Pine · Licensed center
Innovation Learning at Elk Creek ECE
- Small center, licensed for 24 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
- May 21, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since July 2025
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was June 21, 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.
May 2026 Supervisory visit 3 findings
Supervisory visit · May 21, 2026
2.213.D · Correction due May 21, 2026
Reviewed staff files observed Staff 2 to have no documentation of shaken baby head trauma training. Staff 2 DOH 9/2025.
Required correction: Obtain current shaken baby head trauma training and add to file and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 05/21/2026
2.213.H
Reviewed staff files observed Staff 2 to have no documentation of Early intervention training. Staff 2 DOH 9/2025.
Required correction: Obtain current Intro to Early Intervention training and add to file and send written verification to specialist with
2.213.I · Correction due June 21, 2026
Reviewed staff files observed Staff 2 to have no documentation of Recognizing the impact of bias. Staff 2 DOH 9/2025.
Required correction: Obtain current Intro to Recognizing the impact and add to file and send written verification to specialist with response. Correct by 06/21/2026
Jul 2025 Original visit 3 findings
Original visit · July 25, 2025
2.206.A
Reviewed Innovation policies and procedures and identified through K. no policies and procedures handbook is available for review at time of visit for ECE program.
2.120.C.1.a.1 · Correction due July 25, 2025
Reviewed 1 staff file and observed B. to be missing portability background check clearance letter. B. had background checks FBI, CBI and TRAILS from previous licensed RMK program in file.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification that staff members have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of CBI, FBI, TRAILS, Or Out of State background check, Out of State Clearance Letters for staff members with written response to the Specialist. Correct by 07/25/2025
2.121.A.1
Reviewed 1 staff file and observed B. to be missing portability background check clearance letter. B. had background checks FBI, CBI and TRAILS from previous licensed RMK program in file.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's
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
- 13304 Us Hwy 285
- License
- 1785428, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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All checked July 2026.
Details
- Address, License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
Small means the smallest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 10 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 114; large is 115 to 402.