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Armed Services YMCA Child Development Center Norfolk

Inspection · 2025-06-25

Date
2025-06-25
Complaint Related
No
Licensing Inspector
D'Nae Goodwin
(757) 404-3063
SHSIA monitoring inspection of an approved subsidy vendor to determine compliance with current subsidy requirements regarding the health and safety of children and to promote quality standards for the children in their care.
No

Areas Reviewed

8VAC20-780 Administration.
8VAC20-780 Programs.
8VAC20-770 Background Checks

During the inspection, the inspector reviewed the areas listed above. Unless otherwise noted as a violation within this inspection report, the provider was in compliance with the standards reviewed. If there were any serious injuries or fatalities related to a violation, the details will be included in the description of the violation.

Inspector Notes

An unannounced monitoring inspection was initiated on 6/25/25 and completed on 7/22/25 in response to a self-report received by the licensing office on 6/6/25 relating to forbidden actions. The inspector reviewed 10 children?s records and one staff record on-site. This inspection included document review, a tour of the facility, interviews, and observations. Information gathered during the inspection determined non-compliance with applicable standards or law, and violations are documented on the violation notice issued to the program. Though not a part of the original self report, violations that were not reported were found related to background checks and is documented on the violation notice issued to the program.

Please complete the plan of correction (POC) and date to be corrected sections for each violation cited on the violation notice. Specify how the violation will be or has been corrected. Submit your POC within five (5) business days from today, which will be the close of business on 8/18/25. A POC submitted after this date will not appear on the public website.

Violations

3
Standard 22.1-289.035-B-2
Centers must obtain a completed national criminal background check prior to the employee's first day of employment.
The criminal history check for Staff #1 (employed for over two months) show that the staff member's criminal history check was not completed prior to employment, which is required.
Plan of Correction: The center will ensure that all background checks are completed prior to the first day of employment.
Standard 8VAC20-780-40-E
A licensee shall ensure that the center?s activities are maintained in compliance with the
center?s own policies that are required by standards.
The center?s guidance techniques and procedures (discipline policy) states that "there will never be any redirection of behavior that involves the following: rough handling (grabbing)." Staff #1 did not follow the center's procedures for guidance techniques. In response to children's behavior, Staff #1 dragged two preschool age children down a hallway in the center, in two separate incidents that occurred on 6/5/25.
Plan of Correction: Because the employee violated the policies of the company, she was terminated
on the same day that the incident happened.
Standard 8VAC20-780-410-1
The following actions or threats thereof are forbidden: rough handling a child.
On 6/5/25, Staff #1 tried picking up Child #1 (four years old) and when the attempt was unsuccessful, the staff member proceeded to drag the child down a hallway that was approximately 80 feet in length. Once the staff member and child reached the classroom, the staff member pushed the child's body into the classroom using their foot. In a second instance on 6/5/25, Staff #1 also dragged Child #2 (three years old) by the arm down a hallway that was approximately 32 feet in length, after the child resisted coming into the classroom.
Plan of Correction: The employee was terminated the same day that the incident happened.
View original record on Virginia Department of Social Services