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Little Dreamer’s Daycare Center

A licensed child care center in Athens, Texas 75751

1008 Mill Run Rd, Athens, Texas 75751. (903) 368-5368.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 27, 2026.

The last 24 months 10 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. Every month

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What these words mean5
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.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
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?

10 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 24 child care providers in Henderson County had 4.

16 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 6, 2026: no violation found.

Rated High by Texas: AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age, at the inspection on Sep 18, 2025

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

10 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

10 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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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 deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Aug 24, 2026: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “The last gas leak test was conducted 8/20/2024.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2026. Correction verified: Oct 12, 2026.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “While reviewing children’s files, 4 children did not have an address or phone number for an emergency contact.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2026.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “While reviewing children’s files, 4 children did not have information for authorization for medical treatment.”

    Rule 746.605(10). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 4, 2026. Correction verified: Sep 30, 2026.

Sep 18, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
  • AP Cribs - Only Snug Fitting Sheet and Crib Mattress Cover Allowed if Infant Younger than 12 Months of Age

    “While doing a walk through of the infant room, 1 child was in a restrictive device inside a crib and 2 infants under 12 months had blankets on them. This was corrected when the caregivers removed the restrictive device and the blankets from the crib while I was present.”

    Rule 746.2415(b). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 18, 2025.

  • Documentation of Training Requirements - Original Training Certification Card or Letter in each Employee’s personnel record

    “The operation did not provide training hours to review.”

    Rule 746.1329(a). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 17, 2025. Correction verified: Nov 4, 2025.

Nov 4, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “The caregivers did not have 24 hours of annual training completed within the last 12 months.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2025.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Nine Inches if Equipment Greater Than 5 Ft.

    “The loose fill under the swing is not maintained to 9 inches.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 18, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2025.

  • Written Operational Policies - Parent Rights

    “The operation did not have the parent’s rights information in the operational policy or an acknowledgment that the parents were given the information.”

    Rule 746.501(a)(20). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 18, 2024. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2025.

Nov 29, 2023: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Diaper Changing Equipment - Smooth, Non-absorbent, Easy to Clean Surface

    “Two diaper changing pads were observed to have tears and could no longer be sanitized properly.”

    Rule 746.3503(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 6, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 11, 2023.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “The HASA was completed and the caregivers did not have the 6 required topics for training.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 27, 2023. Correction verified: Dec 11, 2023.

27 deficiencies older than three years
Nov 30, 2022: inspection1 deficiency
  • Additional Minimum Qualifications for Caregivers - HS Diploma, Equivalent, Certification of Completion

    “During inspection, one caregiver was observed not having the necessary educational requirements.”

    Rule 746.1107(2). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 30, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 6, 2022.

Oct 12, 2022: inspection2 deficiencies
  • Children’s Records Maintained

    “During POA inspection, 6 records were reviewed. 4 records were not maintained.”

    Rule 746.603(a). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 26, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 27, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records

    “During POA inspection, 6 records were reviewed and not maintained.”

    Rule 746.901. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Oct 26, 2022. Correction verified: Oct 27, 2022.

Apr 14, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies
  • AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions

    “Tiesha Carter is a designated perpetrator of neglectful supervision, case #48871715, date 12/4/21, with conditions. One condition is that Tiesha is unable to supervise children alone. On 4/14/22, Tiesha Carter was observed supervising two children alone during transition to a classroom.”

    Rule 745.635(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 14, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2022.

  • Activities for Infants - Not in Restrictive Device for more than 15 Minutes

    “During inspection, 2 infant classrooms were observed to have infants in restrictive devices. A second walk through was conducted 30 minutes later and one class had the same 2 infants in the restrictive devices and the second class had the the same children in restrictive devices and one asleep in a restrictive device. This was corrected when the caregivers removed the infants from the devices.”

    Rule 746.2417(2)(B). High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 14, 2022.

  • Screen Time Activities - Related to Planned Activities

    “During the inspection, a classroom was observed with a child’s television program on that was not related to the daily activity. The caregiver stated she turns it on in the morning to start the day and wait for devotion time.”

    Rule 746.2207(c)(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 14, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2022.

  • Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days

    “During inspection, two infant rooms were observed to have infant feeding sheets that had not been updated. This was discussed with the caregivers and the person in charge.”

    Rule 746.2421(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2022.

  • Required Postings-Licensing notices with instructions to post

    “During inspection it was observed the operation did not have a staff list or licensing inspection posted.”

