Creative Kids of Brewster
A day care center in Brewster, New York 10509
1515 Route 22, Brewster, New York 10509. (845) 279-9100.
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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 Nov 5, 2026.
- 13 violations in the last three years
- Sep 282026 the latest visit on record
- 239 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?
11 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Sep 28, 2026.
13 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
12 violations in 8 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Sep 28, 2026: monitoring1 violation
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Any initial application for a child care license or registration shall include the submission of fingerprint images for any operator, director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older living in a group family day care home or family day care home.
Feb 2, 2026: annual Unannounced1 violation
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Any initial application for a child care license or registration shall include the submission of fingerprint images for any operator, director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older living in a group family day care home or family day care home.
Nov 14, 2025: complaint investigation3 violations
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Any abuse or maltreatment of a child is prohibited. A day care center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by an staff, volunteer or any other person. An abused child or maltreated child means a child defined as an abused child or maltreated child pursuant to Section 412 of the Social Services Law.
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The staff and volunteers must be in good health and be of good character and habits.
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Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Subpart, the term corporal punishment means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child’s mouth soap, foods, hot spices or irritants or the like.
Aug 14, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
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There must be a director, group teacher or assistant teacher supervising all applicants, volunteers and persons in the process of approval.
Apr 9, 2025: complaint investigation2 violations
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When a child care center is in operation, an adequate number of qualified teachers must be on duty to ensure the health and safety of the children in care.
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for children between ages 18 months old and 36 months old: there must be one teacher for every five children;
Oct 28, 2024: complaint investigation1 violation
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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.
Sep 26, 2024: monitoring1 violation
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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.
Apr 10, 2024: annual Unannounced2 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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Applicants for a license must submit to the Office: Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment and Justice Center for the Protection of Persons with Special Needs
Nov 28, 2023: monitoring1 violation
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The Office shall require the child day care program to immediately post upon receipt, in a prominent place at the program that is visible to parents, a copy of the most recent compliance history report issued to the program by the Office.
All 16 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2026 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Complaint | Complaint (Investigation Pending); no violations found |
| May 11, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | 1 violation cited |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 3 violations cited |
| Oct 22, 2025 | No Acting Director | No violations found |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Unsubstantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Complaint | Complaint (Substantiated); 2 violations cited |
| Mar 10, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Complaint | Complaint (Unsubstantiated); 1 violation cited |
| Sep 26, 2024 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| Jun 5, 2024 | Application - Renewal | No violations found |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | 2 violations cited |
| Nov 29, 2023 | Fire Safety - TA | No violations found |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Jun 24, 2020.
- School district: Brewster.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 32 Infants, 72 Toddlers, 85 Preschoolers and 50 School-Aged Children.
- Licence 854005, issued Jun 24, 2024, expires Jun 23, 2028.
- Capacity: 239 children.
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 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Has New York acted against it?
- 5 complaints in the last three years. New York’s status for each: Complaint (Substantiated) (2), Complaint (Unsubstantiated) (2), Complaint (Investigation Pending) (1).
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 Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
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| Aug 26, 2026 | Complaint (Investigation Pending) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Investigation Pending). |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Complaint (Substantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated). |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Complaint (Unsubstantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Unsubstantiated). |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Complaint (Substantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated). |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Complaint (Unsubstantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Unsubstantiated). |
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 59 child care providers in Putnam County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 13.
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 |
|---|---|
| Green Chimneys Children’s Servces, Inc. | 1 |
| Home Sweet Home Group Day Care LLC | 3 |
| Hudson Valley Community Services Early Childhood | 10 |
| Heart 2 Heart Child Care Center LLC | 11 |
| Over the Rainbow Learning Center | 13 |
| The Church of St. Lawrence O’Toole | 0 |
| Town of Southeast | 6 |
| Creative Kids of Brewster This child care provider | 13 |
| B’Above - Brewster Head Start | 2 |
| K Day Care Inc. | 5 |
| Pine Grove Country Day Care at Baldwin Park | 3 |
| Sing Along Family Child 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 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 Nov 5, 2026.
From the provider
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Replies
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Paid listing
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