Northglenn · Licensed family home

Dorothy Barnes

Small family home, licensed for up to 6 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 4, 2026
On file: 3 visits since March 2024
Fixed?: The latest correction deadline was March 4, 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 6 findings

Supervisory visit · February 4, 2026

2.312.C · Correction due February 4, 2026

Reviewed 2 staff files and observed missing documentation of Standard Precautions training for Dorothy Barnes.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of Standard Precautions training for all staff. Correct by 02/04/2026

2.320.A.7

Reviewed 3 children's files and observed expired or missing documentation for emergency medical care for CH 1-2/15/2025, CH 2- 9/7/25, and CH 3- Missing.

Required correction: Obtain current documentation of emergency medical authorization for all children in care. Correct by

2.321.A.2.c · Correction due February 4, 2026

Reviewed 3 children's file and observed CH3 to be missing documentation of current immunization status.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of immunization status for all children in care. Correct by 02/04/2026

2.321.A.3 · Correction due March 4, 2026

Reviewed 3 children's files and observed missing documentation of current statement of health for CH3.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of statement of health statement for all children in care. Correct by 03/04/2026

Observed fire extinguisher to be manufactured in 2012.

2.312.R.1 · Correction due February 4, 2026

Reviewed 2 files and observed Mary 3.75 training hours for 2025.

Required correction: Obtain an additional 3.25 hours of training for Mary. Correct by 02/04/2026

State records file

Mar 2025 Supervisory visit report not read State records file

Mar 2024 Supervisory visit report not read 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: Northglenn, 80233
License: 47278, active
Quality program: Colorado Shines Level 1

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Sources and dates

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

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.