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.
Complaint · March 11, 2026
Unfounded
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.
Supervisory visit · December 16, 2025
2.223.D.5.a.1 · Correction due December 16, 2025
Cots in the Ferns classroom to be less than two feet apart during rest time.
Required correction: Cots must be at least 2 feet apart on all sides. Corrected at the time of inspection, cots were moved to be 2 feet on all sides. No response is necessary. Correct by 12/16/2025
2.229.L
Small sensory jars with loose lids containing confetti and small pine cones in the Nestlings classroom, posing a choking hazard. Art materials including small gemstones, small plastic flowers, and small glue stick lids on a low open shelves accessible to children under the age of 3 years in the Brambles classroom, and several small pieces of broken chalk and small pom poms on the preschool play ground accessible to children under the age of 3 years, posing a choking hazard.
2.230.B · Correction due December 16, 2025
Tin cans in the in the Hatchlings classroom with sharp edges, accessible to children, posing a safety hazard. Two long bolts protruding on the inside of the playhouse on the preschool playground, posing a safety hazard.
Required correction: All equiptment and materials must be safe and free from hazards. Correct by 12/16/2025
Original visit · February 4, 2025
2.121.D.4.a
Reviewed 4 staff files, observed 2 staff to be missing documentation of required background checks. Staff member Jocelyn P. is missing FBI background and staff member Mya E. is missing TRAILS, FBI and CBI.
2.230.C.1.a · Correction due February 4, 2025
Yellow, blue and orange slide/climbing structure on the toddler playground to measure 20 inches in height, located on a grassy area with no resilient surfacing. Resilient surfacing on preschool playground under red slide to be less than 6 inches.
Required correction: Ensure all climbing equiptment over 18 inches has a resilient surface of at least 6 inches. Correct by 02/04/2025
2.230.B · Correction due February 4, 2025
Bolts on the interior roof of the playhouse protruding, posing a potential safety hazard. Screw in the garden bed to be broken and protruding out the backside of the wood, posing a potential safety hazard. Gap between the platform and ladder on the red climber/slide on the preschool playground posing a pinch hazard.
Required correction: Ensure all indoor and outdoor equipment, materials and furnishing must be sturdy, safe and free from hazards. Correct by 02/04/2025
2.229.N · Correction due March 2, 2025
Infant 1 classroom missing adult rocking chair.
Required correction: Infant classrooms must have an adult rocking chair. Correct by 3/2/2025 or prior to license approval. Correct by
2.230.C.6 · Correction due February 4, 2025
Tether ball pole with attached rope on the preschool playground posing a potential strangulation hazard.
Required correction: Ensure all playground equipment is free from strangulation and entrapment hazards. Corrected at the time of inspection, director removed rope and ball from the pole. No response is needed. Correct by 02/04/2025
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 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.
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