Menlo Park · Licensed family home
Alejandra Espinosa Family Child Care
A family home in Menlo Park, licensed for up to 14 children. Run by the person who holds the license. Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
Full-size home. Full-size means licensed for 14 children, the most any Bay Area family home holds; 442 of Bay Area’s 466 licensed family homes are. Small is 10 to 13.
Who runs it: from ccld.dss.ca.gov.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 1 of 2 cited something
Across Bay Area family homes, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,008 visits). Two visits are too few to read as a pattern.
From California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing
- Last visit
- August 14, 2024
- On file
- 2 visits since September 2022 — 1 cited nothing
- Most serious
- No finding carrying a severity level in the last 24 months.
California CDSS publishes the full investigation narrative for a complaint, including its disposition, and classifies a citation Type A — an immediate risk to a child — or Type B.
Aug 2024 Licensing visit 3 findings
Licensing visit · August 14, 2024
HSC 1597.622(c) · Type B
(c) The family day care home shall maintain documentation of the required immunizations or exemptions from immunization, as set forth in this section, in the person's personnel record that is maintained by the family day care home. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 2/2 staff were missing documentation of immunizations which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
CCR 102425(j)(2)(D) · Type B
Documentation shall be maintained in the infant’s file and be available to the Department for review. Documentation shall include the following: This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 3/3 infants were missing sleeping logs which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
CCR 102418(a) · Type B
(a) Prior to admission to a family day care home, children shall be immunized against diseases as required by the California Code of Regulations, Title 17, beginning with Section 6000. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on iinterview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in 3/10 children were missing documentation of immunizations which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Details
- Phone
- (650) 283-5526
- Area
- Menlo Park, 94025
- License
- 414004831, active
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State record
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Details
- Phone, License — Checked July 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov
- Who runs it — Checked September 2026 · ccld.dss.ca.gov