Program Name: The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island, Incorporated    License/Registration ID: 42935


 Program Overview
Contact Name: Robin A. Van Schaick Contact Title: Director
Program Type: Day Care Center Status: Pending Revocation  <
Apr 7, 2025 <
School District: Bay Shore
Site Address: Map
200 W. Main St., Bay Shore, NY 11706
First Licensed/Registration Date: Aug 21, 1996
Current Registration Period: Aug 21, 2022 - Aug 20, 2026
Phone: (631) 665-4255
Fax:
Total Capacity: 258
-Infants: 0
-Toddlers: 24
-Preschool: 133
-School-Age: 101
Open Child Care Slots*:
This information was self reported to OCFS on 10/25/2023 4:55:03 PM
-Infants: 0
-Toddlers: 20
-Preschool: 20
-School-Age: 0

*Important Note: This self reported information on open child care slots can quickly change.


Please contact this program for the most current openings.


Care available during non-traditional hours: No
Removed from referral list: Yes
This facility is approved to administer medications.

For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact
Office: Long Island Regional Office
Phone: (631) 240-2560
For additional details and to view the checklist used during an inspection, please click on the Inspection ID links below. Inspection checklists are generated per inspection type and reason. Also note, that any regulatory requirement can be assessed and cited during an inspection and as a result, may not be reflected on the inspection checklist. These items would be reflected in the program's compliance history that is posted.

 Inspection History: (Inspections in the past 24 months)

Date Inspection Type Inspection ID Inspection Result  
Mar 28, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2025-I-LIRO-030372 Violations Found
Mar 27, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2025-I-LIRO-030266 Violations Found
Mar 19, 2025 Annual Unannounced 2025-I-LIRO-002118 Violations Found
Mar 12, 2025 Self Reported Serious Incident 2025-I-LIRO-028762 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Feb 12, 2025 Self Reported Serious Incident 2025-I-LIRO-023497 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Feb 12, 2025 Self Reported Serious Incident 2025-I-LIRO-023446 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Jan 31, 2025 Self Reported Serious Incident 2025-I-LIRO-021748 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Jan 6, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-LIRO-115345 Violations Found
Dec 13, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-113578 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Nov 1, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-104904 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Oct 23, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-102732 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Oct 16, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-101384 No violations cited for this Inspection
Sep 27, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-097843 No violations cited for this Inspection
Sep 17, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-086551 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Sep 10, 2024 Documentation Review 2024-I-LIRO-084669 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Off-Site
Sep 9, 2024 Monitoring 2024-I-LIRO-086566 Violations Found
Jul 29, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-078008 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Jul 25, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-076133 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 25, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-076113 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 24, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-075901 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 22, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-075896 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Jul 17, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-074699 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 17, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-074691 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Jun 18, 2024 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-LIRO-052088 Violations Found
Jun 13, 2024 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-LIRO-051569 Violations Found
Jun 7, 2024 Documentation Review 2024-I-LIRO-050673 Violations Found
Inspection Conducted Off-Site
Jun 5, 2024 Fire Safety - Other 2024-I-LIRO-050894 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jun 3, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-049808 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
May 28, 2024 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-LIRO-048436 Violations Found
May 17, 2024 Documentation Review 2024-I-LIRO-047614 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Off-Site
May 14, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-046890 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
May 10, 2024 Documentation Review 2024-I-LIRO-046426 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
May 10, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-046379 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Apr 30, 2024 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-LIRO-044237 Violations Found
Apr 26, 2024 Documentation Review 2024-I-LIRO-044011 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Off-Site
Apr 25, 2024 Fire Safety - Other 2024-I-LIRO-044241 No violations cited for this Inspection
Apr 17, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-042672 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Feb 23, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-029324 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Feb 14, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-LIRO-024720 Violations Found
Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Feb 8, 2024 Annual Unannounced 2024-I-LIRO-001729 Violations Found
Sep 25, 2023 Monitoring 2023-I-LIRO-043694 Violations Found
Jun 9, 2023 Self Reported Serious Incident 2023-I-LIRO-031967 No violations cited for this Inspection Inspection Conducted Outside of Program Operating Hours
Apr 28, 2023 Annual Unannounced 2023-I-LIRO-001177 Violations Found
Additional Inspection History

