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 · April 14, 2026
2.312.Q · Correction due May 14, 2026
Reviewed Provider and Applicant 2's file and observed both files to be lacking documentation of a Department-approved training "Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant."
Required correction: Obtain a Department-approved training "Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant." Correct and respond with documentation of training to Specialist by 5/14/2026. Correct by 05/14/2026
2.320.A.7
Reviewed 10 child files. Observed CH3's file to be lacking current documentation of an authorization for emergency medical care signed by the parent(s) or guardian(s).
Supervisory visit · May 15, 2025
2.320.A.7 · Correction due May 15, 2025
Reviewed 10 child files. Observed CH2, CH7 and CH8's file to be lacking current documentation of a parent/guardian signature authorizing emergency medical care.
Required correction: Obtain a signature from parent/guardian for all children authorizing emergency medical care. Correct immediately and respond with statement of compliance by 5/22/2025. Correct by 05/15/2025
2.337.B.1.a
Observed in the backyard on the playground area, a climbing structure with 2 slides to be approximately 24 inches in height, lacking resilient surfacing of at least six (6) inches in the use zone.
Required correction: Ensure all areas with climbing equipment higher than 18 inches must have resilient surfacing of at least 6
2.335.N · Correction due May 15, 2025
Reviewed the vaccination records for 2 dogs. Observed both dogs lacking current vaccination records.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of vaccination records for all animals. Correct and respond with statement of compliance by 5/22/2025. Correct by 05/15/2025
Supervisory visit · June 27, 2024
2.121.D.5 · Correction due June 27, 2024
R.P., Kristy and Applicant 2, Anthony's files and observed them to be missing current documentation of FBI clearance letters.
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. Correct immediately and respond with verification of compliance with FBI clearance letters by 7/4/24 Correct by 06/27/2024
Individual employees are shown by initials. The state’s report, linked above, names them in full.
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 Kristy Ornelas’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
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Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
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