Taconic Early Education Program

Regulation 3.3.5: The licensee, staff, and auxiliary staff shall be trained in prevention, identification and mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.

“Three staff members do not have documentation of completing the Protecting Vermont's Children in their BFIS accounts. Documentation was not provided in the week following the site visit. Corrective Action: Immediately ensure that these staff members complete this training. Send the training to Northern Lights for entry into BFIS accounts and copy sarrah.crosier@vermont.gov on the emails to Northern Lights. Create a plan to ensure that all new staff complete this training prior to working with children.”

Correction date in the state record: May 27, 2025

Regulation 5.6.5: All prescription medication administered by staff shall be in its original container, properly labeled for the child, and administered prior to the expiration date on the container.

“One emergency medical device was present in the program without original packaging and without the pharmacy label identifying who it was prescribed to. Corrective Action: Develop a plan to ensure that all medication on site meets licensing requirements. Send plan to sarah.crosier@vermont.gov for approval.”

Correction date in the state record: May 27, 2025

Regulation 3.3.5: The licensee, staff, and auxiliary staff shall be trained in prevention, identification and mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.

“Seven staff members have not completed the required mandated reporter training Protecting Vermont's Children. Corrective Action: Immediately ensure that all staff members have completed this traning. Send a copy of the certificate to Northern Lights and copy sarah.crosier@vermont.gov”

Correction date in the state record: May 15, 2024

Regulation 3.4.6.1: The licensee shall maintain a record of the date of each evacuation drill as required in the rules in section 3.7.2 of these regulations that includes the number of children and staff evacuated, time taken to evacuate, and notation of the drill conducted while children were sleeping or resting. Evacuation records shall be kept for two (2) years. When the CBCCPP counts lock-down drills as allowed in the rules in section 3.7.2 of these regulations, the licensee shall maintain a record of the date of each lock-down drill, the number of CBCCPP children and staff who participated, and note that the drill performed was a lock-down drill.

“Two evacuation drills were completed in October 2020. One bus evacuation was completed in November 2020 and another in April 2021. Both were timed at 5 minutes. In January and March of 2021, Instructional Drills were conducted but the children did not physically evacuate or lock down. In December 2020 and February 2021, no drills were conducted. Director Deb Fishwick stated that these drills were conducted in accordance with Agency of Education Guidance. Corrective Action: Ensure that emergency drills are conducted once each in May and June. After the June drill is completed, email a copy of the documentation of the drills to sarah.crosier@vermont.gov.”

Correction date in the state record: Jun 1, 2021

Regulation 3.4.7.3: Within six (6) months of the initial date of employment; staff and auxiliary staff left alone with children and/or counted in staff/child ratio as specified in the rule 6.2.1.8 of these regulations, and the program director shall maintain an up-to-date BFIS Quality and Credential Account. Documentation, verification of qualifications, and all annual professional development activities as specified in the rules in sections 7.3 and 7.4 of these regulations shall be submitted to Northern Lights at CCV to be verified and maintained in BFIS.

“Training and qualification data and documents are available for up to 9 staff members, and has not yet been submitted to Northern Lights for entry into BFIS Quality and Credential accounts. Corrective Action: Send all required documents to Northern Lights for entry into BFIS. Develop a plan to ensure that future documents are submitted in such a way that BFIS quality and credential accounts are kept up to date. Email sarah.crosier@vermont.gov once these items are completed.”

Correction date in the state record: May 27, 2021

Regulation 3.7.2.2: The licensee shall ensure that evacuation drills are conducted at least once a month, and children and staff are evacuated in under three (3) minutes.

“The program does a drill each month, but follow what the rest of the school does so some are evacuation and some are lockdown. This was noted on a document shown to this licensor by the program director and the practice was confirmed by the director. Corrective Action: Conduct one evacuation drill each month. For the months of May and June, please send the documentation of the drills (as defined in 3.4.6.1) to sarah.crosier@vermont.gov upon completion.”

Correction date in the state record: Jun 10, 2019