Watertown Family YMCA, Inc.
A school age child care in Black River, New York 13612
160 Leray Street, Black River, New York 13612. (315) 771-6567.
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 Oct 24, 2026.
- 6 violations in the last three years
- Sep 222026 the latest visit on record
- 20 children, its capacity in the state’s list
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?
11 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Sep 22, 2026.
6 violations cited in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
6 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2023 | Nov | 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 |
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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Jan 13, 2026: annual Unannounced3 violations
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The following criminal history review and background clearances shall be conducted pursuant to and consistent with the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act for any prospective operator, director, employee or volunteer at a child day care center, small day care center, school-age child care program, group family day care home or family day care home, as defined in section (2) of this part, and any person age eighteen (18) or older living in a prospective, or who begins to live, in a group family day care home or family day care home:
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The school age child care program must post or display conspicuously in a place to which parents have free and daily access, the following: the address and telephone number of the appropriate regional office of the Office which may be contacted to lodge a complaint against the school age child care program for violations of statutory and regulatory requirements; and
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The program must maintain on file at the program, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: a current daily schedule documenting the arrival and departure times of each staff person and volunteers;
Dec 8, 2025: documentation Review3 violations
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The school age child care program must post or display conspicuously in a place to which parents have free and daily access, the following: the name(s), addresses and telephone numbers of person(s) with the legal responsibility and administrative authority for the operation of the program;
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The school age child care program must post or display conspicuously in a place to which parents have free and daily access, the following: the address and telephone number of the appropriate regional office of the Office which may be contacted to lodge a complaint against the school age child care program for violations of statutory and regulatory requirements; and
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911 and the Poison control phone number must be posted conspicuously on or next to all stationary telephones designated for the school age child care program’s use.
All 11 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 14, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | 3 violations cited |
| Dec 8, 2025 | Documentation Review | 3 violations cited |
| Sep 12, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 9, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 14, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- School Age Child Care, open since Nov 1, 1994.
- School district: Carthage.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 20 School-Aged Children.
- Approved by New York to give medication.
- Registration 42430, issued Nov 1, 2023, expires Oct 31, 2027.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Oct 24, 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?
- Doesn’t take 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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 98 child care providers in Jefferson County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 6.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Watertown Family YMCA, Inc. This child care provider | 6 |
| Costantino, Jennifer | 0 |
| Czerwinski, Vivianna | 1 |
| Ward, Jan | 5 |
| Vest, Eva | 0 |
| Little People Daycare | 5 |
| Jefferson Campus Care | 0 |
| Raap, Kelly | 0 |
| Labiendo, Patti | 0 |
| The Duck, Duck, Goose Day Care | 1 |
| Watertown Family YMCA, Inc. | 1 |
| Natasha’s Kiddie Shack Daycare | 10 |
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 Oct 24, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 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 19, 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 Oct 24, 2026.
From the provider
The public record above comes first. Anything the provider adds will appear here, below it, and say who wrote it.
Replies
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Paid listing
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