24. Permit type – Four Star Special Services/Restrictions – Meets Reduced Ratios; Meets enhanced space The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23 The last fire drill was practiced on 12-13-23. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11-29-23. The last playground inspection was documented on 1/7/23. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/18/24. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/7/23 with eight (8) demerits for a Superiot classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a healthy lunch and engaged in conversation with their teacher. The class with one-year old children was observed taking a nap on cots. All children were resting, and teacher was positioned where she could see all I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were documented during today’s visit. Violation Number Comment Rule 812 Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) 862 The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. 10A NCAC 09 .0802(a) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Electrical Outlets Item 812- Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Note: Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. According to 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (c) When not in use, electrical outlets and power strips located in space used by children shall have safety outlets or be covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Item 0862 - The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Note: Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. According 10A NCAC 09 .0802 EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE (a) Each child care center shall have a written plan that sets forth the steps to follow in the event of a child medical emergency. The plan shall be reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan is revised. This plan shall give the procedures to be followed to ensure that any child who becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention while in care at the center receives appropriate medical attention. The following information shall be included in the center's emergency medical care plan: Corrective Action Plan: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/1/24. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.McCrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville, NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: We discussed the North Carolina Division of Early Education Provider page and how to access documents, training, and what’s new. We discussed ways to label ointment that is sent by a parent and that I would do some research and get back to you with exact detail. For now, it should be labeled with ingredients and kept locked. Include and medical form with the parents’ signature. We discussed ways to keep files and staff and training worksheets up to date. We discussed I will come back if you would like more T.A. as a new director. We discussed K.M. needs to updated Criminal Background by 4/10/24. We discussed J. S. has Health And Safety due by March 2024. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Stabilization Grant, please contact Kaitlyn Marshall, Child Care Consultant, at 828-713-8192 or email kaitlyn.marshall@dhhs.nc.gov. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 MAINTAINING THE STAR RATING (a)A representative of the Division may make announced or unannounced visits to facilities to assess on-going compliance with the requirements of a star rating after it has been issued. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Failure to maintain the same education point level may result in a violation of the above rule reference and may result in a reduction of stars. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney,mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .1102 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/18/2024 Number Present: 8 Completed Date: 1/18/2024 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 285 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Jordan Scott, Director, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site and electronically emailed you. Today, the accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety (90) percentage as of 1/18/24. Permit type – Four Star Special Services/Restrictions – Meets Reduced Ratios; Meets enhanced space The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23 The last fire drill was practiced on 12-13-23. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11-29-23. The last playground inspection was documented on 1/7/23. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/18/24. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/7/23 with eight (8) demerits for a Superiot classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a healthy lunch and engaged in conversation with their teacher. The class with one-year old children was observed taking a nap on cots. All children were resting, and teacher was positioned where she could see all I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were documented during today’s visit. Violation Number Comment Rule 812 Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) 862 The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. 10A NCAC 09 .0802(a) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Electrical Outlets Item 812- Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Note: Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. According to 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (c) When not in use, electrical outlets and power strips located in space used by children shall have safety outlets or be covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Item 0862 - The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Note: Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. According 10A NCAC 09 .0802 EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE (a) Each child care center shall have a written plan that sets forth the steps to follow in the event of a child medical emergency. The plan shall be reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan is revised. This plan shall give the procedures to be followed to ensure that any child who becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention while in care at the center receives appropriate medical attention. The following information shall be included in the center's emergency medical care plan: Corrective Action Plan: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/1/24. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.McCrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville, NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: We discussed the North Carolina Division of Early Education Provider page and how to access documents, training, and what’s new. We discussed ways to label ointment that is sent by a parent and that I would do some research and get back to you with exact detail. For now, it should be labeled with ingredients and kept locked. Include and medical form with the parents’ signature. We discussed ways to keep files and staff and training worksheets up to date. We discussed I will come back if you would like more T.A. as a new director. We discussed K.M. needs to updated Criminal Background by 4/10/24. We discussed J. S. has Health And Safety due by March 2024. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Stabilization Grant, please contact Kaitlyn Marshall, Child Care Consultant, at 828-713-8192 or email kaitlyn.marshall@dhhs.nc.gov. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 MAINTAINING THE STAR RATING (a)A representative of the Division may make announced or unannounced visits to facilities to assess on-going compliance with the requirements of a star rating after it has been issued. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Failure to maintain the same education point level may result in a violation of the above rule reference and may result in a reduction of stars. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney,mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .1703 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/18/2024 Number Present: 8 Completed Date: 1/18/2024 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 285 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Jordan Scott, Director, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site and electronically emailed you. Today, the accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety (90) percentage as of 1/18/24. Permit type – Four Star Special Services/Restrictions – Meets Reduced Ratios; Meets enhanced space The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23 The last fire drill was practiced on 12-13-23. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11-29-23. The last playground inspection was documented on 1/7/23. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/18/24. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/7/23 with eight (8) demerits for a Superiot classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a healthy lunch and engaged in conversation with their teacher. The class with one-year old children was observed taking a nap on cots. All children were resting, and teacher was positioned where she could see all I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were documented during today’s visit. Violation Number Comment Rule 812 Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) 862 The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. 10A NCAC 09 .0802(a) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Electrical Outlets Item 812- Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Note: Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. According to 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (c) When not in use, electrical outlets and power strips located in space used by children shall have safety outlets or be covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Item 0862 - The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Note: Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. According 10A NCAC 09 .0802 EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE (a) Each child care center shall have a written plan that sets forth the steps to follow in the event of a child medical emergency. The plan shall be reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan is revised. This plan shall give the procedures to be followed to ensure that any child who becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention while in care at the center receives appropriate medical attention. The following information shall be included in the center's emergency medical care plan: Corrective Action Plan: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/1/24. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.McCrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville, NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: We discussed the North Carolina Division of Early Education Provider page and how to access documents, training, and what’s new. We discussed ways to label ointment that is sent by a parent and that I would do some research and get back to you with exact detail. For now, it should be labeled with ingredients and kept locked. Include and medical form with the parents’ signature. We discussed ways to keep files and staff and training worksheets up to date. We discussed I will come back if you would like more T.A. as a new director. We discussed K.M. needs to updated Criminal Background by 4/10/24. We discussed J. S. has Health And Safety due by March 2024. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Stabilization Grant, please contact Kaitlyn Marshall, Child Care Consultant, at 828-713-8192 or email kaitlyn.marshall@dhhs.nc.gov. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 MAINTAINING THE STAR RATING (a)A representative of the Division may make announced or unannounced visits to facilities to assess on-going compliance with the requirements of a star rating after it has been issued. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Failure to maintain the same education point level may result in a violation of the above rule reference and may result in a reduction of stars. