Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 4 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 4, 2026
2.138.A · Correction due August 4, 2026
Reviewed Provider's files and observed the program lacking documentation of a fire drill, a tornado drill and a lock down drill being conducted during the month of July 2026. The previous lock down drill recorded was 4/7/2026. Provider stated the drills were conducted on 7/6/2026 and not recorded on the drill log.
Required correction: Ensure all required drills are completed within the required time frames and documentation of each drill is maintained for at least (12) months, to include the above listed information. Correct immediately and document correction in written response to Specialist. Correct by 08/04/2026
2.318.C.3
Reviewed Provider's files and observed the program lacking documentation of monthly smoke alarm testing.
2.311.A.14 · Correction due September 3, 2026
Reviewed Provider's file and observed Provider's health evaluation to have expired on 9/22/2025.
Required correction: Ensure subsequent health evaluations for the Provider, Applicant 2, and all children who are less than (10) years of age residing in the home are obtained every (2) years or as required by the health care provider. Document correction in written response to Specialist. Correct by 09/03/2026
2.321.A.3 · Correction due September 3, 2026
Reviewed (7) child files and observed Child (4) and Child (5), who have both been enrolled longer than (30) days, to have heatlh statements that expired on 1/2/2025 and 5/21/2026, respectively.
Required correction: Ensure all child files contain a current health statement signed and dated by a health care provider, per the above guidelines, within (30) days of enrollment. Document correction in written response to Specialist. Correct by 09/03/2026
Supervisory visit · August 19, 2025
2.321.A.3 · Correction due September 18, 2025
Reviewed 5 child files and observed 2 files with an expired statement of health status.
Required correction: Provide a written statement of compliance ensuring all child files contain a current health statement signed and dated by a health care provider per the above guidelines. Correct by 09/18/2025
2.121.D.5
Reviewed Provider's file and observed it lacking an updated FBI clearance letter obtained prior to 5 years from the date reflected on the previous clearance letter.
Supervisory visit · September 12, 2024
2.336.C.1 · Correction due September 12, 2024
2 cans of paint labeled "keep out of reach of children" in the hallway of the downstairs bedroom accessible to children.
Required correction: Provider immediately (9/12/2024) removed the cans of paint making them inaccessible to children. NO RESPONSE NEEDED. Correct by 09/12/2024
Supervisory visit · October 13, 2023
7.707.923.B · Correction due October 13, 2023
An uncovered outlet in the bathroom accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately (10/13/2023) ensure that all electric outlets and power strips have protective covers or safety outlets installed. Provider immediately covered the outlet with a protective cover. NO RESPONSE NEEDED. Correct by 10/13/2023
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 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 Genevieve Free’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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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.
All checked July 2026.
Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
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