*Inspections may be conducted outside of program operating hours and/or off-site(where inspector was not on premises where care is provided) for the following reasons:
-Record/File Review
-Interviewing of Staff
-Or Other Investigative Reasons

 Compliance History
Date of Last Inspection: Mar 28, 2025 Currently uncorrected violations: Yes
Date Regulation Description Compliance Status as of last inspection
Mar 28, 2025 418-1.8(b) The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children. Not Corrected
Mar 28, 2025 418-1.9(a) The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors. Not Corrected
Mar 28, 2025 418-1.9(b) The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems. Not Corrected
Mar 28, 2025 418-1.10(c) In accordance with the provisions of Sections 413 and 415 of the Social Services Law, child care center staff must immediately report any suspected incidents of child abuse or maltreatment concerning a child receiving child care to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment, or cause such a report to be made, when such staff have reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them in their capacity as child care center workers is an abused or maltreated child. This must be done in the following manner: Not Corrected
Mar 28, 2025 418-1.11(c)(1) The licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all staff and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program's health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are: Not Corrected
Mar 28, 2025 418-1.11(i)(1) Staff and volunteers must thoroughly wash their hands with soap and running water at the beginning of each day, before and after the administration of medications, when they are dirty, after toileting or assisting children with toileting, after changing a diaper, before and after food handling or eating, after handling pets or other animals, after contact with any bodily secretion or fluid, and after coming in from outdoors. Not Corrected
Mar 28, 2025 418-1.15(b)(9)(v) Electronic monitoring devices or surveillance cameras are permitted to transmit images of children in common rooms, hallways and play areas only. Bathrooms and changing areas must remain private and free of all video surveillance equipment. Not Corrected
Mar 28, 2025 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii) The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident, Not Corrected
Mar 27, 2025 418-1.5(aa) The following items must be used and stored in such a manner that they are not accessible to children: handbags, backpacks or briefcases belonging to adults; plastic bags; and toys and objects small enough for young children to swallow. Corrected
Mar 27, 2025 418-1.8(a) Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Not Corrected
Mar 19, 2025 418-1.8(l)(8) Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, children under three years of age may not participate in mixed age groups except for limited periods of time at the beginning and end of the child day care center's daily operation. Corrected
Jan 6, 2025 418-1.5(a)(1)(i) The program must take suitable precautions to prevent the following: serious injury of a child while in care at the program or being transported by the program; and Corrected
Jan 6, 2025 418-1.8(a) Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Corrected
Sep 9, 2024 413.4(d)(2) Every licensee and registrant shall submit fingerprint images for each prospective director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older prospectively living in a group family day care home or family day care home. Corrected
Sep 9, 2024 413.4(d)(6) Pending notification of completion of all required background check components in subdivision (a) of this section, a prospective director, employee or volunteer must always be supervised by an individual who received a qualifying result on the background checks described in paragraph (a) of this section within the past five years. A provisional director, employee or volunteer shall not have unsupervised contact with children in care. Corrected
Sep 9, 2024 418-1.11(b)(1)(ii) Staff and volunteers must each submit a medical statement on forms furnished by the Office or an approved equivalent from a health care provider: before such person has any involvement in child care work. Corrected
Jun 18, 2024 418-1.8(a) Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Corrected
Jun 13, 2024 418-1.8(a) Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Corrected
Jun 13, 2024 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii) The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident, Corrected
Jun 7, 2024 418-1.8(a) Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Corrected
May 28, 2024 418-1.7(c) Each program must provide a sufficient quantity and variety of materials and play equipment appropriate to the ages of the children and their developmental levels and interests, including children with developmental delays or disabilities, which promote the children's cognitive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional, language and recreational development. Corrected
May 28, 2024 418-1.8(a) Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Corrected
