Shirletha'S Creative Learning Playhouse

NC GS 110-90 · Violation

Name of Operation: SHIRLETHA'S CREATIVE LEARNING PLAYHOUSE Facility ID: 47000215 Consultant: CECILIA ELLERBE Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 8/2/2023 Number Present: 10 Completed Date: 8/2/2023 Age: From 1 To 6 Total Minutes: 120 Time In: 10:00 AM Time Out: 12:00 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 with applicable childcare requirements pertinent to your annual compliance. Shirletha Lowery, Operator/Owner, was on the premises and I reviewed this visit summary documentation with Ms. Lowery, at the end of today’s visit. This program currently operates with a four-star license, issued April 15, 2020. License restrictions include daytime/overnight care, meets enhanced ratios, and children under 2 ½ years old in rooms with direct exits only. Your last AC visit was dated October 20, 2022. Your last RU visit was dated March 14, 2023. Your last fire inspection was dated November 10, 2023, and your last sanitation report was dated May 26, 2023. I monitored the following items according to Annual Compliance Monitoring Checklist for Child Care Centers. (SEE ATTACHMENT) The categories included: program requirements, equipment and furnishings, staff/child ratios and supervision, medications, outdoor area and equipment, transportation (if applicable), staff and children’s records. I observed the children and caregivers participating in large group activities, routine indoor/outdoor free play with caregivers moving about, engaging in play with the children and positioning themselves to where they could hear and see the children. Upon transitioning back indoors, hand washing techniques were practiced by both staff and children. Lunch was served and consisted of chicken nuggets, corn, pears, whole wheat bread and milk. A violation was observed and cited below: Violation Number Comment Rule 1899 Health and safety training topics were not included as part of on-going training within five years of completing the previous health and safety training topics. One staff did not complete any of the on-going training hours within five years of completing the previous health and safety training topics. .1103(b) 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. Your compliance visit before today’s visit was 98%. The violations recorded above must be corrected immediately. Mail or email a written, dated and signed statement to me by August 16, 2023, describing how violations were corrected. The compliance letter may be mailed to Alecia Paschal at, 509 Pilot Ave, Fayetteville NC, 28303. or emailed to alecia.paschal@dhhs.nc.gov If you state in your letter that corrections have been made when they have not, this will be considered falsification of information. If you cannot meet the requirements by this date, you must contact me with a purposed timeline of the corrections. In some cases, this timeline may be extended. CONSULTATION: The following was verified during today’s visit: The program’s mailing address: 1524 Rockfish Road, Raeford, NC 28376 The program’s telephone number: (910) 874-2452 The program’s email address is yvonnelowery456@yahoo.com The NC Secretary of State website was reviewed on August 2, 2023, and the owner Shirletha Lowery was not listed. She is the sole proprietor. At the completion of the visit, this visit summary was printed, reviewed, and a copy was left with you. Contact Alecia Paschal at (910) 489-0413 or email alecia.paschal@dhhs.nc.gov or Janet Edwards, Licensing Supervisor at 910-709-4160, email janet.edwards@dhhs.nc.gov if you have questions. 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