Highlands Ranch · Licensed family home
Amber Spear
- Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 9 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 3 visits below. Shortlist has not read the reports behind them, so there is no share of visits that cited something to set beside other providers yet.
State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood
- Last visit
- November 17, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since January 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was November 24, 2025. Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
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.
Nov 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · November 17, 2025
2.336.C.15.a · Correction due November 17, 2025
At the time of inspection the specialist observed a Fire Extinguisher dated 2018.
Required correction: Fire Extinguishers must be repleaced at least every 6 years. Submit a written response of compliance to the specialist. Correct by 11/17/2025
2.321.A.5 · Correction due November 24, 2025
Reviewed 11 child files and observed one child missing a current health statement.
Required correction: Health statements for children 2 years to 7 years of age must be updated in accordance with the AAP recommendations. Submit a written response of compliance. Correct by 11/24/2025
Jan 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · January 22, 2024
7.707.71.B.1 · Correction due January 22, 2024
Reviewed 10 child files and observed 2 child files missing current written emergency medical authorization.
Required correction: Obtain current documentation of written emergency medical authorization. Correct by 01/22/2024
Where this record comes from
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 October 9, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in October 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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Shortlist replaces people’s names in the state’s text with initials. This is done by rule, not by hand, so it can miss a name or shorten a word that isn’t one. The state’s report, linked on each row, has the original.
Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
Details
- Area
- Highlands Ranch, 80129
- License
- 1508530, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
Details
- License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
Mid-size means licensed for 7 to 11 children, among Denver-area’s 574 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 4 to 6; full-size is 12, the most any Denver-area family home holds.