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.
This provider does not publish pricing.
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 12, 2026
2.120.C.1.a.1 · Correction due August 12, 2026
reviewed provider file and observed and identified that son has been living in the home and has not completed TRAILS background checks.
Required correction: Provider must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification the provider reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Notify the Licensing Specialist in writing once the resident has completed the fingerprinting process. Correct by 08/12/2026
reviewed provider file and observed and identified that son has been living in the home and has not Document ID: 922c1401e15c24059c8475c6d13292a4f919be042a93335e4f7e5cb6b08a4f04
2.318.C.3 · Correction due August 12, 2026
identified through provider no documentation of smoke alarm testing to be available at time of visit.
Required correction: A monthly smoke alarms record must be kept and maintained at the program correct and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 08/12/2026
2.321.A.2.c
Reviewed 5 children files and observed ch1 to have immunization documentation on non-approved form.
2.311.A.14 · Correction due September 11, 2026
reviewed providers file and observed that son moved in and has not medical health statement available for review observed husband and daughter to be missing documentation of medical health statement.
Required correction: Obtain medical health statement for family memebers and add to facility file. Correct immediately and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 09/11/2026
Supervisory visit · October 16, 2024
2.336.B.1 · Correction due October 16, 2024
arts supplies such as beads, plush balls of a diameter of 1/2 inches diameter posing a chocking hazard, to be accessible to children younger than 3 years in the play area.
Required correction: Toys, toy parts, furnishings, equipment, and materials accessible to children less than three years of age must not be a choke hazard or able to be inhaled. Correct immediately. **CORRECTED AT THE TIME OF INSPECTION, provider removed the art supplies from the play area. Document compliance with the written response. Correct by 10/16/2024
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 13, 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 Cristina Gaeta’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.
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
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