SUNY Potsdam Child Care Center, Inc
A day care center in Potsdam, New York 13676
185 Outer Main St, Potsdam, New York 13676. (315) 267-2391.
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.
Watch and the shortlist are kept with a free account, on every device. Your watch list. New York’s own record is on hs.ocfs.ny.gov.
The short answer
Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Oct 24, 2026.
- 4 violations in the last three years
- Jul 222026 the latest visit on record
- 103 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?
16 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Jul 22, 2026.
4 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
4 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Nov 13, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
-
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.
May 6, 2025: fire Safety - Alternate Year2 violations
-
The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: documentation from the local government authority having jurisdiction for determining compliance with the Fire and Building Code of New York State showing that the facility has been inspected and approved once every 12 months during the current license period for compliance with the applicable fire safety provisions of the Fire and Building Code of New York State;
-
All fire suppression equipment and systems must be tested and maintained in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State or other applicable fire and building codes when the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State is not applicable.
Oct 31, 2024: complaint investigation1 violation
-
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.
All 18 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2026 | No Acting Director | No violations found |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Technical Assistance | No violations found |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Other | No violations found |
| Apr 21, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 11, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Fire Safety - Other | No violations found |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| May 6, 2025 | Fire Safety - Alternate Year | 2 violations cited |
| May 6, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 26, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Oct 31, 2024 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Self Reported Serious Incident | No violations found |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Application - Renewal | No violations found |
| May 20, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Mar 28, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 20, 2023 | Monitoring | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Aug 22, 2018.
- School district: Potsdam.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 8 Infants, 36 Toddlers, 39 Preschoolers and 20 School-Aged Children.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 821715, issued Aug 22, 2024, expires Aug 21, 2028.
- Capacity: 103 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2025 | Complaint (Substantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated). |
| Oct 31, 2024 | 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 73 child care providers in St. Lawrence County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 4.
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 |
|---|---|
| St. Lawrence County Community Development Program | 3 |
| Damon, Kimberly | 14 |
| SUNY Potsdam Child Care Center, Inc This child care provider | 4 |
| McGoogle’s Mind Molders Academy | 41 |
| Weems, Crysten | 0 |
| Oney, Melinda | 3 |
| Nelson, Kathleen | 0 |
| Murray, Nancy | 1 |
| Flynn, Tammy | 4 |
| Bell, Marianne | 0 |
| Schwandner, Deanne | 3 |
| Corbine, Shelly | 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
-
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.
-
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
None. Replies aren’t open yet. When they open, the provider will be able to answer any finding for free, and the reply will show beside that finding, unedited and dated.
Paid listing
None. Paid listings aren’t open yet. When they open, anything paid for will say “Paid by the provider”, and paying will never change a finding, a rating or the order of results.