Thornton · Licensed family home
Galina Kocherga
- 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
- April 30, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since July 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was May 30, 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.
Apr 2026 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · April 30, 2026
2.320.A.7 · Correction due April 30, 2026
Reviewed 10 children's files and observed 1 child to have an expired emergency medical authorization
Required correction: Obtain current emergency medical authorization for all children in care. Correct immediately by 4/30/26 and submit written statement of compliance with overall response by 5/30/26. Correct by 04/30/2026
2.120.C.1.a
The provider's assistant did not have a Trails background check clearance letter
2.321.A.3 · Correction due May 30, 2026
Reviewed 10 children's files and observed 3 children to have an expired health statement.
Required correction: Obtain a current health statement for the child whose has expired. Correct and submit written statement of compliance with overall response by 5/30/26 Correct by 05/30/2026
2.312.E · Correction due April 30, 2026
The provider was missing documentation of part II of the Medication Administration training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of part II of the Medication Administration training. Correct immediately by 4/30/26 and submit written statement of compliance with overall response by 5/30/26. Correct by 04/30/2026
Jun 2025 Supervisory visit 5 findings
Supervisory visit · June 9, 2025
2.120.I · Correction due June 9, 2025
The second qualified provider to have an expired Trails background check, observed the background to expire in March of 2025.
Required correction: Obtain Trails background checks for all staff members and individuals who live in the home as required. Correct immediately by 6.9.2025, and submit a written statement of compliance to the Specialist by 6.16.2025. Correct by 06/09/2025
2.121.D.5
The second qualified provider to have an expired FBI background check, observed the background to expire in March of 2025.
2.133.A · Correction due June 9, 2025
Reviewed the provider's file and the qualified staff members file and observed the qualified staff member to be missing documentation of the required emergency preparedness training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of the required emergency preparedness training for all staff members. Correct by 6.9.2025, and submit a written statement of compliance and documentation of the training to the Specialist by 6.16.2205. Correct by 06/09/2025
2.312.E · Correction due June 9, 2025
Reviewed the provider's file and the qualified staff members file and observed the primary provider and the qualified staff member to be missing documentation of the required medication administration training.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of the required medication administration training for all staff members. Correct by 6.9.2025, and submit a written statement of compliance and documentation of the training to the Specialist by 6.16.2205. Correct by 06/09/2025
Two slides, a yellow and green slide, to measure over 18 inches in height and to be missing sufficent resilient
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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Details
- Area
- Thornton, 80241
- License
- 1670065, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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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.