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 · January 12, 2026
2.209.B.4 · Correction due January 12, 2026
Reviewed (5) children files and observed (2) children lacking current medical health statement.
Required correction: Immediately (1/12/2026) ensure the center must maintain and update annually and upon changes a copy of the child's health statement completed by a health provider. Provide written statement of compliance within the overall repsonse. Correct by 01/12/2026
2.230.C.1.a · Correction due January 12, 2026
Wooden climbing ladder, located in the toddler classroom, measuring over 18" lacking resilient surfacing.
Required correction: Immediately (1/12/2026) ensure that all climbing equipment over 18 inches has a department approved resilient surfacing of at least 6 inches. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 01/12/2026
Supervisory visit · February 12, 2025
2.212.N · Correction due February 12, 2025
Reviewed (5) staff files and observed (5) staff to be lacking documentation of a signed statement stating staff have read and been trained on the program's policies and procedures for the administration of medications.
Required correction: Immediately (2/12/25) ensure all staff members have read and are trained on the center’s policies and procedures for the administration of medications. Staff members must sign a statement indicating that they have read and have been trained on the center's administration of medications policies and procedures. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 02/12/2025
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.
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