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25 | On 07/22/2022, at 12:21 p.m. Licensing Program Analysts (LPA) Esequiel Rodriguez conducted an unannounced inspection at the Facility to follow up on an unannounced annual inspection conducted at the Family Child Care Home on 07/19/2022 to assess the Facility operation of their program and current physical plant status in which no one answered the door or the listed phone number.
On today's date the LPA met with Licensee, Elvira Parra. The LPA explained that the reason for the inspection as stated above. Licensee stated aplohized for not being home the other day. She stated tht the facikity has been in an active status for the past year or more, and will not provide child care services for the next few months, that she notified the Department in the past month about the situation, but has not been able to follow up because her English is very limited and lacks of social media understanding. She said, she notified the Department via phone calls. At this time she is not providig child care services because she has family issues to care for and does not have a qualified assistant to help her. Also, the backyard for the Facility is being used by her adult son to store car parts and other items that may create a hazard to children. However, that area is off limits.
Licensee stated that, at this time, she does not want to give up on caring for children and wants to keep the Child Care license, so she wishes to retain her license in an Inactive status. The LPA explained that such request shall be done in an official letter or LIC 624 (unusual Incident Report form) along with LIC 9211, Request for Inactive Child Care License Status. The LPA provided a blank copy of LIC 9211 and was complete by Licensee. The facility will be put on Inactive Status until 01/30/23. Nonetheless, a tour of the entire facility was conducted. The facility was noted clean safe, orderly and sanitary. There were no children present and no files were reviewed, for the facility has been, informally, inactive since 07/23/19. |