Highlands Ranch · Licensed family home
Cari Golightly
- 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 12, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since June 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 12, 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 4 findings
Supervisory visit · February 12, 2026
2.312.P · Correction due February 12, 2026
Reviewed 1 staff file and observed no documentation of completed Injury Prevention Training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of completed training for staff. Correct by 02/12/2026
2.312.N · Correction due February 12, 2026
Reviewed 1 staff file and observed no documentation of completed training for Recognizing the Impact of Bias.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of completed training for staff file. Correct by 02/12/2026
Reviewed 5 child files and observed no documentation of signed authorizations for emergency medical care
2.321.A.2.c · Correction due February 12, 2026
Reviewed 5 child files and observed 1 to be missing documentation of immunization record or exemption.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of immunization record or exemption for child file. Correct by 02/12/2026
Apr 2025 Original Change of Location/Type visit 2 findings
Original Change of Location/Type visit · April 14, 2025
2.318.C.3 · Correction due April 14, 2025
Reviewed drill log and identified that there was no current written documentation of monthly smoke alarm testing.
Required correction: The following emergency records must be kept and maintained at the family child care home for 12 months: dates of monthly smoke alarm testing. Submit a written response of compliance to the specialist. Correct by 04/14/2025
2.321.A.3
Reviewed 6 child files and observed 4 children missing a current health statement that was signed and dated by the health care provider.
Jun 2024 Original visit 4 findings
Original visit · June 28, 2024
2.320.A.2 · Correction due June 28, 2024
Reviewed a sample of a child file and observed enrollment paperwork to be missing parents employer address and phone number.
Required correction: Include parents employer address and phone number in enrollment paperwork. Submit a written response of compliance to specialist. Correct by 06/28/2024
2.320.A.5
Reviewed a sample of a child file and observed enrollment paperwork to be missing hospital of choice address and phone number.
2.120.C.1.a · Correction due June 28, 2024
Reviewed residents of the home, and observed C.G. to be missing clearance for TRAILS background.
Required correction: Request must be submitted and successfully completed prior to caring for children or allowing unsupervised access to children. Correct by 06/28/2024
2.335.Y · Correction due June 28, 2024
Outside in the backyard of the home, observed approximately 2 feet drop from the cement deck area to the grass area of the yard that could cause a potential hazard to children.
Required correction: Indoor and outdoor equipment, materials and furnishing must be sturdy, safe and free of hazards. Submit a written statement of compliance to specialist. Correct by 06/28/2024
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
- Highlands Ranch, 80129
- License
- 1783037, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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All checked July 2026.
Details
- License, Quality program 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.