Aurora · Licensed family home
Joan Paterson
- 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
- March 13, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since May 2024
- Fixed?
- Correction was due March 13, 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.
Mar 2026 Supervisory visit 7 findings
Supervisory visit · March 13, 2026
2.312.C · Correction due March 13, 2026
Observed SM to be working actively with children in care. Reviewed SM file, the file is lacking documentation of Department approved Standard Precautions Training.
Required correction: Immediately. Prior to working with children all staff members must complete a Department approved Standard Precautions Training. Submit documentation and written statement of compliance by 4/13/2026. Correct by 03/13/2026
Observed SM to be working actively with children in care. Reviewed SM file, the file is lacking documentation of Department approved First Aid and CPR Training.
2.312.F · Correction due March 13, 2026
Observed SM to be working actively with children in care. Reviewed SM file, the file is lacking documentation of building and physical premises Training.
Required correction: Immediately. Prior to working with children all staff members must complete a building and physical premises Training. Submit documentation and written statement of compliance by 4/13/2026. Correct by 03/13/2026
2.312.G · Correction due March 13, 2026
Observed SM to be working actively with children in care. Reviewed SM file, the file is lacking documentation of Department approved prevention of shaken baby/abusive head trauma Training.
Required correction: Immediately. Prior to working with children, if working with children less than 3 years of age, all staff members must complete a Department approved prevention of shaken baby/abusive head trauma Training. Submit documentation and written statement of compliance by 4/13/2026. Correct by 03/13/2026
2.312.H · Correction due March 13, 2026
Observed SM to be working actively with children in care. Reviewed SM file, the file is lacking documentation of a Department approved child abuse prevention training.
Required correction: Immediately. Prior to working with children, if working with children less than 3 years of age, all staff members must complete a Department approved child abuse prevention training. Submit documentation and written statement of compliance by 4/13/2026. Correct by 03/13/2026
2.312.I · Correction due March 13, 2026
Observed SM to be working actively with children in care. Reviewed SM file, the file is lacking documentation of a Department approved safe sleep training.
Required correction: Immediately. Prior to working with children, if working with children less than 3 years of age, all staff members must complete a Department approved safe sleep training. Submit documentation and written statement of compliance by 4/13/2026. Correct by 03/13/2026
2.336.C.1
Observed in the bathroom razors, creams and cosmetics labeled keep out of reach of children in the left drawer accessible to children.
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
- Aurora, 80016
- License
- 1622675, 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
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.