Program Name: Chautauqua Opportunities, Inc.    License/Registration ID: 688997


 Program Overview
Contact Name: Ann M. Bell Contact Title: Director
Program Type: Day Care Center Status: Pending Revocation  <
Feb 19, 2025 <
School District: Jamestown
Site Address: Map
1135 N Main St, Jamestown, NY 14701
First Licensed/Registration Date: Feb 3, 2014
Current Registration Period: Feb 3, 2024 - Feb 2, 2028
Phone: (716) 661-9430
Fax: (716) 484-4821
Total Capacity: 209
-Infants: 48
-Toddlers: 0
-Preschool: 161
-School-Age: 0
Open Child Care Slots*:
This information was self reported to OCFS on 4/4/2024 4:05:55 PM
-Infants: 2
-Toddlers: 0
-Preschool: 4
-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. This program is located in a school.
This facility has Non-Patient Specific Auto Injectors.

For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact
Office: Buffalo Regional Office
Phone: (716) 847-3828
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  
Apr 16, 2025 Monitoring - Enforcement 2024-I-BRO-116564 No violations cited for this Inspection
Mar 11, 2025 Self Reported Serious Incident 2025-I-BRO-027799 No violations cited for this Inspection
Feb 19, 2025 Other 2025-I-BRO-024801 No violations cited for this Inspection
Feb 14, 2025 Other 2025-I-BRO-023845 No violations cited for this Inspection
Feb 13, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2025-I-BRO-023572 Violations Found
Feb 11, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2025-I-BRO-023234 Violations Found
Jan 15, 2025 Annual Unannounced 2025-I-BRO-007690 No violations cited for this Inspection
Nov 6, 2024 Other 2024-I-BRO-105465 Violations Found
Oct 31, 2024 Complaint (Investigation Pending) 2024-I-BRO-104479 Violations Found
Aug 6, 2024 Annual Unannounced 2024-I-BRO-007672 No violations cited for this Inspection
May 29, 2024 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-BRO-048677 Violations Found
May 15, 2024 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2024-I-BRO-046854 No violations cited for this Inspection
May 8, 2024 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2024-I-BRO-045789 Violations Found
May 6, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-BRO-045352 No violations cited for this Inspection
Apr 5, 2024 Serious Injury 2024-I-BRO-040982 No violations cited for this Inspection
Apr 2, 2024 Fire Safety - Renewal 2024-I-BRO-040367 No violations cited for this Inspection
Feb 28, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-BRO-032301 No violations cited for this Inspection
Feb 6, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-BRO-023362 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jan 23, 2024 Application - Renewal 2023-I-BRO-044654 Violations Found
Jan 17, 2024 Self Reported Serious Incident 2024-I-BRO-018031 No violations cited for this Inspection
Nov 2, 2023 Self Reported Serious Incident 2023-I-BRO-049540 No violations cited for this Inspection
Sep 11, 2023 Self Reported Serious Incident 2023-I-BRO-043161 No violations cited for this Inspection
Aug 22, 2023 Monitoring 2023-I-BRO-040621 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 5, 2023 Fire Safety - TA 2023-I-BRO-035237 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jun 13, 2023 Self Reported Serious Incident 2023-I-BRO-032692 No violations cited for this Inspection
May 9, 2023 Annual Unannounced 2023-I-BRO-007642 No violations cited for this Inspection
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: Apr 16, 2025 Currently uncorrected violations: Yes
Date Regulation Description Compliance Status as of last inspection
Feb 13, 2025 418-1.7(w) Children unable to sleep during nap time shall not be confined to a sleeping surface (cot, crib, etc) but instead must be offered a supervised place for quiet play. Not Corrected
Feb 13, 2025 418-1.9(m) Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited. Not Corrected
Feb 13, 2025 418-1.10(c)(1) Child care center staff must personally make, or cause to be made, an immediate report to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment by telephone, followed by a written report within 48 hours, in the form and manner prescribed by the Office, to the child protective service of the social services district in the county in which the child resides. Not Corrected
Feb 13, 2025 418-1.15(b)(4) The staff and volunteers must be in good health and be of good character and habits. Not Corrected
Feb 11, 2025 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. Not Corrected
Feb 11, 2025 418-1.15(b)(4) The staff and volunteers must be in good health and be of good character and habits. Not Corrected
Nov 6, 2024 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
Nov 6, 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
Nov 6, 2024 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
Nov 6, 2024 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
Oct 31, 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. Not Corrected
May 29, 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
May 29, 2024 418-1.9(m) Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited. Corrected
May 29, 2024 418-1.10(a) Any abuse or maltreatment of a child is prohibited. A day care center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by an staff, volunteer or any other person. An abused child or maltreated child means a child defined as an abused child or maltreated child pursuant to Section 412 of the Social Services Law. Not Corrected
May 29, 2024 418-1.13(a)(1) Staff and volunteers must be mature, of good character and possess suitable personal qualifications. Corrected
May 8, 2024 418-1.11(a)(2) The written medical statement from the health care provider must also state whether the child is a child with special health care needs and, if so, what special provisions, if any, will be necessary in order for the child to participate in child day care. When the written statement from the health care provider advises the day care program that the child being enrolled is a child with special health care needs, the day care program must work together with the parent and the child's health care provider to develop a reasonable health care plan for the child while the child is in the child day care program. The health care plan for the child must also address how the day care program will obtain or develop any additional competencies that the staff will need to have in order to carry out the health care plan for the child. Corrected
Jan 23, 2024 418-1.11(b)(6) The initial medical statement for staff and volunteers must include the results of a Mantoux tuberculin test or other federally approved tuberculin test performed within the 12 months preceding the date of the application. Corrected
Jan 23, 2024 418-1.15(c)(3) 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: the name, address, gender, and date of birth of each child and each child's parents' names, addresses, telephone numbers and place(s) at which the parents or other persons responsible for the child can be reached in case of an emergency; 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: Buffalo Regional Office
Phone: (716) 847-3828

 Enforcement History
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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