Thornton · Licensed family home
Rachel Nielsen
At a glance
- Full-size family home, licensed for up to 12 children.
What the state has found
The state lists 3 visits below. Shortlist has not read the reports behind them, so there is no share of visits that cited something to set beside other providers yet.
State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood
- Last visit
- September 4, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since October 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was November 22, 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, where it publishes one, 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.
Oct 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · October 22, 2025
2.321.A.3 · Correction due November 22, 2025
Reviewed 6 children files and found CH 3 to be missing a health statement.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain a current health statement. Correct within 30 days. Correct by 11/22/2025
2.336.C.15.a · Correction due October 22, 2025
The fire extinguisher to have a date of 2016.
Required correction: Fire extinguishers must be replaced every 6 years. Correct immediately. Correct by 10/22/2025
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 November 8, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in November 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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Details
- Area
- Thornton, 80233
- License
- 1726188
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
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Sources and dates
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.
Details
- License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
Full-size means licensed for 12 children, the most any Denver-area family home holds; 216 of Denver-area’s 570 licensed family homes are. Small is 4 to 6; mid-size is 7 to 11.