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney,mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .2830 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/18/2024 Number Present: 8 Completed Date: 1/18/2024 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 285 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Jordan Scott, Director, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site and electronically emailed you. Today, the accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety (90) percentage as of 1/18/24. Permit type – Four Star Special Services/Restrictions – Meets Reduced Ratios; Meets enhanced space The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23 The last fire drill was practiced on 12-13-23. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11-29-23. The last playground inspection was documented on 1/7/23. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/18/24. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/7/23 with eight (8) demerits for a Superiot classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a healthy lunch and engaged in conversation with their teacher. The class with one-year old children was observed taking a nap on cots. All children were resting, and teacher was positioned where she could see all I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were documented during today’s visit. Violation Number Comment Rule 812 Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) 862 The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. 10A NCAC 09 .0802(a) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Electrical Outlets Item 812- Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Note: Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. According to 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (c) When not in use, electrical outlets and power strips located in space used by children shall have safety outlets or be covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Item 0862 - The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Note: Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. According 10A NCAC 09 .0802 EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE (a) Each child care center shall have a written plan that sets forth the steps to follow in the event of a child medical emergency. The plan shall be reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan is revised. This plan shall give the procedures to be followed to ensure that any child who becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention while in care at the center receives appropriate medical attention. The following information shall be included in the center's emergency medical care plan: Corrective Action Plan: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/1/24. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.McCrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville, NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: We discussed the North Carolina Division of Early Education Provider page and how to access documents, training, and what’s new. We discussed ways to label ointment that is sent by a parent and that I would do some research and get back to you with exact detail. For now, it should be labeled with ingredients and kept locked. Include and medical form with the parents’ signature. We discussed ways to keep files and staff and training worksheets up to date. We discussed I will come back if you would like more T.A. as a new director. We discussed K.M. needs to updated Criminal Background by 4/10/24. We discussed J. S. has Health And Safety due by March 2024. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Stabilization Grant, please contact Kaitlyn Marshall, Child Care Consultant, at 828-713-8192 or email kaitlyn.marshall@dhhs.nc.gov. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 MAINTAINING THE STAR RATING (a)A representative of the Division may make announced or unannounced visits to facilities to assess on-going compliance with the requirements of a star rating after it has been issued. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Failure to maintain the same education point level may result in a violation of the above rule reference and may result in a reduction of stars. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney,mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

NC GS 110-90 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/18/2024 Number Present: 8 Completed Date: 1/18/2024 Age: From 1 To 5 Total Minutes: 285 Time In: 10:45 AM Time Out: 03:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Annual Comp Full Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor compliance during an annual compliance visit. A computerized generated report of today’s visit was completed, reviewed with you, and signed by Sidney McCrory, Child Care Consultant and also signed by Jordan Scott, Director, during the visit. An electronic signed copy of the visit summary was left on-site and electronically emailed you. Today, the accompanied me today. The indoor and outdoor areas were monitored today, including supervision, staff/child ratios, permit restrictions, discipline, nutrition and routine caregiving activities. An annual compliance monitoring checklist for child care centers was used to note the requirements monitored and is attached to the computerized generated visit summary for your records. The center’s compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety (90) percentage as of 1/18/24. Permit type – Four Star Special Services/Restrictions – Meets Reduced Ratios; Meets enhanced space The last annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23 The last fire drill was practiced on 12-13-23. The last shelter-in-place drill was practiced on 11-29-23. The last playground inspection was documented on 1/7/23. The last fire inspection was approved on 1/18/24. The last sanitation inspection was conducted on 9/7/23 with eight (8) demerits for a Superiot classification. The Emergency Medical Care plan was posted and current. The approved curriculum for four-year-old children is Creative Curriculum. Upon arrival I introduced my presence to the Director. I observed the group with three- to five-year-old children engaged in a healthy lunch and engaged in conversation with their teacher. The class with one-year old children was observed taking a nap on cots. All children were resting, and teacher was positioned where she could see all I used the Child Care Center Item Number Listing (DCDEE-0357) as a basic monitoring tool to assess compliance with all applicable child care requirements pertinent to this facility. For specific rule references, refer to Chapter 110 General Statues Child Care Facilities, Chapter nine (9) Child Care Rule (10A NCAC 09) and Section 2800 Sanitation of Child Care Center (15A NCAC 18A) for additional information. Updated copies of these rules can be located on our website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ The following violations were documented during today’s visit. Violation Number Comment Rule 812 Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. 