San Francisco · Licensed center
Mission Head Start-Women's Building Center
At a glance
- Small center, licensed for 23 children.
- Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit.
What the state has found
The state cited no rules at any of its 5 licensing inspections since January 2022.
See each inspection
Licensing inspections
- Apr 18, 2025Nothing cited
- Apr 14, 2025Nothing cited
- Feb 28, 2024Nothing cited
- Nov 22, 2022Nothing cited
- Jan 13, 2022Nothing cited
The state cited no rules at any of this center's 5 inspections. Most Bay Area centers inspected 5 times had at least one: 71% of 457.
How all 457 Bay Area centers inspected 5 times compare
Of the 457 Bay Area centers the state inspected 5 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:
- None29%This center
- 1 of 535%
- 2 of 523%
- 3 of 59%
- 4 of 54%
- All 5under 1%
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing
- Last visit
- April 18, 2025
- On file
- 5 visits since January 2022 — all of them cited nothing · 1 complaint investigation
- Most serious
- Type A —
§1596.885(c): Conduct which is inimical to the health, morals, welfare, or safety of either an individual in or receiving services from the facility or the people of this state. This requirement was not met as evidence by: Based on information obtained by the Department’s Investigations Branch (IB), Staff, R.J.W. posed a risk to day care children. This poses an Immediate Health and Safety risk to children in care.
· November 1, 2021
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.
Apr 2021 Complaint Substantiated
Complaint · April 20, 2021
HSC 1596.885(c) · Type A
§1596.885(c): Conduct which is inimical to the health, morals, welfare, or safety of either an individual in or receiving services from the facility or the people of this state. This requirement was not met as evidence by: Based on information obtained by the Department’s Investigations Branch (IB), Staff, R.J.W. posed a risk to day care children. This poses an Immediate Health and Safety risk to children in care.
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Details
- Phone
- (415) 701-1995
- Address
- 3543 18th Street, San Francisco, 94110
- License
- 384000867
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Sources and dates
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All checked November 2026.
State record
From California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s published reports, last checked November 5, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License, Who runs it ccld.dss.ca.gov
Small means the smallest quarter of Bay Area’s 439 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 30 children. Medium is 31 to 75; large is 76 to 312.