Program Name: The Rochester Childfirst Network    License/Registration ID: 39692


 Program Overview
Contact Name: Jessica L. Zambuto Contact Title: Director
Program Type: Day Care Center Status: Open
School District: Rochester
Site Address: Map
941 South Ave, Rochester, NY 14620-2746
First Licensed/Registration Date: Feb 1, 1990
Current Registration Period: Feb 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2028
Phone: (585) 473-2858
Fax: (585) 461-3771
Total Capacity: 179
-Infants: 8
-Toddlers: 12
-Preschool: 120
-School-Age: 39
Open Child Care Slots*:
This information was self reported to OCFS on 8/26/2024 7:38:47 AM
-Infants: 0
-Toddlers: 0
-Preschool: 0
-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: No
This facility is approved to administer medications.
This facility has Non-Patient Specific Auto Injectors.

For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact
Office: Rochester Regional Office
Phone: (585) 238-8531
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  
Jul 7, 2025 Fire Safety - Other 2025-I-RRO-050592 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jun 10, 2025 Complaint (Substantiated) 2025-I-RRO-045620 Violations Found
May 28, 2025 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2025-I-RRO-042604 No New Violations
May 6, 2025 Complaint (Investigation Pending) 2025-I-RRO-037471 Results Pending
Mar 24, 2025 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2025-I-RRO-029253 No New Violations
Feb 14, 2025 Annual Unannounced 2025-I-RRO-001601 No violations cited for this Inspection
Oct 4, 2024 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-RRO-098088 Violations Found
Oct 3, 2024 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2024-I-RRO-098666 No New Violations
Aug 6, 2024 Fire Safety - Other 2024-I-RRO-078503 No violations cited for this Inspection
May 2, 2024 Application - Renewal 2023-I-RRO-044309 No violations cited for this Inspection
Apr 26, 2024 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-RRO-046406 Violations Found
Apr 26, 2024 Complaint (Substantiated) 2024-I-RRO-043282 Violations Found
Apr 5, 2024 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2024-I-RRO-040369 No violations cited for this Inspection
Apr 5, 2024 Annual Unannounced 2024-I-RRO-001193 No violations cited for this Inspection
Oct 16, 2023 Complaint (Unsubstantiated) 2023-I-RRO-047842 Violations Found
Sep 19, 2023 Self Reported Serious Incident 2023-I-RRO-044526 No violations cited for this Inspection
Sep 19, 2023 Self Reported Serious Incident 2023-I-RRO-044136 No violations cited for this Inspection
Sep 12, 2023 Self Reported Serious Incident 2023-I-RRO-043566 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 17, 2023 Fire Safety - TA 2023-I-RRO-036631 No violations cited for this Inspection
Jul 17, 2023 Monitoring 2023-I-RRO-036545 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: Jul 7, 2025 Currently uncorrected violations: Yes
Date Regulation Description Compliance Status as of last inspection
Jun 10, 2025 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. Not Corrected
Jun 10, 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
Jun 10, 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
Jun 10, 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
Oct 4, 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
Oct 4, 2024 418-1.9(b) The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems. Corrected
Oct 4, 2024 418-1.9(d) Behavior management must promote self-esteem in children and guide children in such a way as to help each child develop self-control and assume responsibility for his or her actions through clear and consistent rules and limits appropriate to the ages and development of the children in care. Corrected
Apr 26, 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 26, 2024 418-1.9(b) The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems. Corrected
Apr 26, 2024 418-1.9(m) Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited. Corrected
Oct 16, 2023 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
Oct 16, 2023 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: Corrected
Oct 16, 2023 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
*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: Rochester Regional Office
Phone: (585) 238-8531

 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 July, 2020: Yes