10A NCAC 09 .0604(c) 862 The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. 10A NCAC 09 .0802(a) Technical assistance was provided as follows: Electrical Outlets Item 812- Electrical outlets and power strips, not in use, which were located in space used by children did not have safety outlets or were not covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Note: Outlets in a strip plug were not covered and below five feet in the space 105. According to 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (c) When not in use, electrical outlets and power strips located in space used by children shall have safety outlets or be covered with safety plugs unless located behind furniture or equipment that cannot be moved by a child. Item 0862 - The EMC plan was not reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan was revised. Note: Emergency Medical Plan had not been updated and reviewed with staff. According 10A NCAC 09 .0802 EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE (a) Each child care center shall have a written plan that sets forth the steps to follow in the event of a child medical emergency. The plan shall be reviewed with all staff annually and whenever the plan is revised. This plan shall give the procedures to be followed to ensure that any child who becomes ill or is injured and requires medical attention while in care at the center receives appropriate medical attention. The following information shall be included in the center's emergency medical care plan: Corrective Action Plan: Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation(s) documented may impact the compliance history score. The violation(s) documented must be corrected immediately. I must receive a written, dated, and signed compliance letter that describes accurately and in detail, how and when the violations were corrected. Please be aware any information submitted by you is legal documentation. If it is determined the information provided in the letter is not true, this may be considered falsification of information. If sufficient information is not received by the due date, a follow-up visit will be conducted. The violations documented above must be corrected immediately. Send me a letter of compliance describing in detail specifically how each violation was corrected and how compliance will be maintained in the future. Include the following: • Facility name • Facility ID# • Date of visit • Violation item number • Statement of compliance I must receive your compliance statement by 2/1/24. Email the compliance letter on signed letterhead or in the email identifying your facility name, ID#, name and position to: Sidney.McCrory@ dhhs.nc.gov or you can mail to: Department of Health and Human Services Division of Child Development and Early Education Attn: Sidney McCrory 172 Streamwood Circle Waynesville, NC 28786 Please call me at 828-550-7655, or email Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov, if you need assistance. Please note: if mailing the letter of compliance, I must receive by the due date listed above. You will need to mail a compliance statement three to five days prior to the due date to ensure receipt within the designated timeline. Failure to correct the violations and send the written statement by the due date listed above may result in an unannounced follow-up visit being conducted. Based on Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 Section .2200, the Division of Child Development may take administrative action against the license and/or impose civil penalties based on the failure of the operator to correct any documented violations within the established time period. Consultation is provided as follows: We discussed the North Carolina Division of Early Education Provider page and how to access documents, training, and what’s new. We discussed ways to label ointment that is sent by a parent and that I would do some research and get back to you with exact detail. For now, it should be labeled with ingredients and kept locked. Include and medical form with the parents’ signature. We discussed ways to keep files and staff and training worksheets up to date. We discussed I will come back if you would like more T.A. as a new director. We discussed K.M. needs to updated Criminal Background by 4/10/24. We discussed J. S. has Health And Safety due by March 2024. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Stabilization Grant, please contact Kaitlyn Marshall, Child Care Consultant, at 828-713-8192 or email kaitlyn.marshall@dhhs.nc.gov. If you elect to change and/or alter any previously approved spaces used by children as indicated on the approved indoor and outdoor floor plan, you will need to contact me within thirty (30) days prior to the change. Failure to notify a DCDEE representative may result in a violation of child care requirements. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” As child care providers, you are a vital part in the prevention and intervention of child maltreatment! You may see potential indicators of maltreatment in the children under your care. Some children may even be more likely to disclose maltreatment to a child care provider than to a family member. It is required that all providers are aware of maltreatment indicators and to report any suspicions of maltreatment. Follow child care rules related to child maltreatment training: 10A NCAC 09 .1102(g) and 10A NCAC 09 .1703(a)(5) states the child care administrator, operator, and all staff members shall complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 MAINTAINING THE STAR RATING (a)A representative of the Division may make announced or unannounced visits to facilities to assess on-going compliance with the requirements of a star rating after it has been issued. It is the center operator’s responsibility to make sure each staff person has registered for a WORKS account, submit an official transcript (if applicable) and apply for a position for evaluation. This should be completed immediately upon hiring or at the latest, by the end of the six-week orientation process. Failure to maintain the same education point level may result in a violation of the above rule reference and may result in a reduction of stars. