LARA Summarily Suspends the Family Child Care Home Certificate

of Anita Tillman
Contact: LARA Communications 517-373-9280
Agency: Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

For Immediate Release - The Michigan Department of Licensing and

Regulatory Affairs (LARA), Bureau of Community and Health Systems (BCHS),
issued an order of summary suspension and notice of intent to revoke the child
care certificate of registration of Kalamazoo County family child care home
provider, Anita Tillman, Registration #DF390322223, at 3081 Crystal Lane,
Kalamazoo, MI 49009. This action resulted from a recent investigation of a
complaint of the family child care home.
The September 24, 2015, complaint investigation found violations of the Child
Care Organizations Act and administrative rules regarding family and group child
care homes. LARA took emergency action to protect the health, welfare, and
safety of children.
Effective 6:00 p.m., September 24, 2015, the summary suspension order
prohibits Anita Tillman from operating a family child care home at 3081 Crystal
Lane, Kalamazoo, MI 49009, or at any other address or location. Accordingly,
she may not accept children for care after that date and time. The order also
requires Anita Tillman to inform all of the parents of children in her care that her
certificate of registration has been suspended and that she can no longer provide
child care.
Anita Tillman has held a certificate of registration to operate a family child care
home since July 25, 2012. The certificate of registration was for six (6) children.

Michigan law defines a family child care home as a private home in which one
but fewer than seven minor children are given care and supervision for periods of
less than 24 hours a day unattended by a parent or legal guardian, except
children related to an adult member of the family by blood, marriage, or
adoption. Family child care home includes a home in which care is given to an
unrelated minor child for more than four weeks during a calendar year. A family
child care home does not include an individual providing babysitting services for
another individual. As used in this paragraph, providing babysitting services
means caring for a child on behalf of the childs parent or guardian when the
annual compensation for providing those services does not equal or exceed
$600.00 or an amount that would according to the internal revenue code of 1986
obligate the childs parent or guardian to provide a form 1099-MISC to the
individual for compensation paid during the calendar year for those services.
Anita Tillman has the right to appeal this suspension. The case will be forwarded
to the Michigan Administrative Hearing System (MAHS) for a hearing date.
For more information on disciplinary actions taken by the health professional
licensing boards within LARA, please go
to http://www.michigan.gov/healthlicense.
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