Denver · Licensed family home
Elka Popack
- 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 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
- August 17, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since May 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 9, 2025. 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.
Sep 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · September 9, 2025
2.312.Q · Correction due October 9, 2025
Reviewed (3) staff files and observed (1) file lacking documentation of a completed certificate for "Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant".
Required correction: Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response ensuring the provider and all staff have completed the Department-approved training “Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant.” Correct by 10/09/2025
2.312.E
Reviewed (3) staff files and observed (1) file lacking documentation of a current completed Department approved training for medication administration
May 2024 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · May 16, 2024
2.213.N · Correction due June 16, 2024
Reviewed 3 staff files and observed Director E.'s file to be missing current documentation of Department approved CDPHE immunization course for all staff who are responsible for the collection, review, and maintenance of children's immunization records.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of Department approved CDPHE immunization course for all staff who are responsible for the collection, review, and maintenance of children's immunization records. Correct and respond with verification of compliance by 6/16/24 Correct by 06/16/2024
2.219.B.2
Reviewed 2 child files and observed CH1 to be missing current health statement signed and dated by health care provider.
2.138.A · Correction due May 16, 2024
Program lacking documentation of the required fire, tornado and lockdown drills that have been completed within the last 12 months that includes that date, time and duration of the drills along with the number of children and staff present.
Required correction: Ensure documentation of the required fire, tornado and lockdown drills that have been completed within the last 12 months that includes that date, time and duration of the drills along with the number of children and staff present. Correct immediately and respond with a plan for ongoing compliance by 6/16/24. Correct by 05/16/2024
2.127.A
During walk through observed the posted child care license to be expired.
Required correction: Obtain and post current child care license. Correct immediately and respond with verification by 6/16/24
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 11, 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
- Denver, 80224
- License
- 1641495, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 5
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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.