Lafayette · Licensed center
Happy Hearts Development Center, INC.
- Large center, licensed for 203 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
- December 30, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was December 30, 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.
Dec 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · December 30, 2025
2.218.C.5.a · Correction due December 30, 2025
Reviewed children's health care plans and observed one child lacking a parent/guardian signature on the health care plan.
Required correction: Ensure all children's health care plans are updated at least every (12) months and as changes occur, include all required information, and are signed by the health care provider and the parent/guardian. ***Corrected at the time of visit. Director obtained the parent's signature on the child's health care plan. NO RESPONSE REQUIRED. Correct by 12/30/2025
Jan 2025 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · January 13, 2025
2.138.A · Correction due January 13, 2025
Reviewed program's files and observed program lacking documentation of a lockdown drill conducted within 3 months of the previously documented lockdown drill.
Required correction: Immediately (1/13/2025) ensure all required drills are completed within the required time frames and documentation of each drill is maintained. Provide a written statement of compliance within the overall response. Correct by 01/13/2025
2.219.B.2
Reviewed 13 child files and observed 2 files with current health statements lacking a signature by a health care provider.
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
- Address
- 411 Homestead St
- License
- 1613607, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 4
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All checked July 2026.
Details
- Address, License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
Large means the biggest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 115 to 402 children. Small is 10 to 40; medium is 41 to 114.