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YMCA Buffalo Niagara

A school age child care in Depew, New York 14043

86 Alys Drive, Depew, New York 14043. (716) 684-2395.

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.

New York’s own record, on hs.ocfs.ny.gov

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The short answer

Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Nov 5, 2026.

The last 24 months 8 violations in 7 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

13 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Sep 10, 2026.

8 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

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

8 violations in 7 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

8 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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:

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 10, 2026: other1 violation

  • Applicants for a registration must submit to the Office: a completed application, including required attestations, on forms furnished by the Office or approved equivalents. Such application and attestations must include an agreement by the applicant to operate the school-age child care program in conformity with applicable laws and regulations;

    Rule 414.2(a)(1).

Aug 28, 2026: application - Renewal1 violation

  • Upon termination or resignation of the director:

    Rule 414.15(b)(23).

Feb 5, 2026: annual Unannounced1 violation

  • Upon termination or resignation of the director: An approved, permanent director must be on-site, performing the duties of the position, within ninety days.

    Rule 414.15(b)(23)(iv).

May 21, 2025: annual Unannounced2 violations

  • Every licensee and registrant shall submit fingerprint images for each prospective director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older prospectively living in a group family day care home or family day care home.

    Rule 413.4(d)(2).

  • The director or a designated qualified staff member must conduct monthly inspections of the premises to observe possible fire and safety hazards. Any such hazard must be corrected immediately.

    Rule 414.4(h).

Feb 10, 2025: no Approved Director1 violation

  • Upon termination or resignation of the director:

    Rule 414.15(b)(23).

Nov 7, 2024: monitoring1 violation

  • for a child of school-age through the age of nine years old: there must be one teacher for every ten children;

    Rule 414.8(k)(1)(i). Corrected during the inspection.

Jun 10, 2024: monitoring1 violation

  • Every licensee and registrant shall submit fingerprint images for each prospective director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older prospectively living in a group family day care home or family day care home.

    Rule 413.4(d)(2).

All 13 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 10, 2026Other1 violation cited
Aug 28, 2026Application - Renewal1 violation cited
May 14, 2026MonitoringNo violations found
Feb 5, 2026Annual Unannounced1 violation cited
Nov 13, 2025MonitoringNo violations found
Sep 3, 2025MonitoringNo violations found
May 21, 2025Annual Unannounced2 violations cited
Feb 10, 2025No Approved Director1 violation cited
Nov 7, 2024Monitoring1 violation cited
Sep 10, 2024MonitoringNo violations found
Jun 10, 2024Monitoring1 violation cited
Mar 1, 2024Annual UnannouncedNo violations found
Dec 20, 2023MonitoringNo violations found

Is it licensed?

  • School Age Child Care, open since Sep 1, 1999.
  • School district: Lancaster.
  • Capacity, in New York’s words: 40 School-Aged Children.
  • Registration 44145, issued Sep 1, 2022, with an expiration date of Aug 31, 2026, which has passed.
Source:

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.
Source:

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?

  • Doesn’t take part in QUALITYstarsNY, New York’s quality rating program.
Source:

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 8.
Source:

New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 22, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 467 in Erie County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Doodle Bugs! Children’s Centers3
Lord of Life Child Development Center8
It’s A Small World Daycare Center, Inc.13
BRIGHTPATH10
YMCA Buffalo Niagara This child care provider8
YMCA BUFFALO NIAGARA7
BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD DEVELOPMENT, LLC34
My Space to Grow Daycare LLC24
Beyond Learning Center10
Gina Property Holdings LLC0
Brierwood Child Care of Lancaster, Inc.5
Little O’s Cuddley Family Day Care0

What the record doesn’t say

  • New York’s list of programs gives an expiration date that has passed, and doesn’t say whether the licence was renewed; New York’s own search has its current status.
  • 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

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.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 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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How to read a record

Four things every record does, shown on an example record made up for this guide.

An example record, made up for this guide

An example nursing home

Made up for this guide: no real place is shown

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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