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 1, 2025
2.217.A.14 · Correction due October 1, 2025
Preschool classroom out of staff-child ratio, with 15 children and 1 qualified staff.
Required correction: Immediately (10/1/2025) ensure staff-child ratio is in compliance with the appropriate child to staff ratios. Program corrected at time of visit when second teacher returned to the classroom. Provide a written plan of action, along with a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 10/01/2025
2.229.C
A bottle of hand sanitizer and wipes was obeserved next to the stairs to the back door on a shelf accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately (10/1/2025) ensure all items labeled "Keep out of reach of children" are in accessible to children at
2.213.B · Correction due October 1, 2025
In a review of 2 staff files, observed one SM to be missing an updated department-approved standard precautions training prior to working with children.
Required correction: Immediately (10/1/2025) ensure that the program obtains and maintains documentation of a current standard precautions training for all staff to include the above listed staff. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 10/01/2025
Supervisory visit · October 14, 2024
2.120.I
In a review of two staff files, two staff members (Deborah and Vanessa) were found to have TRAILS clearance letters older than five years from the letter date.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification that staff members Deborah and Vanessa have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of TRAILS for staff members Deborah and Vanessa with written response to Specialist. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Dve1uqcQzgGrgXcupoW8iFTY40EXqRXVguaJ-UI4iko/edit#slide=id.g13ed17175
2.213.G · Correction due October 14, 2024
In a review of two staff files, Vanessa was found to be missing current documentation for a Department-approved training about child abuse prevention.
Required correction: Within thirty calendar days of employement, all employees and regular volunteers must be trained using a Department-approved training about child abuse prevention. This training must be renewed annually. Correct immediately. Submit written verification to licensing specialist when training has been completed and documentation has been placed in employee file. Correct by 10/14/2024
Supervisory visit · November 17, 2023
7.702.42.D · Correction due November 17, 2023
Staff file reviewed, Vanessa S. to be missing current department approved shaken baby/abusive head trauma training.
Required correction: Obtain and update file with required department approved training. Correct immediately. Submit written response to specialist. Correct by 11/17/2023
7.702.42.G · Correction due November 17, 2023
Staff file reviewed, Vanessa S. to be missing current department approved child abuse training.
Required correction: Obtain and update file with required documentation. Correct immediately. Submit written response to specialist. Correct by 11/17/2023
7.702.42.K · Correction due December 17, 2023
Staff file reviewed, Vanessa S. to be missing department approved Introduction to childcare health consultation training.
Required correction: Obtain and update file with required documenation. Submit written response to specialist. Correct by 12/17/2023
7.702.42.B · Correction due November 17, 2023
Staff file reviewed, Vanessa S. to be missing current department standard precautions training.
Required correction: Obtain and update file with required documentation. Correct immediately. Submit written response to specialist. Correct by 11/17/2023
7.702.71.C · Correction due November 17, 2023
Classroom to have two large pump bottles of GermX, labeled "keep out of reach of children" to be accessible to children while in care.
Required correction: All "keep out of reach of children" items must be inaccessible to children at all times. Correct immediately. Submit written response to specialist. Correct by 11/17/2023
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 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 Steele Cooperative Preschool’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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