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .2830 (c) If employment-related changes occur at a facility that result in the operator not complying with the standards in the Section for the star rating issued, the operator shall correct the noncompliance within 120 days. If the operator does not correct the noncompliance within 120 days, the operator shall notify the Division. It is your responsibility to understand the health and safety requirements in child care rule .1102. If the program is out of compliance in accordance with health and safety requirements, Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), it may affect subsidy funding. Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney,mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

10A NCAC 09 .0304 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 8/16/2023 Number Present: 13 Completed Date: 8/16/2023 Age: From 1 To 4 Total Minutes: 195 Time In: 09:45 AM Time Out: 01:00 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Routine Unannounced Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of this routine unannounced visit was to conduct limited compliance monitoring and offer consultation to the program. Vicki Brannon, Administrator, accompanied me today during the walk through and was available to assist with questions. The program’s annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23. The following items were monitored today: Supervision Staff Child Ratios CPR First Aid Special Training Criminal Record Checks Completed ITS-SIDS Training Emergency Medical Care Plan Administration of Medication Storage of Hazardous Substances Storage of Medication Adequate/Approved Space General Safety Discipline Program Records License Posted Permit Restrictions Children were observed… There are two (2) new staff members since the facility last annual compliance visit on 1/31/23. Two (2) new staff files were monitored. In the classroom containing the four-year-old children the teacher was engaged with children while they had free play. I observed the teacher in the classroom with one-year old children on the floor playing with the children engaging them with toys. The last fire drill was practiced 7/31/23. The last shelter-in-place drill/lockdown drill was practiced 7/31/23. The last fire inspection was approved 11/9/22. The last sanitation inspection was completed on 6/23/23 with fourteen (14) demerits for a superior rating. The Emergency Preparedness and Response plan has been completed. The Emergency Medical Care Plan is posted and current. The incident log is in use and maintained. The following violations of child care requirements were observed today: Violation Number Comment Rule 840 All corrosive agents, pesticides, bleaches, detergents, cleansers, polishes, any product which is under pressure in an aerosol dispenser, and any substance which may be hazardous to a child if ingested, inhaled, or handled were not stored in a locked room or cabinet. Six (6) Mr. Erasers were stored on an unlocked open shelf. This are hazardous if held by children and should be locked up. .2820(b) 858 Plastic bags, materials that could be torn apart and toy parts small enough to be swallowed were accessible to children under three years of age. In the classroom with one-year old children there was plastic around diapers and diaper wipes in an unlocked space at ground level. .0604(q) Hazardous Items Item 840- All corrosive agents, pesticides, bleaches, detergents, cleansers, polishes, any product which is under pressure in an aerosol dispenser, and any substance which may be hazardous to a child if ingested, inhaled, or handled were not stored in a locked room or cabinet. Note: Six (6) Mr. Erasers were stored on an unlocked open shelf. This are hazardous if held by children and should be locked up. According to 15A NCAC 18A .2820 STORAGE (b) All corrosive agents, pesticides, bleaches, detergents, cleansers, polishes, any product which is under pressure in an aerosol dispenser, and any substance which may be hazardous to a child if ingested, inhaled, or handled shall be kept in its original container or in another labeled container, used according to the manufacturer's instructions and stored in a locked storage room or cabinet when not in use. Locked storage rooms and cabinets shall include those which are unlocked with a combination, electronic or magnetic device, key, or equivalent locking device. Plastics Item 0858 Plastic bags, materials that could be torn apart and toy parts small enough to be swallowed were accessible to children under three years of age. Note: In the classroom with one-year old children there was plastic around diapers and diaper wipes in an unlocked space at ground level. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (q) Plastic bags, toys, toy parts small enough to be swallowed, and materials that can be torn apart, such as foam rubber and styrofoam, shall not be accessible to children under three years of age. However, styrofoam plates and larger pieces of foam rubber may be used for supervised art activities and styrofoam plates may be used for food service. Jump ropes and rubber bands shall not be accessible to children under five years of age without adult supervision. Balloons shall be prohibited for children of all ages. Consultation: We discussed your center is in Cohort three. You can call me if at anytime you decide to move forward before this time. We discussed your enrollment is down, but you have two (2) new children moving in and you have plans to increase your two and three-year old rooms. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you as needed. Please continue to visit DCDEE’s website to get the latest COVID-19 information for child care at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

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10A NCAC 09 .0604 · Violation

