Brighton · Licensed family home
Joyce Espinoza
- Mid-size family home, licensed for up to 9 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
- September 1, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since September 2023
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was September 11, 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 11, 2025
2.320.A.7 · Correction due September 11, 2025
Reviewed 7 child files and identified 5 children's written authorization for emergency medical care to be expired.
Required correction: The written authorization for emergency medical care must be updated annually. Submit a written statement of compliance to specialist. Correct by 09/11/2025
2.321.A.3
Reviewed 7 child files and identified one child's medical statement to be expired.
Sep 2024 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · September 17, 2024
2.336.C.15 · Correction due September 17, 2024
Provider to have a 3 lb. fire extinguisher.
Required correction: Obtain a 5 lb. fire extinguisher, correct immediately 9/17/24. Correct by 09/17/2024
2.312.C · Correction due September 17, 2024
Provider to have an expired department approved standard precautions training.
Required correction: Obtain a department approved standard precautions training, correct immediately 9/17/24. Correct by 09/17/2024
Reviewed 8 child files and observed one child to be missing a current health statement.
2.337.B.1.a · Correction due September 17, 2024
Provider to have a climber in the backyard that has a platform of 24 inches in height. Climber is not on resilient material.
Required correction: All climbing equipment over 18 inches must have at least 6 inches in the use zone, correct immediately 9/17/24. Correct by 09/17/2024
Sep 2023 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · September 22, 2023
Correction due September 22, 2023
Reviewed the provider's drill log and observed it to be missing documentation of fire drills for April, May, June 2023 and a tornado drill for August 2023. No documentation of an emergency drill observed for second quarter of 2023.
Required correction: Hold and maintain documentation of all required drills. Correct immediately and send verification of compliance to specialist with written response. Correct by 09/22/2023
7.707.31.A.10
No documentation of a current health evaluation for the provider. The previous health evaluation expired over 30 days ago.
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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Details
- Area
- Brighton, 80602
- License
- 6681, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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All checked July 2026.
Details
- License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
Mid-size means licensed for 7 to 11 children, among Denver-area’s 574 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 4 to 6; full-size is 12, the most any Denver-area family home holds.