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 · September 9, 2025
2.312.Q · Correction due October 9, 2025
Reviewed (3) staff files and observed (1) file lacking documentation of a completed certificate for "Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant".
Required correction: Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response ensuring the provider and all staff have completed the Department-approved training “Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant.” Correct by 10/09/2025
2.312.E
Reviewed (3) staff files and observed (1) file lacking documentation of a current completed Department approved training for medication administration
Supervisory visit · May 16, 2024
2.213.N · Correction due June 16, 2024
Reviewed 3 staff files and observed Director Elka's file to be missing current documentation of Department approved CDPHE immunization course for all staff who are responsible for the collection, review, and maintenance of children's immunization records.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of Department approved CDPHE immunization course for all staff who are responsible for the collection, review, and maintenance of children's immunization records. Correct and respond with verification of compliance by 6/16/24 Correct by 06/16/2024
2.219.B.2
Reviewed 2 child files and observed CH1 to be missing current health statement signed and dated by health care provider.
2.138.A · Correction due May 16, 2024
Program lacking documentation of the required fire, tornado and lockdown drills that have been completed within the last 12 months that includes that date, time and duration of the drills along with the number of children and staff present.
Required correction: Ensure documentation of the required fire, tornado and lockdown drills that have been completed within the last 12 months that includes that date, time and duration of the drills along with the number of children and staff present. Correct immediately and respond with a plan for ongoing compliance by 6/16/24. Correct by 05/16/2024
2.127.A
During walk through observed the posted child care license to be expired.
Required correction: Obtain and post current child care license. Correct immediately and respond with verification by 6/16/24
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 Elka Popack’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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