Stepping Stones Dfw, LLC
A licensed child care center in Mesquite, Texas 75149
1460 Eastglen Blvd, Mesquite, Texas 75149. (214) 388-1555.
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The short answer
Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.
- 38 deficiencies cited in the last three years Middle in Dallas County: 2
- 12 rated High by Texas, its most serious level (needs attention)
- 22 inspections on record
- Not rated Texas Rising Star rating
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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?
38 deficiencies cited in the last three years
The middle of the 986 child care providers in Dallas County had 2.
22 inspections on record. The latest, on Oct 20, 2026: outcome pending.
Rated High by Texas: AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions, at the inspection on Oct 1, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety, at the inspection on Oct 1, 2025
Rated High by Texas: Not Under the Influence of Alcohol or Controlled Substance, at the report to the state on Sep 30, 2025
9 more rated High; all are listed below.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.
When those deficiencies happened
38 deficiencies in 11 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. Most serious: High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 |
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Each deficiency, in Texas’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.
Feb 4, 2026: assessment1 deficiency
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Liability Insurance Requirements - Provide Proof of Coverage Annually by Anniversary Date of Issuance
“The operation does not have liability insurance.”
Jan 30, 2026: assessment1 deficiency
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Liability Insurance Requirements - Provide Proof of Coverage Annually by Anniversary Date of Issuance
“The operation does not have liability insurance.”
Jan 16, 2026: assessment1 deficiency
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Report Number of Employees
“Annual report has not been completed and submitted by required due date.”
Oct 1, 2025: inspection4 deficiencies
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AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions
“A person was supervising 9 children in a classroom with a condition to not being left alone. An additional caregiver was not present in the classroom”
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Responsibilities of Caregivers - Intervene to ensure each child’s safety
“A child was observed asleep in a room alone.”
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Designating Director
“The current director of the center does not meet the required standards due to conditions on their background check that prevent them from fulfilling their job duties.”
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Types of Vehicles Used to Transport Children - Be Maintained Safely
“One of the operation’s vehicles the front seat was not attatched to the floor of the van.”
Sep 30, 2025: report to the state1 deficiency
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Not Under the Influence of Alcohol or Controlled Substance
“Based on evidence gathered throughout the investigation, it was determined that a caregiver was under the influence while caring for and transporting children.”
Sep 19, 2025: assessment1 deficiency
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Director Certificate Not Renewed
Jul 15, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies
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Safety - Play Materials and Equipment Safe
“Outside play sturcture has broken sharp edges.”
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Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained
“Loos fill surrounding the slide play structure is inadequate.”
May 6, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies
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Prohibited Punishments - Humiliating, Rejecting, Yelling
“I heard a caregiver tell a crying child “girl shut up””
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Required Equipment in Vehicles - Fire Extinguisher
“School van LP# KCP 2668 is missing a fire extinguisher.”
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Safety Requirements for Cribs - Label for Each Infant
“Infant cribs do not have the names of the infants assigned to the crib.”
Feb 13, 2025: inspection3 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“A child walked down a hallway, across the gym and out the backdoor of the building where the director and I were on the playground.”
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Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions
“The operation did not have a working safety alarm installed in either van they are currently using to transport children.”
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Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
“The wood paneling to fix the broken fence must be secured. This should not be able to be moved by the wind or by children. Wooden logs with nails protruding must be removed as they pose a safety hazard. There is a hole on one section of the concrete fencing which needs to be covered.”
Jan 27, 2025: inspection6 deficiencies
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AP Background check results - Must receive notification prior to allowing subject to be present at your operation
“Caregiver was observed to have direct access to children without an active background check.”
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Driver Has Current Driver’s License
“Two out of the three drivers did not have valid drivers license available for review.”
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Electronic Child Safety Alarm - installed and maintained according to manufacturer’s instructions
“The operation did not have a working safety alarm installed in van used to transport children.”
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Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children’s names and ages
“Caregivers did not know the birthdays of the children they were responsible for.”
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Maintenance of Building, Grounds and Equipment
“The operation has a broken fence area also has logs with sharp nails sticking out of the wood accessible to children.”
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Required Records Storage
“The operation did not have bus log records available for review for the past 3 months.”
Jan 24, 2025: report to the state2 deficiencies
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Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity
“The operation leaves children unattended in the classroom for unspecified amounts of time.”