May 28, 2024 418-1.8(n) The use of any type of personal electronic media device for social or entertainment purposes, including but not limited to, listening to music on headphones, playing screen games, surfing the internet, sending e-mails, or making personal calls while supervising children is prohibited. The use of mobile phones is permitted as necessary to promote the children's safety and ensuring the orderly operation of the program. Corrected
May 28, 2024 418-1.9(a) The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors. Corrected
May 28, 2024 418-1.9(b) The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems. Corrected
May 28, 2024 418-1.9(j) Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Subpart, the term corporal punishment means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child's mouth soap, foods, hot spices or irritants or the like. Corrected
Apr 30, 2024 418-1.3(a)(3) Child care can only be provided in the areas that have been included in the diagram and approved as child care space. Corrected
Apr 30, 2024 418-1.5(n)(5) All programs that substantially modify, or install new, outside play equipment must do so in accordance with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Public Playground Safety Handbook. Corrected
Apr 30, 2024 418-1.8(l)(9) When toddlers are cared for with preschool children in a mixed age group at the very beginning or very end of the day, the teacher/child ratio and maximum group size applicable to children aged 18 months to 36 months must be followed. Corrected
Apr 30, 2024 418-1.11(i)(2) Staff and volunteers must ensure that children thoroughly wash their hands or assist children with thoroughly washing their hands with soap and running water when they are dirty, after toileting, before and after food handling or eating, after handling pets or other animals, after contact with any bodily secretion or fluid, and after coming in from outdoors. Corrected
Apr 30, 2024 418-1.15(b)(14)(ii) The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious incident, Corrected
Feb 14, 2024 418-1.8(a) Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher's range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child's age emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Corrected
Feb 8, 2024 413.4(d)(2) Every licensee and registrant shall submit fingerprint images for each prospective director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older prospectively living in a group family day care home or family day care home. Corrected
Feb 8, 2024 418-1.3(a)(3) Child care can only be provided in the areas that have been included in the diagram and approved as child care space. Corrected
Feb 8, 2024 418-1.11(c)(2)(i) The health care plan must describe the following: how a daily health check of each child for any indication of illness, injury, abuse or maltreatment will be conducted and documented; Corrected
Sep 25, 2023 418-1.11(c)(2)(i) The health care plan must describe the following: how a daily health check of each child for any indication of illness, injury, abuse or maltreatment will be conducted and documented; Corrected
Sep 25, 2023 418-1.14(b) Each applicant for, or individual in the position of director, teacher, or volunteer must complete Office-approved training that complies with federal minimum health and safety pre-service or three-month orientation period requirements. This training must be obtained pre-service or within three months of starting such position. Corrected
Apr 28, 2023 413.4(d)(2) Every licensee and registrant shall submit fingerprint images for each prospective director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older prospectively living in a group family day care home or family day care home. Corrected
Apr 28, 2023 418-1.3(c) Before any change is made, the Office must be notified and must approve the re-designation of a classroom to a different age group of children. Corrected
Apr 28, 2023 418-1.5(a) Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard. Corrected
Apr 28, 2023 418-1.8(k)(5)(i) for 4-year-old children: there must be one teacher for every eight children; Corrected
Apr 28, 2023 418-1.11(c)(2)(i) The health care plan must describe the following: how a daily health check of each child for any indication of illness, injury, abuse or maltreatment will be conducted and documented; Corrected
Apr 28, 2023 418-1.15(c)(5) The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: daily attendance records, which must be filled out at the time a child arrives and departs, and must include arrival and departure times; Corrected
*Violations are posted on this web site after the inspection results have been finalized in a report mailed to the provider. Violations are listed here as 'Corrected' after the Office has verified corrections with the provider, and a letter confirming the corrections has been mailed to the provider.
For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact
Office: Long Island Regional Office
Phone: (631) 240-2560

 Enforcement History
The New York State Office of Children and Family Services uses a range of tools to help bring child care programs into compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

The enforcement actions listed on this website only include denial, revocation or suspension of a child care program's license or registration. Fines are not shown on this website. OCFS stops referring families to the program if a program's license or registration is closed, revoked or suspended.

Other enforcement actions such as Corrective action plans and fines are not shown on this website.
Enforcement Actions since April, 2020: Yes