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222 S Main Street, Rochester VT 05767 · License #51302 · Center · Afterschool Child Care Program
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18.77 · Within six months of the initial date of employment, Staff working with children and the Site Director and/or Program Administrator shall maintain an up-to-date BFIS Quality and Credential Account. Documentation, verification of qualifications and all annual professional development activities as specified in the rules in Section 5 of these regulations shall be submitted to NLCDC to be verified and maintained in BFIS.
Five (5) staff members who have been employed at the program for more than six (6) months do not have complete and/or up to date BFIS quality and credential accounts. Documents that are missing include CPR/First Aid, professional development, and Protecting Vermont's Children training certificates. The missing documents were verified during the site visit; this violation was cited because these trainings were completed but not submitted to BFIS. This is a repeat violation that was previously cited on 9/12/2025.
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18.77 · Within six months of the initial date of employment, Staff working with children and the Site Director and/or Program Administrator shall maintain an up-to-date BFIS Quality and Credential Account. Documentation, verification of qualifications and all annual professional development activities as specified in the rules in Section 5 of these regulations shall be submitted to NLCDC to be verified and maintained in BFIS.
Staff A and Staff B have worked at the program for more than six(6) months and they do not have up to date BFIS quality and credential accounts.
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18.79 · The Licensee shall maintain a current list of the Licensee or Designee, Staff, and Volunteers, as applicable in BFIS. Any changes shall be reported through BFIS within five working days of the change.
The program director changed in June of 2023 and the program did not notify licensing by entering a director change notification in BFIS. On the day of this visit the associated parties list in BFIS did not accurately reflect who the director was.
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5.36 · The Program Administrator or designee shall ensure a minimum of 4 hours of annual Professional Development Activities for new and returning Afterschool Aides related to the attainable goals defined in each Aide's Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP). This training is in addition to any infant/child CPR certificate or recertification and First Aid Training.
Staff A did not complete any professional development trainings during their professional development year, that year is based on the staff members start date. Staff A should have completed 4 hours of professional development hours between 10/02/2021 and 10/2022.
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10.9 · Emergency evacuations shall be practiced with the children each month. A record of practice drills for the previous and current year shall be maintained and available onsite. Practice drills may be pre-announced. There shall be: * a system in place to assure that all children are accounted for at a predetermined safe place; * a safety plan that may include additional lock down practices and procedures.
Records of the previous years evacuations were not on site. The director stated stated she was not sure if she took them home. This is a repeat violation.
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5.10 · Afterschool Administrators, Afterschool Site Directors, Afterschool Child Care Program Staff, Aides who are 18 years or older, and Substitutes as defined in regulations shall be the only individuals who may be alone with children, other than the child's parent.
Staff A's First Aid and CPR certification expired on 01/30/2020.
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5.14 · The licensee shall ensure that no person shall be left alone with children without approval from the Division which shall be based on the results of the background check to include fingerprinting.
Four Afterschool Activity Specialists who have not completed fingerprint supported background checks with the Child Development Division were left alone with children during the visit. This included taking the children off site on a bike ride.
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13.7 · Staff and children shall all wash their hands with soap under warm, running water: * before they eat or prepare food * after they use the toilet * after handling animals * after playing outside.
During the visit the children came in from outdoor play and were not instructed to wash their hands. Some children were observed eating snack without washing their hands first. The program staff member who brought the children in was aksed if the children wash there hands when they come in from outside, she stated sometimes.
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18.52.a. · A planned reduction, addition or substantial change in the indoor or outdoor spaces of the Afterschool Child Care Program;
The program has moved into the elementary school. Their licensed space is currently listed as the library and a classroom in the adjoining high school building. The high school was closed down as part of redistricting. The program has been operating out of the elementary school cafeteria for the entire 2020-21 school year. The program did not notifiy the Child Development Division of this change as required by this regulation.
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5.11 · The licensee shall ensure that any new individuals regularly present at the Afterschool Child Care Program submit a Records Check Authorization form to the Division prior to working with children in the Afterschool Child Care Program.
During today's visit the children walked to a classroom with Ryan for an enrichment activity with Marcella Carroll. Marcella Carroll is not on the Associated Parties list, so a record check has not been submitted for her prior to Marcella working with the children.
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4.3 · A child shall be admitted in an Afterschool Child Care Program when there is on file on the premises, either in hard copy or accessible and printable electronic format documentation in the child's file of each child's current immunization status. * Immunization records shall include the immunization administered and the date of each immunization. * If an enrolled child is in the process of complying with immunization requirements in accordance with the Vermont recommended immunization schedule, documentation in the child's file shall include the required Vermont Department of Health form. * If a child has not had a required immunization due to a Vermont allowed exemption, documentation in the child's file shall include the required Vermont Department of Health form.
Immunization records are not collected as part of the admission paperwork for children in care. Jolanta said that they would not have access to the immunization records kept at the school during all of their operating hours.
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10.9 · Emergency evacuations shall be practiced with the children each month. A record of practice drills for the previous and current year shall be maintained and available onsite. Practice drills may be pre-announced. There shall be: * a system in place to assure that all children are accounted for at a predetermined safe place; * a safety plan that may include additional lock down practices and procedures.
When asked for the documentation for monthly fire drills Jolanta could only find a list of practices for the previous school year, with the last date documented in March of 2016. Jolanta said they do practice an evacuation every month, but she has not been documenting their practices.
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4.1 · All records, reports, and documentation required by these regulations related to the Afterschool Child Care Program shall be maintained in an up-to-date manner by the Licensee and are subject to inspection by and/or surrender to the Department during regular program hours or upon request by a Department representative. All documentation shall be maintained for one year.
Not all staff files were on-site. Jolanta said that the copies on-site are from the files kept at their main office. Ryan Veilleax and Marcella Carroll did not have staff files on-site.
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