Mama Bear Children Center

Center · Aurora · 10700 E Iliff Ave

What kind of place is this?

Size 93 children licensed In the middle half for Denver centers, where the middle half licenses 40–113. Measured across 1,156 Denver centers, 2026-08-17.

Will it fit our family?

Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

State quality rating Colorado Shines Level 2
License status Active

State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood

Last visit
November 12, 2025
On file
3 visits since December 2023 · 1 complaint investigation
Fixed?
Correction was due November 12, 2025. Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish whether it was made.
Most serious
Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

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.

Nov 2025 Complaint Unfounded

Complaint · November 12, 2025

Unfounded

The state lists this complaint on the provider’s record and publishes an investigation report for it. Shortlist has not read that report, so this row includes no citation detail.

State records file

Nov 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · November 12, 2025

2.237.E · Correction due November 12, 2025

At the time of the visit in the polar Bear room, in the restroom. there was a mop bucket with water in it accessible to children.

Required correction: Correct immediately. All mops, and cleaning supplies. must be stored in areas inaccessible to children. Corrected at the time of the director removed the mop bucket. and placed it in an area inaccessible to children. No response needed Correct by 11/12/2025

State records file

Nov 2024 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Dec 2023 Original visit report not read State records file

Where this record comes from

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.

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Before you tour

Mama Bear Children Center hasn’t published

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.

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What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Licensing and contact

State record

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