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 · March 11, 2026
2.321.A.3 · Correction due April 11, 2026
Reviewed seven child files and found one child to have an expired physicians health statement.
Required correction: All children must have a current physicians health statement that is maintained in the file. Correct and respond with written statement of compliance. Correct by 04/11/2026
Supervisory visit · May 20, 2024
2.121.C.2 · Correction due May 20, 2024
Identified that two residents of the home, Sarah P and Stephanie P, did not have CBI or FBI 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 Licensing Specialist in writing once the resident has completed the fingerprinting process. Correct by 05/20/2024
2.312.C
Reviewed the Providers file and found the Standard Precautions training to be expired.
2.312.H · Correction due May 20, 2024
Reviewed the Providers file and found their Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse training to be expired.
Required correction: Providers must complete the Recognizing and Reporting of Child Abuse training annually. Correct and provide documentation of completion with written response. Correct by 05/20/2024
2.312.J · Correction due June 20, 2024
Reviewed the Providers file and found their Immunization training to be expired.
Required correction: Providers must complete the Immunization training annually. Correct and provide documentation of completion with written response. Correct by 06/20/2024
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 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 Joanne Payne’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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