Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 2 of the 4 visits below. Across Denver home daycares it cites something at about 57% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Denver with Denver and never with another state.
Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.
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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 · August 6, 2026
2.312.C · Correction due August 6, 2026
Reviewed 2 staff files and observed provider and assistant file to be lacking documentation of a current Department approved training for standard precuations.
Required correction: Immediately (8/6/2026) ensure that the provider and assistant obtains documentation of a current Standard Precautions training certificate. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response ensuring that the provider obtains and maintains documentation of a current Standard Precautions training certificate. Correct by 08/06/2026
Reviewed 2 staff files and observed provider and assistant to be lacking documentation of a current completed department approved training for child abuse prevention.
2.312.J · Correction due August 6, 2026
Reviewed 2 staff files and observed provider to be lacking a current completed CDPHE immunization course.
Required correction: Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response ensuring the primary provider and all individuals responsible for the children's immunization records obtains and maintains documentation of a current completed CDPHE immunization training. Correct by 08/06/2026
2.312.I · Correction due August 6, 2026
Reviewed 2 staff files and observed provider and assistant be lacking a current completed department-approved safe sleep training.
Required correction: Immediately (8/6/26) ensure that all staff complete and maintain a current department approved training for infant safe sleep. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 08/06/2026
Supervisory visit · August 18, 2025
2.336.C.15 · Correction due August 18, 2025
Observed fire extinguisher not highly visible.
Required correction: Make fire extinguisher highly visible. Corrected at time of visit, provider placed fire extinguisher in kitchen. No response is necessary. Correct by 08/18/2025
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.
The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for Charlotte Phelps’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
Ask which of these findings were serious, and what changed.Colorado Department of Early Childhood publishes a correction deadline, never whether the work was done or how serious it was.
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Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
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