Coyote Valley Childcare Center-preschool
Coyote Valley Childcare Center-preschool was a licensed child care center in Middletown, CA, licensed for up to 30 children. Its license closed around June 2024. Since February 2021, the state inspected it twice, investigated 2 complaints (1 substantiated) and issued 2 citations, both of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
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Based on interviews, staff have pushed children or pulled on the arms children on more than one occasion, handling the children in care in a rough manner. This poses an immediate health and safety or personal rights risk to the children in care. 8 Additionally, D1 stated she will create an outline of staff trainings to include topics like positive discipline and classroom management with staff and the dates the meetings will be conducted. D1 will email staff sign in sheets titled with the trainings conducted to email: amy.strother@dss.ca.gov
Based on interviews, staff on more than one occasion, yelled or spoke angrily to children in care. This poses an immediate health and safety or personal rights risk to the children in care. 8 Additionally, D1 stated she will create an outline of staff trainings to include topics like positive discipline, classroom management and positive language with staff and the dates the meetings will be conducted. D1 will email staff sign in sheets titled with the trianing conducted to email: amy.strother@dss.ca.gov
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Citations are quoted from California Department of Social Services inspection and complaint reports. Type A citations are the state’s most serious category (an immediate risk to children’s health, safety or personal rights); Type B citations are a potential risk. A citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall. Complaint allegations appear here only when the state substantiated them.
To read the full state reports, search facility number 173003679 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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