    Rule 746.401(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 21, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 28, 2022.

Jan 21, 2022: inspection3 deficiencies
  • AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation

    “A caregiver had access to children before a background check was conducted.”

    Rule 745.641. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 26, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 8, 2022.

  • Infant Care Area Furnishings and Equipment -Use of Safety Straps

    “One infant was not strapped in in a high chair table.”

    Rule 746.2407. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 21, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 8, 2022.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Of the 5 records reviewed all 5 staff are missing 1,5,6. The operation does not administer medication so #3 is not required.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 4, 2022. Correction verified: Feb 8, 2022.

Dec 15, 2021: inspection10 deficiencies
  • Documented Annual Training - Caregivers of Children Under 24 Months Required

    “Of 5 records reviewed, staff #1, #2, and #3 do not have this training available.”

    Rule 746.1309(d). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

  • Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less

    “A swing set is on the playground and required 6 inches of loose fill material is not installed.”

    Rule 746.4907(a)(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “A current gas leak inspection is not available.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 16, 2021.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “Four records were reviewed. Child #2 and #4 do not have full info for emergency contact.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

  • Documented Annual Training - 6 Hours of annual training required

    “Five records were reviewed. Staff #1 needs one more hour in one of the required topic areas. Staff #3 needs two hours.”

    Rule 746.1309(b). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

  • Documented Annual Training - 1 hour in Prevention, Recognition and Reporting of child maltreatment

    “Of 5 records reviewed Staff #1, #2, and #3 are missing this training.”

    Rule 746.1309(c). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

  • Documented Annual Training- Required Content

    “Of the 5 records reviewed all 5 staff are missing these required trainings.”

    Rule 746.1309(e). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

  • Provide Parents With Copy of Policies

    “Four records were reviewed. Child #2 and Child #4 do not show the parents received the parent handbook (operational Policies).”

    Rule 746.503. Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

  • Children’s Records - Health Statement

    “Four records were reviewed. Child #2 and #4 do not have a health statement or parent health statement on file.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(3). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “Four records were reviewed. Child # 2 and #3 need addresses for their healthcare provider.”

    Rule 746.605(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 12, 2022. Correction verified: Jan 21, 2022.

Oct 21, 2021: report to the state6 deficiencies
  • Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Demonstrate Competency, Good Judgment, Self-control

    “Based on a DFPS investigation, an operation employee did not use good judgment when they exited the vehicle without following transportation protocol. As a result, a child was left unattended on the vehicle for over 20 minutes.”

    Rule 746.1201(1). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.

  • AP Responsibilities of Employees and Caregivers -Ensure No Child Abused, Neglected, or Exploited

    “This standard was evaluated as part of a DFPS investigation and it was determined that neglectful supervision occurred.”

    Rule 746.1201(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.

  • Report Situation Placing Children at Risk

    “Based on a DFPS investigation, an incident that put a child at risk occurred on 10/20/21 and the operation did not notify licensing per minimum standards.”

    Rule 746.305(a)(6). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.

  • Safety Precautions for Loading and Unloading Children - Account for All Children

    “An employee parked and the left the daycare vehicle, without ensuring that each child was accounted for.”

    Rule 746.5605(3). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.

  • Electronic Child Safety Alarm - used at all times when transporting a child in care

    “Based on a DFPS investigation, it was founded that an employee did not properly utilize the installed electronic child safety alarm. The employee exited the vehicle to turn the alarm off, instead of walking through the vehicle to turn the alarm off.”

    Rule 746.5625(c). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 13, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.

  • Licensing Incident/Illness Report Form - Situations Placing Children at Risk

    “An incident report was not completed for a situation that placed a child at risk.”

    Rule 746.701(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 15, 2021. Correction verified: Dec 15, 2021.

All 19 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 6, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Oct 3, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Aug 24, 2026Inspection3 deficiencies cited
May 20, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Nov 4, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Sep 18, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jan 6, 2025InspectionNo violation found
Nov 4, 2024Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Nov 29, 2023Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Nov 30, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 12, 2022Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Jul 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 28, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Apr 14, 2022Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Feb 23, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Feb 8, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Jan 21, 2022Inspection3 deficiencies cited
Dec 15, 2021Inspection10 deficiencies cited
Oct 21, 2021Report to the state6 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Mar 20, 2015.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 136 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 3 reports to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 24 child care providers in Henderson County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 4; this one had 10.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 27, 2026. Updated daily.

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 27, 2026.

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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.

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