Morrison · Licensed family home
Kara Applegate
- 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
- December 3, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since February 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was January 16, 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.
Jan 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · January 16, 2025
2.312.I · Correction due January 16, 2025
Reviewed 2 staff files, identified Kara and Amber to have expired safe sleep trainings.
Required correction: Obtain current trainings for both employees, maintain in staff files. Submit a written statement of compliance with documentation to the Specialist. Correct by 01/16/2025
Feb 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · February 26, 2024
7.707.923.A · Correction due February 26, 2024
In the main level bathroom, observed Safely Hand Soap with a manufacture label of 'Keep out of reach of children", on the sink, accessible to children.
Required correction: Immediately, all items with a manufacture label of keep out of reach of children must be inaccessible to all children. Corrected at the time of visit: Kara removed from the bathroom to a kitchen cabinet. No written response needed. Correct by 02/26/2024
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 9, 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
- Morrison, 80465
- License
- 1520836, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
Details
- License, Quality program 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.