YWCA of WNY, Inc
A school age child care in Lackawanna, New York 14218
500 Martin Road, Lackawanna, New York 14218. (716) 852-6120.
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.
- 7 violations in the last three years
- May 282026 the latest visit on record
- 44 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?
12 inspections in the last three years, the latest on May 28, 2026.
7 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
7 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited May 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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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 | 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.
May 28, 2026: monitoring1 violation
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Evacuation drills must be conducted at least monthly during various hours of operation of the school age child care program.
Oct 21, 2025: monitoring1 violation
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All child care programs must have at least one staff person who holds a valid certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid on the premises of the program during the program’s operating hours.
Jul 15, 2025: serious Injury5 violations
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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.
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Pending notification of completion of all required background check components in subdivision (a) of this section, a prospective director, employee or volunteer must always be supervised by an individual who received a qualifying result on the background checks described in paragraph (a) of this section within the past five years. A provisional director, employee or volunteer shall not have unsupervised contact with children in care.
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The program must immediately call 911 for children who require emergency medical care and also must:
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In school-age child care programs where the registered capacity is less than 45 children, a group teacher or an assistant teacher may also perform administrative/fiscal management functions and/or program supervision functions, provided that the qualifications for such positions as set forth in 414.13(g)(1) have been met.
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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.
All 12 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2026 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Fire Safety - Other | No violations found |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Serious Injury | 5 violations cited |
| May 21, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 25, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| May 21, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- School Age Child Care, open since Feb 3, 2017.
- School district: Lackawana.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 44 School-Aged Children.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Registration 773947, issued Feb 3, 2023, expires Feb 2, 2027.
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?
- 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 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 7.
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 |
|---|---|
| TINYDREAMS DAYCARE | 0 |
| Monarch Little Learners Academy | 6 |
| The Community Action Organization of Western New York, Inc. | 3 |
| Rhymes and Reasons Day Care, Corp. | 5 |
| YWCA of WNY, Inc This child care provider | 7 |
| CHILDREN FIRST CHRISTIAN CHILD CARE AND EARLY LEARNING INC. | 3 |
| LITTLE ANGELS DAYCARE OF WNY, INC. | 0 |
| Rhymes and Reasons Day Care, Corp. | 0 |
| Brierwood Child Care of Lancaster, Inc. | 5 |
| Little O’s Cuddley Family Day Care | 0 |
| Bluff, Lori | 0 |
| Stepping Stones Family Day Care | 0 |
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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