Denver · Licensed family home
Barbara Mcmahon
- Full-size family home, licensed for up to 12 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
- February 5, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since March 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 5, 2026. 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.
Feb 2026 Supervisory visit 3 findings
Supervisory visit · February 5, 2026
2.120.C.1.c · Correction due February 5, 2026
Identified through provider's statement that Resident #1 lives in the home and observed no documentation of Trails clearance for Resident #1.
Required correction: Provider must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification the provider reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Notify the Licensing Specialist in writing once the resident has completed the fingerprinting process. Correct by 02/05/2026
2.321.A.3
Reviewed 14 child files and observed no current documentation of health appraisal for 3 children.
2.320.A.7 · Correction due February 5, 2026
Reviewed 14 child files and observed no current documentation of emergency medical authorization for 1 child.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain current documentation of emergency medical authorization. Correct by 02/05/2026
Feb 2025 Supervisory visit 6 findings
Supervisory visit · February 13, 2025
2.321.A.2.c.1 · Correction due February 13, 2025
Reviewed 13 child files and observed one child to have outdated documentation of nonmedical immunization documentation on a form dated 2016.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain current documentation of nonmedical exemption form dated May 2023. Correct by 02/13/2025
2.321.A.3
Reviewed 13 child files and observed 2 children to have no documentation of health statement and 1 child to have expired documentation of health statement.
2.312.K · Correction due March 15, 2025
Reviewed 2 staff files and observed no dcumentation of Playground Safety training for staff member A.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of Playground Safety training for A. Correct by 03/15/2025
2.312.M · Correction due March 15, 2025
Reviewed 2 staff files and observed no documentation of Introduction to Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education Programs training for provider Barbara and staff member A.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of Introduction to Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education Programs training for provider Barbara and staff member A. Correct by 03/15/2025
2.312.P
Reviewed 2 staff files and observed no documentation of Injury Prevention for Homes training for staff member A.
2.312.Q · Correction due March 15, 2025
Reviewed 2 staff files and observed no documentation of Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant for provider Barbara.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain documentation of Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation for provider Barbara. Correct by 03/15/2025
Mar 2024 Supervisory visit 8 findings
Supervisory visit · March 20, 2024
2.336.C.1 · Correction due March 20, 2024
One box of gallon size ziploc bags in an unlocked drawer in the kitchen accessible to children and posing a potential hazard.
Required correction: Immediately make all hazardous items inaccessible to children. CORRECTED AT TIME OF INSPECTION - provider moved ziploc bags to a high cabinet making them inaccessible to children. No response required. Correct by 03/20/2024
2.321.A.3
Reviewed 9 child files and observed 2 children to have expired health statements and 1 child to have no documentation of a health statement.
2.311.A.14 · Correction due April 20, 2024
Reviewed provider's file and observed no documentation of current health statement and no documentation of a health statement for resident S.B.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain current documentation of health statement. Correct by 04/20/2024
2.312.H · Correction due March 20, 2024
Reviewed 3 staff files and observed no current documentation of Abuse Prevention training for provider Barbara.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain current documentation of abuse training. Correct by 03/20/2024
Reviewed 3 staff files and observed provider Barbara's FBI clearance to be expired.
2.120.A · Correction due March 20, 2024
Identified through provider's statement that staff aides A. B and A.V. work with the provider. Specialist observed no documentation of Trails clearance for staff members A. B and A.V.
Required correction: Provider must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification the provider reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Notify Licensing Specialist in writing once the resident has completed the Trails application. Correct by 03/20/2024
2.120.C.1.c
Identified through provider's statement that S.B. now resides in the home as a tenant. Specialist observed no documentation of Trails clearance for resident S.B.
2.313.A · Correction due March 20, 2024
Reviewed 3 files and observed no complete staff file for staff aide A. V.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain complete records for staff files to be available for review upon request by the department. Correct by 03/20/2024
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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Details
- Area
- Denver, 80206
- License
- 66960, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Details
- License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
Full-size means licensed for 12 children, the most any Denver-area family home holds; 213 of Denver-area’s 574 licensed family homes are. Small is 4 to 6; mid-size is 7 to 11.