Holy Cross Head Start, Inc.
A day care center in Buffalo, New York 14207
89 Military Road, Buffalo, New York 14207. (716) 875-1506.
What New York’s list coversOutside New York City
Programs New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services licenses or registers outside New York City, each county added once it is read in full. Programs in the city’s five boroughs, including the day care centers its Health Department regulates, aren’t here yet.
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The short answer
Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Nov 5, 2026.
- 2 violations in the last three years
- Oct 162026 the latest visit on record
- 84 children, its licensed capacity
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?
18 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Oct 16, 2026.
2 violations cited in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
2 violations in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2024. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2023 | Dec | |||||||||||
| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
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.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
Nov 14, 2024: fire Safety - Alternate Year2 violations
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All corridors, aisles, and approaches to exits must be kept unobstructed at all times.
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Windows above the first floor that are accessible to children and present a fall hazard must be protected by permanent barriers or restrictive locking devices to prevent a window from opening fully thus preventing children from falling out the windows.
All 18 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Other | No violations found |
| Jul 14, 2026 | Application - Renewal | No violations found |
| Jun 2, 2026 | Fire Safety - Renewal | No violations found |
| May 11, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Sep 8, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 14, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | 2 violations cited |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 19, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Serious Injury | No violations found |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Serious Injury | No violations found |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Monitoring | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Aug 27, 2008.
- School district: Buffalo.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 84 Preschoolers.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Licence 361938, issued Aug 27, 2026, expires Aug 26, 2030.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
Has New York acted against it?
- No complaints in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
Who does the caring?
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual programs.
Who owns it?
- New York’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Takes part in QUALITYstarsNY, New York’s quality rating program.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 467 child care providers in Erie County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 2.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Northtowns, Inc. | 1 |
| Yolanda’s Kids Paradise Day Care | 2 |
| Holy Cross Head Start, Inc. This child care provider | 2 |
| Holy Cross Head Start, Inc. | 0 |
| Munchkin Land Day Care Center, Inc | 1 |
| Grow With Us Day Care, Inc. | 7 |
| The YWCA of Western New York, Inc. | 11 |
| BESTSELF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC. | 23 |
| AJAMO’S RAINBOW CHILDREN DAYCARE LLC | 0 |
| Omba, Beni | 7 |
| Curry, Sharaina | 4 |
| Say Yes Buffalo Scholarship, Inc | 3 |
What the record doesn’t say
- New York doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
- New York’s records give the regulation behind each violation, not what the inspector saw.
- New York’s program pages cover four calendar years; this page shows the last three years.
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual programs.
Sources
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs (cb42-qumz).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history.
Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: New York State Office of Children and Family Services. New York’s own record is on hs.ocfs.ny.gov. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.
From the provider
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Replies
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Paid listing
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