Friendship Head Start
A day care center in Friendship, New York 14739
17 1/2 Pennsylvania Ave, Friendship, New York 14739. (585) 268-7605.
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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
- Oct 72026 the latest visit on record
- 49 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 7, 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 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 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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| 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.
Jul 27, 2026: complaint investigation4 violations
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The licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all staff and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program’s health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are:
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The program must immediately call 911 for children who require emergency medical care and also must: in the event of an accident or illness requiring immediate health care, secure such care and notify the parent; and
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Child day care centers must review and evaluate the backgrounds of all applicants for staff and volunteer positions. All applicants whose backgrounds must be checked are required to provide the following: a sworn statement by the applicant indicating whether, to the best of the applicant’s knowledge, such applicant has ever been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony in New York State or any other jurisdiction and fingerprint images as required to comply with the requirements of 413.4 of this Title;
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The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident,
Jun 13, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
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Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
Sep 27, 2024: monitoring1 violation
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The health care plan must describe the following: how a daily health check of each child for any indication of illness, injury, abuse or maltreatment will be conducted and documented;
All 20 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 2026 | Fire Safety - Renewal | No violations found |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 4 violations cited |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Fire Safety - Renewal | No violations found |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 31, 2025 | Self-Report | No violations found |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Apr 22, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Oct 22, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 4, 2024 | Self Reported Serious Incident | No violations found |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | No violations found |
| Feb 14, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Monitoring | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Jan 1, 2001.
- School district: Friendship.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 16 Infants, 16 Toddlers, 17 Preschoolers.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 45058, issued Jan 1, 2023, expires Dec 31, 2026.
- Capacity: 49 children.
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?
- 2 complaints in the last three years. New York’s status for each: Complaint (Substantiated) (2).
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.
| Date | What | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 2026 | Complaint (Substantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated). |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Complaint (Substantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated). |
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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 29 child care providers in Allegany County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 1; 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 |
|---|---|
| Friendship Head Start This child care provider | 6 |
| Literacy West, NY INC | 2 |
| The Carriage House Learning Center, Inc. | 4 |
| Bolivar-Richburg Early Childhood Development Ctr | 1 |
| Wellsville Montessori School | 1 |
| The Little Children Day Care Center (T.L.C.) | 2 |
| Trinity Christian Daycare | 3 |
| Bunk, Marinda | 0 |
| Wellsville Head Start | 2 |
| Countryside Childcare | 1 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Olean, NY and Bradford, PA | 1 |
| YMCA of the Twin Tiers | 1 |
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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