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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 · October 15, 2025
2.336.C.1 · Correction due October 15, 2025
There was a tube of sunscreen labeled "keep out of reach of children" sitting in a bag near the top of the stairs leading to the basement that was accessible to children. The provider's purse was sitting on a chair in the kitchen accessible to children posing a possible safety hazard.
Required correction: All hazardous items including tubes of sunscreen and the provider's purse must be inaccessible to children. ***Corrected at the time of the visit the provider places the sunscreen and the provider's purse up high and inaccessible to children on 10/15/2025. No response required.*** Correct by 10/15/2025
Supervisory visit · December 12, 2023
7.707.922.A · Correction due December 12, 2023
There two children under 3 were playing with barbies and the shoes and crown were posing a choking hazard.
Required correction: Ensure that all items including small toy parts like barbie shoes and crown must not be accessible to childen under 3. ***Corrected at the time of the visit the provider removed the barbie shoes and crown making them inaccessible to children. No need for written statement of of compliance.*** Correct by 12/12/2023
7.707.91.N · Correction due December 12, 2023
In the hallway leading to the licensed basement there was a small treadmill.
Required correction: Ensure all exercise equipment must be made inaccessible to children. ***Corrected at the time of the visit the provider placed the treadmill into the locked garage making it inaccessible to children. No need for written statement of compliance.*** Correct by 12/12/2023
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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