Wheat Ridge · Licensed family home
Dana Baudien
- 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 4 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 18, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since November 2023
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was February 18, 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 1 finding
Supervisory visit · February 18, 2026
2.336.C.1 · Correction due February 18, 2026
in kitchen unlocked drawer with different size empty ziplock bags accessible to children causing a potential safety hazard.
Required correction: All hazardous items and materials must be inaccessible to children, correct immediately, corrected at time of visit , provider removed container with bags and placed in top locked cabinet. No response needed. Correct by 02/18/2026
Mar 2025 Supervisory visit 3 findings
Supervisory visit · March 4, 2025
2.336.C.7 · Correction due March 4, 2025
in bedroom no permanent access to the exit window in basement.
Required correction: Windows used as a second exit where the window height is over 30 inches there must be a permanent access to the window. Correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 03/04/2025
2.337.D.2 · Correction due March 4, 2025
A white plastic basket to be broken in the yard and have sharp edges causing a potential safety hazard to children. Observed in back area of yard 2 tomato cages to be laying on floor making top sharp edges accessible to children causing potential safe hazard.
Required correction: All outdoor play areas shall frequently be survey and must be kept safe and free from hazards. Correct immediately and send written response to specialist. Correct by 03/04/2025
2.336.C.1 · Correction due March 4, 2025
in white unlocked cabinet shaving cream and beads to be accessible to children.
Required correction: All hazardous items and materials must be inaccessible to children. Correct immediately, correct at time of visit provider place lock and made cabinet inaccessible to children. Correct by 03/04/2025
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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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
- Wheat Ridge, 80033
- License
- 1560324, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
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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.