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25 | On March 11, 2022 at 2:46 PM, Licensing Program Analysts (LPAs) Francisco Pedroza and Rosie Breault conducted an unannounced Case Management - incident inspection. LPAs met with Director Stephanie Saucedo and advised her the purpose of the inspection. Director provided LPAs a tour of the facility inside and out. There was 15 children in care at the time of the inspection.
On February 23, 2022, Community Care Licensing was informed of an incident that occurred on February 16, 2022. According to the incident report, at around 3:00 PM C1 and C2 were seated at the table having their afternoon snack. While eating their snacks, C3 observed C1 and C2 were touching each other inappropriately. C3 informed staff of the incident. The staff investigated and had the children separate from one another.
On March 11, 2022, LPAs were following-up on the incident and conducting interviews with staff. During the interviews, LPAs were informed about another incident that occurred on February 17, 2022 where the children were outside playing on the playground. During the incident C5 was observed by C1, C2, and C4, pulling his pants down and exposing them self. C1 then touched them self inappropriately on the school handball wall.
During both incidents staff did not observe either incident occur, it was not until the children brought it to staff attention that the children were separated for the first incident on 2/16/2022. Staff failed to implement proper supervision as another incident involving the same children occurred again on 2/17/2022. Staff interviews confirmed that the staff were not positioned in areas where they can physically observe the children when the incidents occurred in the outdoor recreation yard.
Any unusual incident that threatens the physical or emotional health or safety of any child shall be reported by telephone or fax within the Department's next working day and during its normal business hours.
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