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The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island

200 W. Main St., Bay Shore, NY 117063.9· 111 reviews
licensed capacity
251
a week, county median
$325
year first licensed
1996

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About

About The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island

The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island is a licensed child care center in Bay Shore, New York. The state has licensed it since August 21, 1996, for up to 251 children, serving infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children.

It describes its programs: after-school care, before-school care, drop-in care and infant care.

New York State Office of Children and Family Services made 51 visits in the last 3 years and cited 43 rules across 17 of them. The visit list, in the state's words, is below.

InfantsPreschool / pre-KBefore- and after-schoolSummer camp

Ages served: infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children

From the state license. Ages it lists: 6 months old - 12 years old (Child Watch program)
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Type
Child care center
Ages
Infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children
Hours today
Not listed
Licensed capacity
251 children

Hours

Hours

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Programs

Programs and care

AgesInfants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-age childrenFrom the state license. It lists: 6 months old - 12 years old (Child Watch program)
ProgramsAfter-school care, before-school care, drop-in care, infant care, pre-k, preschool and summer camp
Staff-to-child ratio1:4 Teacher-to-Child Ratio (Infant Care)
StaffCPR and First Aid Certified staff (Child Watch)
Daily lifeExtended care: Parents Night Out every first Saturday of every month
Parent updatesParent app (YMCA Daxko Mobile App)
Licensed capacity251 childrenFrom the state license
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Cost

Tuition and costs

The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island has not listed its tuition. For comparison, full-time infant care at a child care center in Suffolk County has a median price of $325 a week (U.S. Department of Labor, 2022).

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Suffolk County medians, full time, per week

Infant

Center$325
Home daycare$300

Toddler

Center$300
Home daycare$290

Preschool

Center$293
Home daycare$275

School age

Center$250
Home daycare$250

County median full-time prices at centers and home daycares, U.S. Department of Labor, National Database of Childcare Prices, 2022 (the latest year). Not this daycare's rates; prices have risen since.

State record

Inspection reports for The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island

License

Status
Licensed and operating
License type
Licensed Day Care Center
Capacity
251 children
Ages
Infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children
First licensed
1996
License number
#42935
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Summary

51 visits in the last 3 years · Last visit Aug 25, 2026: no rules cited

Rules cited on 17 of 51 visits · 43 rules in all

  • Supervision and ratios 12
  • Health, medication and illness 7
  • Building, equipment and play areas 6
  • Discipline and child guidance 5
  • Records and paperwork 4
  • Staff training and qualifications 3
  • Background checks 3
  • Safety and hazards 1
  • Transportation 1
  • Other rules 1

For comparison: 79% of New York daycares had at least one rule cited in the last 3 years; the typical daycare had 4.

A cited rule is what an inspector found on the day of a visit. It is not a rating of the daycare today.

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  1. Aug 25, 2026InspectionNo rules cited
  2. Jul 22, 2026Inspection3 rules cited
    • Health, medication and illness

      418-1.15(c)(7) 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: copies of current staff and volunteers health statements;

    • Staff training and qualifications

      418-1.14(c)(1) Each staff person and volunteer must complete a minimum of thirty (30) hours of training every two years. The required thirty (30) hours of training every two years is subject to the following conditions: Fifteen (15) of the required thirty (30) hours of training must be obtained during the person's first six months at the program.

    • Staff training and qualifications

      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 during the visit

  3. Apr 20, 2026Inspection1 rule cited
    • Health, medication and illness

      418-1.11(a)(1) No child may be accepted for care in a child care program unless the program has been furnished with a written statement signed by a health care provider verifying that the child is able to participate in child care and currently appears to be free from contagious or communicable diseases. A child's medical statement must have been completed within the 12 months preceding the date of enrollment.

  4. Mar 12, 2026InspectionNo rules cited
  5. Feb 18, 2026InspectionNo rules cited
  6. Jan 26, 2026InspectionNo rules cited
  7. Dec 4, 2025Inspection1 rule cited
    • Supervision and ratios

      418-1.8(k)(4)(i) for 3-year-old children: there must be one teacher for every seven children;

      Corrected during the visit

  8. Dec 3, 2025InspectionNo rules cited
  9. Sep 12, 2025InspectionNo rules cited
  10. Jul 10, 2025Inspection1 rule cited
    • Records and paperwork

      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.