Name of Operation: TRIMONT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Facility ID: 56000082 Consultant: SIDNEY MCCRORY Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 8/16/2023 Number Present: 13 Completed Date: 8/16/2023 Age: From 1 To 4 Total Minutes: 195 Time In: 09:45 AM Time Out: 01:00 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Routine Unannounced Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of this routine unannounced visit was to conduct limited compliance monitoring and offer consultation to the program. Vicki Brannon, Administrator, accompanied me today during the walk through and was available to assist with questions. The program’s annual compliance visit was conducted on 1/31/23. The following items were monitored today: Supervision Staff Child Ratios CPR First Aid Special Training Criminal Record Checks Completed ITS-SIDS Training Emergency Medical Care Plan Administration of Medication Storage of Hazardous Substances Storage of Medication Adequate/Approved Space General Safety Discipline Program Records License Posted Permit Restrictions Children were observed… There are two (2) new staff members since the facility last annual compliance visit on 1/31/23. Two (2) new staff files were monitored. In the classroom containing the four-year-old children the teacher was engaged with children while they had free play. I observed the teacher in the classroom with one-year old children on the floor playing with the children engaging them with toys. The last fire drill was practiced 7/31/23. The last shelter-in-place drill/lockdown drill was practiced 7/31/23. The last fire inspection was approved 11/9/22. The last sanitation inspection was completed on 6/23/23 with fourteen (14) demerits for a superior rating. The Emergency Preparedness and Response plan has been completed. The Emergency Medical Care Plan is posted and current. The incident log is in use and maintained. The following violations of child care requirements were observed today: Violation Number Comment Rule 840 All corrosive agents, pesticides, bleaches, detergents, cleansers, polishes, any product which is under pressure in an aerosol dispenser, and any substance which may be hazardous to a child if ingested, inhaled, or handled were not stored in a locked room or cabinet. Six (6) Mr. Erasers were stored on an unlocked open shelf. This are hazardous if held by children and should be locked up. .2820(b) 858 Plastic bags, materials that could be torn apart and toy parts small enough to be swallowed were accessible to children under three years of age. In the classroom with one-year old children there was plastic around diapers and diaper wipes in an unlocked space at ground level. .0604(q) Hazardous Items Item 840- All corrosive agents, pesticides, bleaches, detergents, cleansers, polishes, any product which is under pressure in an aerosol dispenser, and any substance which may be hazardous to a child if ingested, inhaled, or handled were not stored in a locked room or cabinet. Note: Six (6) Mr. Erasers were stored on an unlocked open shelf. This are hazardous if held by children and should be locked up. According to 15A NCAC 18A .2820 STORAGE (b) All corrosive agents, pesticides, bleaches, detergents, cleansers, polishes, any product which is under pressure in an aerosol dispenser, and any substance which may be hazardous to a child if ingested, inhaled, or handled shall be kept in its original container or in another labeled container, used according to the manufacturer's instructions and stored in a locked storage room or cabinet when not in use. Locked storage rooms and cabinets shall include those which are unlocked with a combination, electronic or magnetic device, key, or equivalent locking device. Plastics Item 0858 Plastic bags, materials that could be torn apart and toy parts small enough to be swallowed were accessible to children under three years of age. Note: In the classroom with one-year old children there was plastic around diapers and diaper wipes in an unlocked space at ground level. 10A NCAC 09 .0604 SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS (q) Plastic bags, toys, toy parts small enough to be swallowed, and materials that can be torn apart, such as foam rubber and styrofoam, shall not be accessible to children under three years of age. However, styrofoam plates and larger pieces of foam rubber may be used for supervised art activities and styrofoam plates may be used for food service. Jump ropes and rubber bands shall not be accessible to children under five years of age without adult supervision. Balloons shall be prohibited for children of all ages. Consultation: We discussed your center is in Cohort three. You can call me if at anytime you decide to move forward before this time. We discussed your enrollment is down, but you have two (2) new children moving in and you have plans to increase your two and three-year old rooms. Child Care Rule 10A NCAC 09 .0304(a) states “Each operator shall schedule and obtain a fire inspection within 12 months of the center's previous fire inspection. The operator shall notify the local fire inspector when it is time for the center's annual fire inspection. The operator shall submit the original of the approved annual fire inspection report to the Division within one week of the inspection visit on the form provided by the Division.” Stay updated with changes and new rule updates by visiting the DCDEE website at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/.It is your responsibility to understand the rules and laws that are applicable your program. All rules/laws cannot be verbally reviewed during any licensing visit. Please ask questions if you are having difficulty and would like additional technical assistance. I welcome your questions and want to be a resource for you as needed. Please continue to visit DCDEE’s website to get the latest COVID-19 information for child care at https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/. We appreciate all you are doing to serve the children and families of NC. If you have questions, please contact me at Sidney.mccrory@dhhs.nc.gov or 828.550.7655, or Bonnie Mathis, Licensing Supervisor, at bonnie.mathis@dhhs.nc.gov. If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times