Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.
Supervisory visit · July 18, 2025
2.209.A.7 · Correction due July 18, 2025
Reviewed twelve (12) children files and observed ten (10) files To have expired written authorization for emergency medical care signed and dated by the children's parents.
Required correction: Obtain ten (10) written authorizations for emergency medical care signed and dated by the children's parents. Correct immediately. send verification with written response to Specialist. Correct by 07/18/2025
2.127.C
Observed the facility did not have the correct information regarding the procedures for filling a complaint posted, there was no address and the telephone number was not correct. Previosly cited on 7/23/2024.
2.230.B · Correction due July 18, 2025
Observed in Step 3 and step 6 Classrooms soiled rugs with dark spots that appeared to be dirt marks and the children were playing on them. Additionally on step 3 classroom observed a large tumble mat that had three (3) small pieces of tape on it , the tape had been pulled out halfway posing a potential choking hazard.
Required correction: Indoor and outdoor equipment materials and furnishing must be study safe and free of hazards. Correct immediately. Send verification with written response to specialist. The facility's Director corrected the violation at the time of the inspection by removing the rugs from Step 3 and step 6 classrooms and also by removing the large tumble mat from Step 3 classroom. No response is necessary. Correct by 07/18/2025
2.212.G · Correction due August 18, 2025
Review 22 staff files and observed Brittany G. File to have an expired health statement. Expired: 08/29/2024
Required correction: Obtain a medical statement signed and dated by a physician or other health care provider for a staff member Brittany G send verification with written response to specialist Correct by 08/18/2025
Complaint · July 6, 2023
Unfounded · 7.702.71.L · Equipment/Materials · Correction due July 7, 2023
Toys, toy parts, furnishings, equipment, and any materials accessible to children under than three (3) years of age must not be a choke hazard or able to be inhaled. Any area of the facility accessible to children less than three (3) years of age must be free of any choke or inhalation hazards.
Required correction: Toys, toys parts, furnishing, equipment and ant materials accessible to children under three (3) years of age must not be a choke hazard. Correct immediately. The classroom Teacher correct the violation at the time of the inspection by moving the small part of a brittle game to a place where the children could not access it. No response is necessary.
Unfounded · 7.701.56.C. · General Rules · Correction due July 7, 2023
At all times during the operating hours of a family child care home, child care center, preschool, school age child care, children?s resident camp, and neighborhood youth organization, the facility must post in a prominent and conspicuous location information regarding the procedures for filing a complaint with the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division Of Early Care And Learning, including the telephone number and mailing address. All 24-hour care agencies and facilities providing out-of-home care and day treatment centers must post in prominent and conspicuous location information regarding the procedures for filing a complaint with the Colorado Department of Human Services, division of child welfare, including the telephone number and mailing address. For foster care homes and child placement agencies, information for filing a complaint must be made available upon request.
Required correction: Ensure to post the complaint report procedures. Correct immediately.
The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.
The file this page is built from arrived on September 1, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in September 2027.
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