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 · October 15, 2025
2.321.A.3 · Correction due November 15, 2025
Reviewed 6 child files, 6 files lacking documentation of a health statement.
Required correction: Review all child files and ensure that all have documentation of health statements. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/15/2025
2.321.A.2.c
Reviewed 6 child files, 5 files lacking documentation of immunization status.
2.325.C · Correction due October 15, 2025
Identified through provider statement that parents do not have access to menu/meals being served.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that parents have access to menu/meals being served. Correct by 10/15/2025
2.312.C · Correction due October 15, 2025
Provider lacking documentation of current standard precautions training.
Required correction: Immediately obtain documentation of current standard precautions training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/15/2025
2.312.H
Provider lacking documentation of current child abuse prevention training.
2.312.I · Correction due October 15, 2025
Provider lacking documentation of current safe sleep training. Currently no children under 12 months in care.
Required correction: Immediately obtain documentation of current safe sleep training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/15/2025
2.312.J · Correction due November 15, 2025
Provider lacking documentation of current immunization training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of current standard precautions training. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/15/2025
2.335.D · Correction due October 15, 2025
Three unlatched drawers in the kitchen with tools, sharp knives and plastic bags accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that all hazardous items are inaccessible to children at all times. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 10/15/2025
Original visit · November 15, 2024
2.317.B.1 · Correction due November 15, 2024
Provider lacking completed emergency evacuation plan.
Required correction: Create complete evacuation plan. Submit statement of compliance along with that part of the plan. Correct by 11/15/2024
2.320.A.4 · Correction due November 15, 2024
Child admission record lacking address for emergency contact.
Required correction: Update child admission records to include address for emergency contact. Submit statement of compliance and copy of child admission record. Correct by 11/15/2024
Child admission record lacking address for authorized pick up contact.
2.335.Y · Correction due November 15, 2024
The following items accessible to children in unlatched drawers: sharp knives, possible choke hazards, plastic bags, tools.
Required correction: Immediately ensure that all areas accessible to children are free of hazards. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/15/2024
2.336.C.15 · Correction due November 15, 2024
Home lacking required fire extinguisher.
Required correction: Obtain required fire extinguisher. Submit statement of compliance. Correct by 11/15/2024
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 Sarah Thomas’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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