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 · May 26, 2026
2.336.C.15 · Correction due May 26, 2026
The family child care home to be lacking a fire extinguisher in working condition with a minimum weight of 5 pounds.
Required correction: The family child care home must contain at least one (1) fire extinguisher in working condition with the minimum weight of five 5 pounds. Correct by 5/26/26. Document compliance by 6/26/26. Correct by 05/26/2026
2.321.A.3
Licensing Specialist reviewed 7 child files and observed 2 children to have expired statements of health.
2.321.A.2.c · Correction due May 26, 2026
Licensing Specialist reviewed 7 child files and observed 1 child to be missing documentation of immunization status.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of immunization status. Correct by 5/26/26. Document compliance to Specialist by 6/26/26. Correct by 05/26/2026
Supervisory visit · July 8, 2025
2.312.C · Correction due July 8, 2025
Reviewed the Provider's File and observed the Department-approved training in standard precautions was expired, The certificate on file was dated: 8/25/2023
Required correction: Obtain a Department-approved training in standard precautions. Send verification with written response to Specialist. Correct by 07/08/2025
Supervisory visit · August 5, 2024
2.321.A.3 · Correction due September 5, 2024
Reviewed eight (8) children files and observed two (2) files to have an expired health statement signed and dated by a health care provider.
Required correction: Obtain a health statement signed and dated by a health care provider for two (2) children. Send verification with written response to Specialist. Correct by 09/05/2024
2.336.C.1
In three (3) unlocked kitchen drawers, screws, small batteries, and push pins posing a safety hazard.
2.337.B.1.a · Correction due August 5, 2024
The sliding equipment higher than eighteen (18) inches had a resilient surface of two (2) inches.
Required correction: All climbing equipment, sliding equipment eighteen (18) inches or higher must have a resilient surface of at least six (6) inches in the use zone surrounding the equipment. Correct immediately. Send verification with written response to Specialist. Correct by 08/05/2024
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 Melissa Ferris’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.
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