Hearth Record

OUR FUTURE LEADS DAYCARE INC.

A group family day care in Buffalo, New York 14204

205 Locust Street, Buffalo, New York 14204. (561) 236-6853.

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 14 violations in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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?

15 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Sep 25, 2026.

14 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

14 violations in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

14 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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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.

Feb 11, 2026: complaint investigation1 violation
  • Evacuation drills must be conducted at least monthly during the hours of operation of the group family day care home.

    Rule 416.4(b)(1). From a complaint.

Feb 19, 2025: complaint investigation1 violation
  • The provider, assistant(s), and substitutes must each meet the following qualifications: be capable of providing, and agree to provide, safe and suitable care to children which is supportive of the children’s physical, intellectual, emotional and social well-being;

    Rule 416.13(a)(3). From a complaint.

Feb 2, 2025: other1 violation
  • Each employee and volunteer must complete a minimum of thirty (30) hours of training every two years. The required 30 hours of training every two years is subject to the following conditions:

    Rule 416.14(c).

Dec 19, 2024: monitoring1 violation
  • All child care programs must have at least one caregiver who holds a valid certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid on the premises of the child care program during the program’s operating hours.

    Rule 416.14(m).

Sep 20, 2024: complaint investigation9 violations
  • Any violation of applicable statutes or regulations will be a basis to deny, reject, limit, suspend, revoke or terminate a license or registration.

    Rule 413.3(c)(1). From a complaint.

  • In accordance with the provisions of sections 413 and 415 of the Social Services Law, caregivers must immediately report any suspected incidents of child abuse or maltreatment concerning a child receiving child care to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment or cause such a report to be made when the caregiver has reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them in their capacity as caregiver in a group family day care is an abused or maltreated child. Such report must be followed by a written report within 48 hours, in the form and manner prescribed by the Office, to the child protective service of the social services district in the county in which the child resides.

    Rule 416.10(b). From a complaint.

  • The provider, assistant(s), and substitutes must each meet the following qualifications: be capable of providing, and agree to provide, safe and suitable care to children which is supportive of the children’s physical, intellectual, emotional and social well-being;

    Rule 416.13(a)(3). From a complaint.

  • Each group family day care home must operate in compliance with the regulations of the Office and all other applicable laws and regulations.

    Rule 416.15(a)(1)(ii). From a complaint.

  • The caregivers, employees, volunteers and all members of the household must be in good health and be of good character and habits.

    Rule 416.15(b)(4). From a complaint.

  • The caregivers must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems.

    Rule 416.9(b). From a complaint.

  • Physical restraint is prohibited. Physical restraint is the act of using force to extremely limit a child’s body movements for a lengthy period of time. It involves holding a child against his/her will and putting pressure on the child’s chest and/or extremities in an effort to significantly restrict his/her movement, thereby making it extremely difficult for a child to move. It may also involve holding a child flat on the ground and restricting his/her body from movement.

    Rule 416.9(h). From a complaint.

  • Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Part, 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, hot spices, irritants or the like.

    Rule 416.9(j). From a complaint.

  • Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited.

    Rule 416.9(m). From a complaint.

Dec 12, 2023: monitoring1 violation
  • Evacuation drills must be conducted at least monthly during the hours of operation of the group family day care home.

    Rule 416.4(b)(1).

All 18 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 25, 2026MonitoringNo violations found
Jun 30, 2026MonitoringNo violations found
Mar 31, 2026Annual UnannouncedNo violations found
Feb 11, 2026ComplaintComplaint (Unsubstantiated); 1 violation cited
Jan 6, 2026MonitoringNo violations found
Apr 14, 2025Annual UnannouncedNo violations found
Mar 31, 2025Monitoring - EnforcementNo violations found
Feb 19, 2025ComplaintComplaint (Substantiated); 1 violation cited
Feb 2, 2025Other1 violation cited
Jan 30, 2025Application - RenewalNo violations found
Dec 19, 2024Monitoring1 violation cited
Nov 1, 2024Monitoring - EnforcementNo violations found
Oct 1, 2024OtherNo violations found
Sep 20, 2024ComplaintComplaint (Substantiated); 9 violations cited
Sep 16, 2024MonitoringNo violations found
Apr 23, 2024MonitoringNo violations found
Feb 13, 2024Annual UnannouncedNo violations found
Dec 12, 2023Monitoring1 violation cited

Is it licensed?

  • Group Family Day Care, open since Feb 2, 2021.
  • School district: Buffalo.
  • Capacity, in New York’s words: 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years AND 4 additional school-aged children.
  • Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
  • Licence 869707, issued Feb 2, 2025, expires Feb 1, 2029.
  • Capacity: 16 children.
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?

  • 3 complaints in the last three years. New York’s status for each: Complaint (Substantiated) (2), Complaint (Unsubstantiated) (1).
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.

On record, newest first
DateWhatDetail
Feb 11, 2026Complaint (Unsubstantiated)New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Unsubstantiated).
Feb 19, 2025Complaint (Substantiated)New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Substantiated).
Sep 20, 2024Complaint (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.
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 14.
Source:

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

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

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

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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.

From the homeNone yet. Replies and paid listings aren’t open, and when they open they will sit here, below the record.

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