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August 19, 2025 CERTIFIED MAIL Dawn Jensen 68 West Road Circle Pines, MN 55014-1617 License Number 808291 FCC ORDER OF CONDITIONAL LICENSE Dear Ms. Jensen: Based on the recommendation from, Anoka County Human Services (Anoka County), the Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is placing your license to provide family child care at 68 West Road, Circle Pines, MN on conditional status for one year, beginning August 19, 2025. This means you must meet certain conditions to maintain your license, detailed below. This order is based on your level of noncompliance with family child care licensing requirements. Our next steps and your options are also provided below. REASON FOR THE CONDITIONAL LICENSE 1. Commissioner’s evaluation of program In determining whether a licensing action is warranted, DCYF evaluated the facts, conditions, and circumstances concerning your program’s operation. This includes consideration of the well-being of children served in your program, available evaluations from consumers of your program, and information about the qualifications of caregivers working in your program. Specifically, because you failed to provide required supervision, because you failed to operate within the terms of your license, because you failed to comply with correction orders, because you failed to provide documentation of required training, because you failed to maintain your fire extinguisher, and because you failed to provide documentation of crib safety inspections as required. DCYF has determined that it is appropriate to place your license on conditional status based on the violations identified below and the program evaluation. Legal Authority: Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.10, subdivision 13. 2. Failure to comply with licensing laws and rules As a result of previous licensing visits, Anoka County determined that your program failed to comply with the laws and rules for licensed family child care. DCYF has considered the nature, chronicity, and severity of these violations, which are provided below. Legal Authority: Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.16, subdivision 1. Nature, history and severity of violations Licensing violations determined The following violations summarize the nature of your previous licensing violations. Because these violations are now conclusive, the individual violations are not within the scope of your appeal rights. Please refer to the previously issued correction orders for further details on these violations. If you do not have copies of these orders, contact your Anoka County licensor for assistance. DCYF also considered this history as a factor when it determined that a Conditional License is appropriate. On June 10, 2025, Anoka County made an unannounced visit to your family child care program. As a result of the visit, you were issued a correction order for the following licensing violations: · Failure to operate within the licensed capacity of your license when you were caring for an infant. Your license specified that you were not caring for infants. · Failure to provide required supervision to children in care, when an infant was sleeping behind a closed door with no monitor in use and a preschool age child was outdoors without adult supervision. · Failure to document monthly crib safety inspections. · Failure to document annual crib safety recall checks as required. · Failure to ensure that garbage containers were inaccessible to infants and toddlers in care. On October 3, 2024, Anoka County issued you a correction order for the following licensing violations: · Failure to ensure that scissors were inaccessible to children in care. · Failure to provide a covered diaper disposal container in the diapering area as required. · Failure to provide documentation of a written emergency plan. · Failure to provide documentation of 16 hours of ongoing training as required. · Failure to provide documentation of completed admission and arrangement forms as required. · Failure to document annual crib safety recall checks as required. On December 28, 2022, DCYF issued you an Order to Pay a Fine of $200 for failure to comply with the correction order dated October 20, 2022. On December 12, 2022, Anoka County issued you a correction order for failure to comply with the correction order October 20, 2022, when you failed to submit four hours of ongoing training and failure to provide documentation that your fire extinguisher was serviced. October 20, 2022, Anoka County issued you a correction order for the following licensing violations: · Failure to provide documentation that your fire extinguisher was maintained as required. · Failure to provide documentation of 16 hours of ongoing training as required. On July 13, 2021, Anoka County issued you a correction order for failure to provide required supervision when children were outdoors unattended. On October 15, 2019, Anoka County issued you a correction order for the following licensing violations: · Failure to provide documentation of 16 hours on ongoing training as required. · Failure to provide documentation of current sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) reduction requirements or abusive head trauma (AHT) training as required. · Failure to provide documentation of current cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training as required. · Failure to provide documentation of current first aid training as required. · Failure to provide documentation of supervising for safety training as required. · Failure to provide documentation that your fire extinguisher was maintained as required. Severity of violations Due to the serious and chronic nature of these violations, and the conditions in the program, which impact the health and safety of children served in your care, your license to provide family child care is placed on a conditional status. Conditional License Terms In addition to the licensing rules and statutes for family child care, you are required to comply with the following terms: 1. You must follow and comply with all applicable Minnesota Rules and Laws. 2. No variances to age distribution or capacity will be granted during the conditional period. 