In His Hands Day Care
Licensed Center in Canyon, Texas. License #543684, issued December 20, 1999.
- Address
- 1818 4th Ave, Canyon, TX 79015
- Phone
- (806) 655-5437
- Licensed capacity
- 190 children
- Licensed for
- Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School
- Hours
- 07:15 AM-06:00 PM
- Days
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
- Child care subsidies
- Not accepted
- Website
- firstmethodist.church/ministries
Programs listed with the state: Part Time Care, Field Trips.
The state records conditions on this permit . What these mean.
Openings
This program has not told us about its openings. We only publish what a program confirms itself, so there is nothing here yet. Ring them to ask.
Texas Rising Star
No Texas Rising Star rating
Texas Rising Star is voluntary, and a program joins it by applying. It is tied to accepting child care scholarships, so most programs that are not in it never applied rather than failed. Roughly three in five licensed programs in Texas have no rating.
This says nothing about the quality of this program. What the state has assessed about it is the inspection record below.
Where this is
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The pin is where the US Census geocoder placed this address. About one in eight is interpolated along a street rather than resolved to a building, so treat it as the right block rather than the right doorway. How we source this.
What inspectors checked
Texas HHSC records how many individual standards it evaluated in each area of the rules, and how many it found violated. Across 22 areas it checked 3,156 standards at In His Hands Day Care between November 12, 2021 and February 19, 2026 and recorded 12 violations. Those correspond to the citations listed above that were recorded from 2021 onward; anything older than that is in the citation list but not in these counts.
The 22 areas, one by one
| Area of the rules | Visits | Standards checked | Violated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope, administration, and communication | 3 | 357 | 0 |
| Record keeping | 3 | 326 | 1 |
| Personnel | 3 | 435 | 0 |
| Ratios and group sizes | 3 | 162 | 1 |
| Activities | 3 | 104 | 0 |
| Infants | 3 | 267 | 1 |
| Toddlers | 3 | 66 | 0 |
| Pre-kindergarten | 3 | 55 | 0 |
| School-age | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Discipline | 3 | 60 | 0 |
| Naptime | 3 | 36 | 0 |
| Field trips | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Get well care | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Nighttime care | 2 | 26 | 0 |
| Nutrition and food care | 2 | 90 | 0 |
| Health practices | 2 | 226 | 0 |
| Safety practices | 2 | 154 | 0 |
| Physical facilities | 2 | 150 | 1 |
| Outdoor safety | 2 | 192 | 1 |
| Pools | 2 | 54 | 0 |
| Fire safety | 2 | 135 | 0 |
| Transportation | 2 | 98 | 0 |
The table adds up to 3,129 of those standards. The remaining 27, including 7 of the violations, were recorded under the state's own catch-all heading, “Individual Standards Evaluated”, which names no area. They are reported here rather than folded into an area above, because the state did not say which area they belong to and we are not going to decide for it.
A high number of standards checked is not a compliment and a low one is not a criticism: how many apply depends on a program's size, its ages served and what the inspector was there to look at. We publish the two counts the state published and do not turn them into a score. This data begins in 2021, which is later than the inspection history above it.
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Tell me about new inspections
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We ask for nothing but the address, and we send a confirmation first. Your list is never shown to this program, never sold, and every message has a link to stop. An inspection is routine: programs are visited on a schedule and after a complaint, and a visit is not a finding.
State inspection record
HHSC records 13 visits to this operation since October 2017, most recently on February 19, 2026, and 12 citations.
2 of those visits began with In His Hands Day Care reporting something to the state itself rather than HHSC finding it. We publish that because it is part of the record and the state records it separately, not because it is good or bad: a program with none may have had nothing to report. 3,674 of the 12,933 programs listed here have at least one.
- 2High
- 5Medium High
- 5Medium
Every citation below records a correction.
Citations
Showing all 12. Indented text is the inspector's own, reproduced verbatim.
- Medium February 19, 2026 Correction verified March 12, 2026
746.901(11): Required Personnel Records- signed dated statement that employee attended abuse/neglect training
Two employee files still lacked orientation.
- Medium High February 3, 2026 Correction verified February 19, 2026
746.4805(a): Measurement of Use Zone for Slides - in Front of Access and on Sides
The side access did not have adequate 6 feet use zone and children were observed using the equipment.
- Medium High February 3, 2026 Correction verified February 19, 2026
746.3819: Food Allergy Emergency Plan Signed by Parents and Health Care Professional
A food allergy plan for a child in care with a diagnosed food allergy lacks the physician signature and parent signature.
- Medium February 3, 2026 Correction verified February 19, 2026
746.901(11): Required Personnel Records- signed dated statement that employee attended abuse/neglect training
Three employee files lacked orientation.
- High February 27, 2025 Correction verified April 28, 2025
746.2805(3): Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
Based on evidence obtained during the DFPS investigation, a caregiver disciplined a child inappropriately. The child was asked to put down a handful of rocks and then the caregiver grabbed the child by the arm in an attempt to get the child to release the rocks.
- High February 27, 2025 Correction verified April 28, 2025
746.2805(1): Prohibited Punishments - Corporal Punishment
Based on evidence obtained during the DFPS investigation, a caregiver was thumping children on their hands as a means to stop unwanted behavior for discipline.
- Medium March 20, 2024 Correction verified March 25, 2024
746.2421(b): Written Feeding Instructions - Review and Update Every 30 Days
Five infants in the infant classroom were past due on infant feeding instructions requiring to be updated in the last 30 days that are consuming formula or breastmilk.
- Medium High March 20, 2024 Correction verified April 2, 2024
746.1601: Child/ Caregiver Ratio - 13 or More Children
One classroom with a specified age group of 12-17 month old infants required two staff members in the classroom with the 8 children in care but only had one staff member observed in the classroom upon entry of the room at inspections. The caregiver that left the classroom to utilize the restroom, promptly returned and the classroom was back in ratio during nap time.
- Medium March 20, 2024 Correction verified April 2, 2024
746.3809: Medication No Longer Used
Two medications required for known food allergies is expired and is in need of replacing.
- Medium High March 20, 2024 Correction verified April 2, 2024
746.3701: Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
One slide on the younger children playground has screws that pose a hazard to children in care. Two screws have broken from the plastic and poses a pinch hazard, and one screw protrudes up and is a pinch hazard. Additionally, the older children playground has a metal post protruding from the ground and is a trip hazard. This was corrected at inspection with the slide removed and the metal post was pulled up and removed.
- Medium April 19, 2023 Correction verified May 3, 2023
746.4501(b): Chairs - Safety Straps Used if Required by Manufacturer
One classroom with infants and toddlers was observed during snack time and the children were no secured with the buckle in the multiple occupancy table that has buckles.
- Medium High April 19, 2023 Correction verified May 3, 2023
746.4907(d): Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Proper Depth Maintained
Climbing equipment on the playground that requires six inches of loose fill within the use zone had various areas that had hard and compacted dirt and there was not sufficient 6 inches of loose fill.
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About this record
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