Lakewood · Licensed family home

Carmen Tuesta

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
March 24, 2026
On file
3 visits since April 2024
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was March 24, 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.

Mar 2026 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · March 24, 2026

2.336.C.2 · Correction due March 24, 2026

In living room behind easter tree an outlet with no protective covers to be accessible to children at time of visit.

Required correction: Make all electrical outlets and power strips must have [rotective covers or safety outlet must be installed, correct immediately. Corrected at time of visit provider place outlet covers. No response needed. Correct by 03/24/2026

State records file

Apr 2025 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Apr 2024 Supervisory visit 2 findings

Supervisory visit · April 24, 2024

2.138.A · Correction due April 24, 2024

identified through provider that she does all drills but does not have documentation of drills held.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of drills held and have available to specialist at visit. Correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 04/24/2024

2.312.K

reviewed providers file and observed no documentation of approved playground safety for homes training.

State records file

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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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
Lakewood, 80228
License
1740854, active
Quality program
Colorado Shines Level 2

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Details

Small means the smallest quarter of Denver-area’s 574 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity: 4 to 6 children. Mid-size is 7 to 11; full-size is 12, the most any Denver-area family home holds.