Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 3 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 20, 2026
2.121.D.4.a · Correction due August 20, 2026
Reviewed all household members background checks and observed one member of the household to be missing a current FBI background check.
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 08/20/2026
2.336.C.2
In the main play area, observed an outlet to be uncovered.
Required correction: In rooms accessible to children, all electrical outlets must have protective covers or safety outlets must be
Supervisory visit · November 13, 2024
2.321.A.4 · Correction due December 13, 2024
Reviewed 3 children's files and found one to have an expired health statement.
Required correction: Obtain a current health statement. Correct by 12/13/2024. Correct by 12/13/2024
2.321.A.2.c
Reviewed 3 children's files, and observed one immunization record to not be on an approved form.
Supervisory visit · December 5, 2023
Correction due December 5, 2023
Reviewed the drill log and observed no documentation of a fire drill for October and November 2023. Observed only 1 emergency drill, lockdown and active shooter drill for the year. Previously cited 12/16/2023.
Required correction: Hold and maintain documentation of all required drills. Correct immediately and send a statement of compliance to specialist with written response. Correct by 12/05/2023
7.707.32.B.1
Reviewed the provider's file and observed it to be missing documentation of 2 hours of annual training to total 15 hours for the year.
7.707.71.A.6 · Correction due January 4, 2024
Reviewed 4 child files and observed 1 child between the ages of 2-7 to be missing documentation of a current health statement. The previous statement is expired for over 30 days.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of a current health statement for child and place in child file. Send a statement of compliance to specialist with written response. Correct by 01/04/2024
7.707.71.B.1 · Correction due December 5, 2023
Reviewed 4 child files and observed all 4 to be missing documentation of current emergency authorization.
Required correction: Obtain written authorization to arrange for emergency medical care for children and ensure that the authorization is re-authorized annually for all children. Correct immediately and send a statement of compliance to specialist with written response. Correct by 12/05/2023
Correction due December 5, 2023
No documentation of background check clearance for adult child living in home who is 18 years of age.
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 Licensing Specialist in writing once the resident has completed the fingerprinting process. Correct by 12/05/2023
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.
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 Hielda Sawaqed’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.
All checked July 2026.
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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