Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 4 of the 7 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 · August 7, 2026
2.321.A.3 · Correction due September 7, 2026
Reviewed 6 child files, 1 file lacking documentation of a current health statement.
Required correction: Review all child files and ensure that all have current health statements. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 09/07/2026
2.320.A.7
REviewed 6 child files, 4 files lacking documentation of current emergency medical authorization.
Limited Supervisory visit · July 24, 2025
2.325.A · Correction due July 24, 2025
Identified through provider statement that they do not serve milk at lunch.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that the CACFP is followed. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 07/24/2025
Complaint · May 5, 2025
Founded
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.
Complaint · May 5, 2025
2.336.C.1 · Correction due May 5, 2025
Cleaning product under sink in bathroom that children use and shovel with sharp edge in hallway accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that all hazardous items are inaccessible to children at at all times. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 05/05/2025
2.329.H.2.a · Correction due May 5, 2025
Crib that infant sleeps in has a sheet that is not fitted well to the mattress. Child was not sleeping.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that sheet has a properly fitted sheet. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 05/05/2025
2.337.A.13 · Correction due May 5, 2025
Trampoline in backyard is not stored in a way that makes it inaccessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that trampoline is stored in a way that is inaccessible to children at all times. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 05/05/2025
2.329.H.11.b · Correction due May 5, 2025
The receiver of the sound monitoring equipment was not on and being actively monitored by the provider while an 11 month old child was in nap area.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that the sound monitoring equipment is on and being actively monitored when infants are sleeping in a separate room out of the direct supervision of the provider. Correct by 05/05/2025
2.317.D.1
Only 4 of 5 children in attendance are signed in, not all parents are signing in/out with full signature.
2.336.B.1 · Correction due May 5, 2025
Office area with small items that could be a possible choke hazard is accessible to children when they are going to bathroom.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that all small items that could be a choke hazard are inaccessible to children at all times. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 05/05/2025
2.321.A.3 · Correction due June 5, 2025
Reviewed 1 child file, file lacking documentation of current health statement.
Required correction: Review all children files and ensure that all have documentation of current health statements. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 06/05/2025
2.317.E.1
Provider stated that daughter in law is currently staying in the home for 2 weeks and hasn't been signing in/out on a visitor log.
2.335.E.5 · Correction due May 9, 2025
When asked where the guns were stored and locked were the provider asked their children. One child stated they were taken to another home, the other child stated that they believed they were under their bed in the basement that is off limits to children. Child looked for the guns under the bed and around the space in the basement but couldn't find the guns. Previously cited violation regarding weapons not being locked on 10/1/24.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that the location of the weapons are located. If the weapons will no longer in the family child care home please submit a change request to remove the exhibit from the license. If the weapons are in the family child care home ensure that the weapons and ammunition are locked and stored separately. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 05/09/2025
2.120.C.1.c · Correction due May 9, 2025
Identified that their daughter in law is over 18 and living in the home. When asked if this resident had requested Trails background check the provider stated that daughter in law only stays at the family child care home at times for up to 2 weeks.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that daughter in law requests Trails background check. Submit statement of compliance and date request was made. Correct by 05/09/2025 Docusign Envelope ID: F8F1435C-CE7D-4B36-80D0-653B34A5F6B4
2.121.C.1 · Correction due May 9, 2025
Identified that their daughter in law is over 18 and living in the home. When asked if this resident had completed the fingerprint process the provider stated that daughter in law only stays at the family child care home at times for up to 2 weeks.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that daughter in law completes the fingerprint process. Submit statement of compliance and date request was made. Correct by 05/09/2025
Supervisory visit · October 1, 2024
2.321.A.2.c · Correction due October 1, 2024
Reviewed 7 children files, 1 file lacking documentation of immunization status.
Required correction: Immediately review all children files and ensure that all have documentation of immunization status. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/01/2024
Provider lacking documentation of current standard precautions training. Docusign Envelope ID: AA4E4C8A-E355-4507-8198-5F7855CFA4A7
2.321.A.3 · Correction due November 1, 2024
Reviewed 7 children files, 2 files lacking documentation of current health statements.
Required correction: Review all children files and ensure that all have current health statements. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/01/2024
2.335.E · Correction due October 1, 2024
Two guns in the basement not locked.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that all guns are locked at all time during child care hours. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/01/2024
Products labeled "keep out of reach of children" accessible to children in bathroom including sunscreen and Docusign Envelope ID: AA4E4C8A-E355-4507-8198-5F7855CFA4A7
2.336.C.15 · Correction due October 1, 2024
Home lacking fire extinguisher in correct size and weight.
Required correction: Immediately obtain appropriate fire extinguisher. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/01/2024
2.337.A.13 · Correction due October 1, 2024
Trampoline accessible to children in backyard.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that trampoline is inaccessible to children during child care hours. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/01/2024
2.138.A
Tornado drills not identified and logged for 2024.
2.312.H · Correction due October 1, 2024
Provider lacking documentation of current child abuse prevention training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of current child abuse prevention training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/01/2024
2.312.K · Correction due November 1, 2024
Provider lacking documentation of playground safety for homes training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of playground safety for homes training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/01/2024
2.312.M
Provider lacking documentation of introduction to early intervention and preschool special education programs.
2.312.N · Correction due November 1, 2024
Provider lacking documentation of recognizing the impact of bias on early childhood professionals training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of recognizing the impact of bias on early childhood professionals training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/01/2024
2.312.P · Correction due November 1, 2024
Provider lacking documentation of injury prevention for homes.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of injury prevention for homes. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/01/2024
2.312.Q · Correction due November 1, 2024
Provider lacking documentation of working with an early childhood mental health consultant training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of working with an early childhood mental health consultant training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/01/2024
Complaint · May 31, 2024
Founded
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.
Complaint · May 31, 2024
2.314.B.2 · Correction due May 31, 2024
Provider stated that on 5/14/24 they had an emergency that they had to leave the home for approximately 10 minutes and their adult son over 18 years of age acted as the emergency substitute. The emergency substitute did not contact the parent(s) or guardian(s) to notify them that the provider had been called away for an emergency situation.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that when an emergency substitute is used that they immediately contact the parent(s) or guardian(s) to notify them that the provider had been called away for an emergency situation. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 05/31/2024
Original Change of Location/Type visit · November 2, 2023
Correction due December 2, 2023
Provider lacking documentation of zoning approval for a large family child care home.
Required correction: Obtain zoning approval for a large family child care home. Submit statement of compliance and copy of zoning approval letter. Correct by 12/02/2023
7.707.71.A.2
Reviewed 5 children files, 2 files lacking documentation of current health statements from a health care provider.
7.707.71.B.1 · Correction due November 2, 2023
Reviewed 5 children files, 1 file lacking documentation of current emergency medical authorization.
Required correction: Review all children files and ensure that all have documentation of current emergency medical authorization. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/02/2023
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.
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 Sarah Grigg’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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