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Cornerstone Early Education and Youth Center, Inc.

A licensed child care center in Bear, Delaware 19701

3135 Summit Bridge Road, Bear, Delaware 19701. (302) 836-6445.

Delaware’s own record, on data.delaware.gov

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The short answer

Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 29, 2026.

The last 24 months 13 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean4
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

3 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Oct 9, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

13 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 29, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

13 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

13 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each violation, in its source’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 29, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 9, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation
  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1- Administration of Medication Staff #2- Orientation, OCCL Health and Safety, Job description, 2 references, adult abuse check, release of employment, and service letters. Staff #3- Health appraisal with TB test Staff #4- OCCL Health and Safety Staff #6- OCCL Health and Safety, Service letters”

    Rule 30U.

Oct 10, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations
  • Personnel Files

    “Please ensure staff files are complete. CPR and First Aid: Staff #2 OCCL Health and Safety: Staff #2 Health Appraisal and TB test: Staff #2, #4 Annual Safe Sleep and Child Abuse: Staff #7 Training Hours: Staff #6”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 12, 2025.

  • Child Files

    “Please ensure children’s files are complete. Child #17 needs blood lead test results.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 13, 2025.

  • Outdoor Area

    “Please get the fall zones mulched as soon as possible.”

    Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 12, 2025.

  • Hand Washing

    “Please ensure staff members are washing hands and changing gloves in between diaper changing/toileting.”

    Rule 59U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 12, 2025.

  • Administration of Medication

    “Have teachers in classrooms get new MAR’s for all medicines/diaper creams.”

    Rule 63U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 13, 2025.

  • Feeding of Infants

    “Have parents fill out and sign monthly infant feeding plans for the infant room.”

    Rule 72U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 12, 2025.

Oct 1, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations
  • Personnel Files

    “Staff files require the following documents: Health Appraisal with TB screening: Staff #2 and Staff #3 Administration of Medication Training: Staff #1 OCCL Health and Safety Training (7 hours): Staff #2, Staff #4, Staff #5.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 25, 2024.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Radon testing needs to be completed by the license expiration. Ensure all soap and water and sanitizer bottles are labeled. (Soap bottle in Little Angels, soap bottle in Little Cherubs, need labeled in Little Blessings, soap and water in Pre-K1)”

    Rule 45U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 25, 2024.

  • Indoor Space

    “Outlet covers needed in Little Lambs (1 missing) and Little Saints (in bathroom).”

    Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 25, 2024.

  • Kitchen and Food Preparation

    “Replace thermometer in Little Stars room and Preschool II. Lower temperature in Little Cherubs refrigerator- was 50 degrees.”

    Rule 50U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 25, 2024.

  • Equipment

    “Ensure there are sufficient materials available in all classrooms: Little Stars room needs more dramatic play, building materials, and manipulatives Little Lambs room needs paper for art supplies and sensory materials Little Saints classroom needs blocks, manipulatives/ problem solving materials, and art Little Blessings room needs building blocks, manipulatives, music, and dramatic play materials. Send pictures of the materials in the rooms.”

    Rule 57U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 25, 2024.

  • Diapering and Soiled Clothing

    “Diapering station needs to be within 5 feet of handwashing sink- this needs to be re-arranged in the Little Blessing room- send a picture when completed.”

    Rule 61U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 25, 2024.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 9, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation cited
Oct 10, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations cited
Oct 1, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 12 years.
  • Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 115318.
  • Capacity: 322 children.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 29, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Delaware acted against it?

  • 1 complaint investigation in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: Substantiated (1).
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 29, 2026. Updated daily.

On record, newest first
DateWhatDetail
Jan 22, 2024OCCL Standards Complaint: SubstantiatedOn December 27, 2023, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding incorrect ratios between the hours of 3:30 pm 5:00 pm. Based on staff interviews, observations, and documentation received, this complaint is substantiated for exceeding maximum group size because at the time of the visit, the number and age of children in the multipurpose room exceeded the maximum group size. The center quickly updated and educated staff about the new schedule.

Who does the caring?

  • Delaware doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers.

Who owns it?

  • Delaware’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • 2024: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
  • 2023: 2 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
  • 2022: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 29, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Providers aren’t compared: Delaware lists only the visits that found violations, so a count can’t tell a clean record from one never visited.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 29, 2026. Updated daily.

12 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Germaine OdenNot given
Kidz Ink INot given
Lil’ Einstein’s Learning AcademyNot given
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church PreschoolNot given
Valerie Chinn DBA A Kidz World LLCNot given
Cornerstone Early Education and Youth Center, Inc. This child care providerNot given
Kidz Ink IV Academy of Early LearningNot given
A. S. Academy of Learning 2Not given
Ashley Stanford DBA Little Arrows Childcare LLCNot given
Grow N’ LearnNot given
Dianne PetersNot given
Bree ThompsonNot given

What the record doesn’t say

  • Delaware doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
  • Delaware’s open data lists a visit only when a violation was cited there, so visits that found nothing aren’t shown.
  • Delaware publishes five years of reviews and complaints; this page shows the last three.
  • Delaware doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
  • Delaware lists only the visits that found violations, so a provider with none listed may not have been visited at all: no count of violations is used to headline, filter or compare its providers.

Sources

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing. Delaware’s own record is on data.delaware.gov. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 30, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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