The Teaching Tree, Southwest

2025

1. Medium riskStandard 4709/16/2025

   470 IAC 3-4.7-121 — Infant/toddler room personnel

   Documentation was not available to verify that personnel in toddler room have training specifically related to toddler development. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Not corrected
2. Medium riskStandard 4709/16/2025

   470 IAC 3-4.7-25 — Lead caregiver qualifications

   Program did not have documentation available to verify that the lead caregivers met lead caregiver qualifications. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Not corrected
3. Medium riskStandard 4709/16/2025

   470 IAC 3-4.7-21 — Director qualifications

   On site program director does not meet director qualifications. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Not corrected
4. Medium riskStandard 4709/16/2025

   470 IAC 3-4.7-41(a)(8) — Records, kept at the child care center, shall document the following for all current staff, substitutes, and volunteers: In-service training

   Three of six staff files do not have documentation of 12 hours of annual in-service training. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Not corrected
5. Medium riskStandard 4709/16/2025

   470 IAC 3-4.7-147 — Special needs staffing

   On site director has not completed the special needs training required of directors within six months of hire. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Not corrected
6. Medium riskStandard 4709/16/2025

   470 IAC 3-4.7-109 — Garbage and refuse

   Trash cans containing food waste not covered in kitchen and preschool classroom. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Not corrected
7. Medium riskStandard 4708/25/2025

   470 IAC 3-4.7-109 — Garbage and refuse

   The garbage can in kitchen has food waste in it and does not have a lid available to cover it. Food waste must be covered. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Corrected 9/4/2025
8. Medium risk8/25/2025

   IC 12-17.2-2-1(8) — Birth Certificate documentation

   Child file reviewed does not contain documentation of birth. Child is a foster child as of 10/13/21, program has 90 days to secure documentation of child's birth. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Corrected 8/25/2025
9. Medium riskStandard 4708/25/2025

   470 IAC 3-4.7-50(a) — In any group that has an infant or toddler, the maximum age range between the oldest and youngest child in the group shall be thirteen (13) months

   Program has not submitted necessary variance in order to care for a special needs four year old in their infant room. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

   Corrected 9/4/2025
10. Medium-High riskStandard 4708/25/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-100 — Poisons, chemicals, and hazardous items

    Both doors to laundry/electrical room open, not locked. Pro-con cleaner and a filled pump sprayer with unknown contents on low level, accessible to children. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Corrected 9/4/2025
11. Medium riskStandard 4707/11/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-41(a)(6) — Records, kept at the child care center, shall document the following for all current staff, substitutes, and volunteers: Physical examination verification form with physicians or nurse practitioners signature within thirty (30) da

    Staff member missing documentation of physical examination. Was reminded on 5/23 that she would need to have it on file by 30 days post hire. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
12. Medium riskStandard 4707/11/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-137(c) — The center shall store milk at forty-one (41) degrees Fahrenheit or below

    Refrigerator in infant room with bottles too warm, 48 degrees. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
13. High riskStandard 4707/11/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-100(a) — Poisons, chemicals, and any item that states fatal if swallowed must be in locked storage and not accessible to children

    Items accessible to children: Toddler room teacher purse hanging on side of cabinet with prescription medication bottle visible. Hand sanitizer dispenser on wall in toddler room filled and accessible to children. (Health violation.) Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
14. Medium riskStandard 4706/16/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-116(s) — The center shall place an accurate, easily readable thermometer in each compartment of the refrigerator and freezer in position for daily monitoring

    Infant freezer does not have a thermometer in it, and there was a bag of breast milk in it. Infant refrigerator that has filled bottles in it had thermometer, but is reading at 54 degrees. Temperature should be 41 degrees or lower. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
15. High riskStandard 4706/16/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-24(1) — All caregivers counted in child/staff ratios shall meet the following qualifications: They shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age

    A caregiver working in age 3-5 classroom is 17 years old, birthdate 6/18/07. 17 year-olds can only work with school age children. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
16. Medium risk6/16/2025

    IC 12-17.2-4-3.5(a)(1) — A child care center shall, at no expense to the state, maintain and make available to the division upon request a copy of drug testing results for an individual who: is employed

    One employee working with children does not have documentation of a drug screen. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
17. Medium riskStandard 4706/16/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-76(c) — Food service staff shall record menu changes as served and keep menus on file for one (1) month

    Food served for lunch is not what was on posted menu. Posted menu showed sloppy joes, sw potatoes, banana and bun. Lunch was cold ham and turkey, bun, applesauce, and gr beans. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
18. High riskStandard 4706/16/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-135 — Infant Food Preparation and Storage

    Bottles in infant refrigerator do not have time of preparation on them, just names and date of preparation. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
19. Medium-High riskStandard 4705/23/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-86(d)(2) — Documentation of complete age-appropriate immunizations, as required by the division with recommendation from ISDH, and updated annually, including: varicella vaccine or written documented history of disease by either the parent o

    One of three child files reviewed were missing up to date immuniztions. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
20. Medium-High riskStandard 4705/23/2025

    470 IAC 3-1.1-41(b)(1) — The following behavior shall be prohibited by all direct child care providers: Cruel, harsh, or unusual punishment

    The program self reported to the divison and the department of Child Services that two teachers used inappropriate discipline in the toddler room. One teacher grabbed a child by one arm and threw him down on the floor. The other staff slapped a child across the face and one staff member was heard cursing at the child. The program terminated the staff involved immediately. (Health violation.) Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
21. Medium riskStandard 4705/23/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-65 — Pets

    The program is missing a complete covering on the fish tank to prevent children from touching the water or fish Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
22. Medium-Low riskStandard 4705/23/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-86(a) — Within thirty (30) days after enrollment or no earlier than twelve (12) months prior to enrollment, each child shall have written verification of a physical examination by a physician or a nurse practitioner

    Two out of three children's files reviewed were missing a phsical examination. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
23. Medium riskStandard 4705/23/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-68(b) — The outdoor play area shall be safely enclosed, fenced, or protected from traffic by other natural barriers. Air compressors or other dangerous equipment in the outdoor play area shall be enclosed and inaccessible to children.

    On area of the fence is missing a panel, making the play area not safely encolosed. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Not corrected
24. Medium-High risk5/21/2025

    Program out of compliance with Inappropriate Discipline

    Complaint on record. Program out of compliance with Inappropriate Discipline Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Corrected 6/20/2025
25. Medium riskStandard 4704/15/2025

    470 IAC 3-4.7-3(c) — The center shall post the license in a conspicuous place that parents regularly view

    Program's probationary license not posted in program in a place parents can regularly view. Source: Indiana FSSA Child Care Finder / INspect Child Care.

    Corrected 4/16/2025