3. You must submit a detailed written plan for how you will provide required supervision at all times both indoors and outdoors. The plan must include steps you have taken or changes you have made in the program to ensure children are supervised as required and to prevent further supervision violations. The plan must be submitted to Anoka County within 15 days of the issuance of this order and must be approved by Anoka County. 4. You must work with Anoka County to obtain a mentor to work on ensuring you are following all family child care rules and laws with an emphasis on supervision, record keeping including children’s files, crib inspections, storm drill logs, and training. The mentor must be obtained within 30 days of the issuance of this order. 5. You must obtain a minimum of six hours of additional training within 90 days of this order. The training is in addition to the annual training requirements as listed in Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.70. The training must be in the area of supervision, record keeping and business management. You must obtain approval from Anoka County that the training is appropriate, and you must submit documentation of your attendance to Anoka County. 6. You must either provide a copy of the Order of Conditional License to parents of children in care or document that all parents have been given an opportunity to review the order. You must obtain parent signatures of each currently enrolled child, indicating they have either received a copy of the order or had an opportunity to review the order and submit documentation to Anoka County within 15 days of the issuance of this order. For new families, you must submit documentation of compliance with this term to Anoka County within 5 days of any child’s admission to your child care program. Ongoing Monitoring Your Anoka County licensor will monitor your compliance with these terms and with all of the family child care rules and laws. This will include unannounced visits. If you fail to demonstrate substantial compliance with family child care requirements or with the terms of your conditional license that are provided above, DCYF may take an additional licensing sanction, including a revocation of your license. YOUR RIGHT TO REQUEST RECONSIDERATION You have the right to request reconsideration of this order and the cited violations. Your request must: · Be in writing · Clearly state that you are requesting reconsideration of the conditional license · List each citation you are challenging and identify what is inaccurate or incomplete about the information in the order · Supply information that is accurate or more complete · State why you believe your license should not be on a conditional status · Be made before the deadlines provided below If you are mailing your request, it must be sent by certified mail and postmarked within 10 calendar days from when you received this order. If you do not meet this deadline, you lose your right to request reconsideration. The timeline to appeal began when you received this order. Please send it to: Commissioner, Department of Children, Youth, and Families Office of Inspector General Legal Counsel’s Office Attention: Licensing Legal Unit PO Box 64953 St. Paul, MN 55164-0953 If your request is being personally delivered, it must be received by DCYF within 10 calendar days from when you received this order. Please bring it to: Commissioner, Department of Children, Youth, and Families Office of Inspector General Legal Counsel’s Office Attention: Licensing Legal Unit 444 Lafayette Road North St. Paul, MN 55155 Conditional license stayed pending reconsideration If you request reconsideration within the timeframes described above, the terms of the conditional license will not take effect until a decision is issued by DCYF. If the conditional license is affirmed on reconsideration, the terms would take effect on the date of the reconsideration decision and run for one year from that date. You continue to be required to comply with all family child care laws and rules. Prohibition against providing legally unlicensed child care On December 28, 2022, DCYF issued an Order of Fine to your family child care program, which disqualified you from providing legally unlicensed child care. You remain prohibited from providing legally unlicensed child care even if you appeal this order. Posting of this licensing action You are required to place this Order of Conditional License in a place that is clearly noticeable to the people receiving services and all visitors to the facility for two years, even if you appeal. Legal authority for this licensing action · The timeline to request reconsideration of the order is provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.16, subdivision 4. · Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.05, subdivision 4, provides that an applicant for licensure who has received a conditional license order that has not been reversed on appeal may not provide unlicensed child care to non-relatives. · Operating a prohibited unlicensed family child care is a misdemeanor under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.05, subdivision 5. · The requirement to post this order in a clearly visible location is required under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.16, subdivision 5. · If a license holder files a timely reconsideration request, the terms of the conditional license are stayed pending a decision by DCYF under Minnesota Statutes, section 142B.16, subdivision 4. Questions If you have any further questions regarding this matter, you may contact me at 651-431-6565. Sincerely,
Beth Donahue, Supervisor Licensing Division Office of Inspector General cc: Shannon Bjork, Anoka County Human Services
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