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 · January 28, 2026
2.312.C · Correction due January 28, 2026
Reviewed provider's file and observed file to be lacking documentation of a current Department approved training for standard precuations.
Required correction: Immediately (1/28/2026) ensure that the provider obtains and maintains documentation of a current Standard Precautions training certificates. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 01/28/2026
2.312.H
Reviewed Providers file and observed it to be lacking documentation of a current completed department approved training for child abuse prevention.
2.312.I · Correction due January 28, 2026
Reviewed provider's file and observed it to be lacking documentation of a current completed Department-approved safe sleep training.
Required correction: Immediately (1/28/2026) ensure all staff or regular volunteers complete and maintain a current Department approved training for safe sleep training. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 01/28/2026
2.312.K · Correction due February 28, 2026
Reviewed Provider's file and observed file to be lacking documentation fo the completed Department-approved training regarding playground safety for homes.
Required correction: Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response ensuring the provider has completed the Department-approved training regarding playground safety for homes. Correct by 02/28/2026
Reviewed provider's file and observed Karen to be lacking documentation of a current Department-approved training regarding "Injury Prevention for Homes."
2.312.Q · Correction due January 28, 2026
Reviewed provider's file and observed it to be lacking documentation of a current Department-approved training “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 01/28/2026
2.320.A.7 · Correction due January 28, 2026
Reviewed 4 children files and observed 2 file to be lacking current emergency medical authorization signed by the parent/guardian.
Required correction: Immediately (1/28/2026) ensure all children files have current emergency medical authorization signed by the parent/guardian and updated annually. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 01/28/2026
2.321.A.2.c · Correction due January 28, 2026
Reviewed 4 child files and observed 2 file lacking an immunization record.
Required correction: Immediately (1/28/2026) ensure that prior to the first day of enrollment, all children's files contain documentation of school-required immunization status or medical or non-medical exemption per the above guidelines. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 01/28/2026
2.321.A.3 · Correction due February 28, 2026
Reviewed 4 children files and observed 2 file to be lacking a current health statement signed and dated by a health care provider.
Required correction: Provide a written statement of compliance ensuring all children files have a current health statement signed and dated by a health care provider per the above guidelines. Correct by 02/28/2026
Supervisory visit · March 5, 2025
2.312.H · Correction due March 5, 2025
Reviewed provider's files and observed Karen lacking documentation of a current completed department approved training for child abuse prevention.
Required correction: Immediately (3/05/2025) ensure that all staff or regular volunteers complete and maintain a current department approved training for child abuse prevention. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 03/05/2025
2.312.I
Reviewed provider's file and observed Karen to be lacking documentation of a current completed Department-approved safe sleep training.
2.312.J · Correction due April 5, 2025
Reviewed provider's file and observed Karen to be lacking a current completed CDPHE immunization course.
Required correction: Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response ensuring the primary provider and all individuals responsible for the children's immunization records obtains and maintains documentation of a current completed CDPHE immunization training. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 04/05/2025
2.320.A.7 · Correction due March 5, 2025
Reviewed 5 children files and observed (3) files lacking current emergency authorization.
Required correction: Immediately (3/05/2025) ensure all children files have current emergency medical authorization signed by the parent/guardian and updated annually. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response." Correct by 03/05/2025
Reviewed program drill log and observed it to be lacking documentation of the January and February fire drill.
Supervisory visit · March 20, 2024
2.121.D.4.a · Correction due March 20, 2024
Reviewed Karen R. file and observed it to be lacking verification of the completed criminal background check clearance letters.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification that staff listed above have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of FBI and CBI for above listed staff with written response to Specialist. Correct by 03/20/2024
2.312.C
Reviewed Karen R file and observed it to be lacking documentation of a current standard precautions training.
2.312.J · Correction due March 20, 2024
Reviewed staff files and observed Karen R to be lacking documentation of a current CDPHE immunization course.
Required correction: Immediately (3/20/2024) ensure that staff listed above obtains and maintains documentation of a current completed CDPHE immunization training. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 03/20/2024
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 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 Karen Ryan’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.
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