Longmont · Licensed center
Aspen Center for Child Development
- Medium center, licensed for 67 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
- October 29, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since December 2023 · 1 complaint investigation
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was January 7, 2024. 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.
Dec 2023 Complaint Unfounded
Complaint · December 7, 2023
Dec 2023 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · December 7, 2023
7.702.71.L · Correction due December 7, 2023
Three pine cones with loose pieces accessible to children under 3 years of age in the Toddler 1 classroom posing possible hazard.
Required correction: Immediately (12/7/23) ensure that all toys, toy parts, furnishings and equipment that is accessible to children less than 3 years of age is large enough to not be a choke hazard or able to be swallowed. Director removed the pine cones from the classroom at the time of the inspection. NO RESPONSE REQUIRED Correct by 12/07/2023
7.702.71.H
Clay tools accessible to children in an unlocked drawer in the Toddler 2 classroom posing a possible hazard.
Required correction: Immediately (12/7/23) ensure that all sharp tools to include the above listed items are made inaccessible to
7.702.42.M · Correction due January 7, 2024
Reviewed 9 staff files and observed 1 staff (E. F.) lacking documentation of a current immunization training.
Required correction: Ensure that the program obtains and maintains a current training certificate of the CDPHE immunization training for all staff who collect, review and maintain children's immunization documents. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 01/07/2024
7.702.42.G · Correction due December 7, 2023
Reviewed 9 staff files and observed 1 staff (E. F.) lacking documentation of a current training in the prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Required correction: Immediately (12/7/23) ensure that the program obtains and maintains current documentation of the Mandated reporter (Child Abuse Preventions and reporting) training to include the above listed staff. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 12/07/2023
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 10, 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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Details
- Address
- 501 5th Ave
- License
- 69811, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
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All checked July 2026.
Details
- Address, License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
Medium means the middle half of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 114 children. Small is 10 to 40; large is 115 to 402.