Show 41 earlier visits
  1. Jun 2, 2025Inspection2 rules cited
    • Supervision and ratios

      418-1.8(k)(3)(i) for children between ages 18 months old and 36 months old: there must be one teacher for every five children;

      Corrected during the visit

    • Safety and hazards

      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 during the visit

  2. Mar 28, 2025Complaint investigation8 rules cited
    • Records and paperwork

      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,

    • Building, equipment and play areas

      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.

    • Health, medication and illness

      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.

    • Health, medication and illness

      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:

    • Other rules

      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:

    • Discipline and child guidance

      418-1.9(b) The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems.

    • Discipline and child guidance

      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.

    • Staff training and qualifications

      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.

  3. Mar 27, 2025Complaint investigation2 rules cited
    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

    • Building, equipment and play areas

      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 during the visit

  4. Mar 19, 2025Inspection1 rule cited
    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

  5. Mar 12, 2025VisitNo rules cited
  6. Feb 12, 2025VisitNo rules cited
  7. Feb 12, 2025VisitNo rules cited
  8. Jan 31, 2025VisitNo rules cited
  9. Jan 6, 2025Complaint investigation2 rules cited
    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

    • Transportation

      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

  10. Dec 13, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  11. Nov 1, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  12. Oct 23, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  13. Oct 16, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  14. Sep 27, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  15. Sep 17, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  16. Sep 10, 2024InspectionNo rules cited
  17. Sep 9, 2024Inspection3 rules cited
    • Health, medication and illness

      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.

    • Background checks

      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.

    • Background checks

      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.

  18. Jul 29, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  19. Jul 25, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  20. Jul 25, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  21. Jul 24, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  22. Jul 22, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  23. Jul 17, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  24. Jul 17, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  25. Jun 18, 2024Complaint investigation1 rule cited
    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

  26. Jun 13, 2024Complaint investigation2 rules cited
    • Records and paperwork

      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,

    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

  27. Jun 7, 2024Inspection1 rule cited
    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

  28. Jun 5, 2024InspectionNo rules cited
  29. Jun 3, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  30. May 28, 2024Complaint investigation6 rules cited
    • Discipline and child guidance

      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.

    • Discipline and child guidance

      418-1.9(b) The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems.

    • Discipline and child guidance

      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.

    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

    • Building, equipment and play areas

      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.

  31. May 17, 2024InspectionNo rules cited
  32. May 14, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  33. May 10, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  34. May 10, 2024InspectionNo rules cited
  35. Apr 30, 2024Complaint investigation5 rules cited
    • Records and paperwork

      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,

    • Health, medication and illness

      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.

    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

    • Building, equipment and play areas

      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.

    • Building, equipment and play areas

      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.

  36. Apr 26, 2024InspectionNo rules cited
  37. Apr 25, 2024InspectionNo rules cited
  38. Apr 17, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  39. Feb 23, 2024VisitNo rules cited
  40. Feb 14, 2024Visit1 rule cited
    • Supervision and ratios

      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.

  41. Feb 8, 2024Inspection3 rules cited
    • Health, medication and illness

      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;

    • Building, equipment and play areas

      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.

    • Background checks

      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.

Copied from New York State Office of Children and Family Services on October 2, 2026; the state's records start around Oct 2023. Rule wording, severity and dates are the state's.

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FAQ

Questions about The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island

Is The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island licensed?

Yes. New York State Office of Children and Family Services lists it as licensed and operating, first licensed August 21, 1996.

When was The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island last inspected?

New York State Office of Children and Family Services lists the most recent visit on August 25, 2026, with no rules cited. It lists 51 visits in the last 3 years.

Has The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island had rules cited by the state?

Yes. Inspectors cited 43 rules across 17 of 51 visits in the last 3 years. For comparison: 79% of New York daycares had at least one rule cited in the last 3 years; the typical daycare had 4. A cited rule is what an inspector found on the day of a visit. It is not a rating of the daycare today.

How many children can The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island care for?

251, the licensed capacity on the state record. It is licensed to serve infants, toddlers, preschoolers and school-age children.

What are The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island's hours?

Its hours are not listed. Call (631) 665-4255 to confirm.

How much does The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island cost?

It has not listed its tuition. Call (631) 665-4255 to ask.

What is The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island's phone number?

(631) 665-4255.

Where is The Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island?

200 W. Main St., Bay Shore, NY 11706. The nearest other daycare we list is Bay Shore Day Care Center, 0.5 miles away.

Sources: New York State Office of Children and Family Services (license and visits) · U.S. Department of Labor, 2022 (county prices).