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Child Passenger Safety Seat System - 4 through 7 years of age, outgrown weight or height limit of seat and less than 4 feet, 9 inches in height
“The required safety seats are not being used for transporting.”
Oct 17, 2024: inspection2 deficiencies
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Signed Admission Form
“One child’s parent has not signed and dated their admission paperwork and have been enrolled over 1 year.”
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Required Health Statement - Written, dated within past year, indicates child is physically able to participate in operation’s child-care program
“Two children were missing health statements and have been enrolled over 1 year.”
Mar 27, 2024: inspection3 deficiencies
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Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact
“Three out ten children records reviewed did not have completed emergency contacts on file.”
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Children’s Records - Health Statement
“Two out of ten children records reviewed did not have health statements on file.”
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Children’s Records - Immunizations
“One out of ten children records reviewed did not have immunizations on file.”
Dec 12, 2023: inspection8 deficiencies
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Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
“The two year old class was observed to have one caregiver with twelve children. The specified age group is one caregiver to eleven children.”
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Infant Daily Report - Share with Parent
“The infant room did not have infant daily reports accessible.”
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Nutrition and Food Service - Follow Meal Patterns
“Fruit and grain was not offered during lunchtime.”
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Employee Handwashing After Diapering a Child
“A caregiver did not wash their hands after changing a child’s diaper.”
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Children Handwashing After Toileting or Diapering
“A child did not wash hands after a diaper change.”
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Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
“A window on the school age playground was broken.”
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Caregivers Have Access to Tracking System
“The infant room did not have a daily tracking sheet for children in care.”
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Individual Cot, Bed, or Mat for Each Walking Child Through 4 Years of Age
“The toddler room and the pre k room had torn mats.”
3 deficiencies older than three years
Sep 20, 2023: inspection3 deficiencies
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Written Operational Policies - Emergency Preparedness Plans
“The operation did not all information listed in the emergency preparedness plan.”
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Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - Transportation training
“One staff member who is a driver is missing transportaion training.”
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Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
“There was a bolt coming from the ground which could be a tripping hazard on the infant playground. The schoolers playground have two broken fences in which a child has access to an alley and a building hole that is accessible to children. There is paint accessible to children in the computer room.”
All 31 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2026 | Assessment | Outcome pending |
| Jul 22, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Assessment | 1 deficiency cited |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Assessment | 1 deficiency cited |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Assessment | 1 deficiency cited |
| Nov 13, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 27, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Assessment | No violation found |
| Oct 3, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Inspection | 4 deficiencies cited |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Report to the state | 1 deficiency cited |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Assessment | 1 deficiency cited |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jul 15, 2025 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| May 6, 2025 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| May 5, 2025 | Report to the state | No violation found |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Jan 27, 2025 | Inspection | 6 deficiencies cited |
| Jan 24, 2025 | Report to the state | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 17, 2024 | Inspection | 2 deficiencies cited |
| Mar 27, 2024 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Dec 12, 2023 | Inspection | 8 deficiencies cited |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Inspection | No violation found |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Inspection | 3 deficiencies cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Center, permit issued May 7, 2024.
- Accepts state child care subsidies.
- Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
- Capacity: 136 children.
Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 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 A complaint allegation the state investigated and found true: the evidence showed it more likely than not happened. Inconclusive means the evidence couldn’t show it either way. Neither inconclusive nor unsubstantiated proves it didn’t happen. Source: California Department of Social Services, complaint findings; each state’s licensing agency..
Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 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?
- Not rated in Texas Rising Star.
Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 986 child care providers in Dallas County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 38.
Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Deficiencies, 3 years |
|---|---|
| Stepping Stones Dfw, LLC This child care provider | 38 |
| Robin Stewart | 5 |
| Kellie Good | 0 |
| Achievers of Excellence Learning Academy | 9 |
| Marci Usrey | 3 |
| Small Miracles Academy-Mesquite Campus | 2 |
| Pamela Cornstubble | 1 |
| Tracy Taylor | Not given |
| Shaquella Anderson | 2 |
| Nitra’s House | 0 |
| Karlas Kids Home Child Care | 4 |
| Family Cathedral of Praise 2 | 10 |
| Jessica Webber | 5 |
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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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child care operations (bc5r-88dy).
Released Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Inspections and investigations (m5q4-3y3d).
Released Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Deficiencies (non-compliance data) (tqgd-mf4x).
Released Oct 31, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Creative Commons 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication).
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Texas Workforce Commission, Subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star.
Released Nov 2, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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