Joyful Beginnings
Joyful Beginnings is a licensed child care center in Lafayette, CA, licensed for up to 85 children and serving children in more than one age group. It has held its California license since 2024. Since February 2021, state licensing staff have inspected it 2 times. The state issued 1 citation, 0 of them Type A (the most serious). None came in the last 12 months. Measured by weighted citations per inspection, it is tied for #12 of 22 centers in Lafayette and better than 46% of licensed centers statewide.
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Facility has replaced the faucet and is scheduled to re-test. Facility provided all documentation for lead test. By COB 03/19/2025, facility will submit results from retested outlets to licensing. Per Lead Testing results, there is 2 drinking water outlets inside the facility with lead exceedance. Director states both outlets have not been used. Due to children having access to the water fountain, this poses/posed potential risk to health/safety of children.
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Common questions
Has Joyful Beginnings had any serious violations?
No Type A citations since 2021. It has 1 Type B citation, listed above.
How does Joyful Beginnings compare with other daycares in Lafayette?
It is tied for #12 of 22 centers in Lafayette by weighted citations per inspection, and is better than 46% of licensed centers statewide (out of 10,948 California centers with enough inspection history).
When was Joyful Beginnings last inspected?
Sep 1, 2026. No citations were issued during that visit.
How much does Joyful Beginnings cost?
California does not publish individual centers’ prices, so ask Joyful Beginnings for its current tuition. For comparison, the median full-time price at licensed centers in Contra Costa County, which includes Lafayette, was $1,730 a month for infants (about $2,180 today), $1,287 a month for preschoolers (about $1,620 today) and $800 a month for school-age children (about $1,010 today) in the state’s 2021 Regional Market Rate Survey.
Who runs Joyful Beginnings?
The licensee is Lafayette United Methodist Church, and the administrator listed with the state is Taryn Boelk Lee.
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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 073408890 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 2, 2026.