Denver · Licensed family home
Kristy Ornelas
- Full-size family home, licensed for up to 12 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
- April 14, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since June 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was May 14, 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.
Apr 2026 Supervisory visit 2 findings
Supervisory visit · April 14, 2026
2.312.Q · Correction due May 14, 2026
Reviewed Provider and Applicant 2's file and observed both files to be lacking documentation of a Department-approved training "Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant."
Required correction: Obtain a Department-approved training "Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant." Correct and respond with documentation of training to Specialist by 5/14/2026. Correct by 05/14/2026
2.320.A.7
Reviewed 10 child files. Observed CH3's file to be lacking current documentation of an authorization for emergency medical care signed by the parent(s) or guardian(s).
May 2025 Supervisory visit 3 findings
Supervisory visit · May 15, 2025
2.320.A.7 · Correction due May 15, 2025
Reviewed 10 child files. Observed CH2, CH7 and CH8's file to be lacking current documentation of a parent/guardian signature authorizing emergency medical care.
Required correction: Obtain a signature from parent/guardian for all children authorizing emergency medical care. Correct immediately and respond with statement of compliance by 5/22/2025. Correct by 05/15/2025
2.337.B.1.a
Observed in the backyard on the playground area, a climbing structure with 2 slides to be approximately 24 inches in height, lacking resilient surfacing of at least six (6) inches in the use zone.
Required correction: Ensure all areas with climbing equipment higher than 18 inches must have resilient surfacing of at least 6
2.335.N · Correction due May 15, 2025
Reviewed the vaccination records for 2 dogs. Observed both dogs lacking current vaccination records.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of vaccination records for all animals. Correct and respond with statement of compliance by 5/22/2025. Correct by 05/15/2025
Jun 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · June 27, 2024
2.121.D.5 · Correction due June 27, 2024
Reviewed Provider, Kristy and Applicant 2, A.'s files and observed them to be missing current documentation of FBI clearance letters.
Required correction: Provider must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification the provider reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Correct immediately and respond with verification of compliance with FBI clearance letters by 7/4/24 Correct by 06/27/2024
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 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.
Ask for this program’s record now
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for Kristy Ornelas’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
Shortlist replaces people’s names in the state’s text with initials. This is done by rule, not by hand, so it can miss a name or shorten a word that isn’t one. The state’s report, linked on each row, has the original.
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
- Denver, 80237
- License
- 68240, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
Run Kristy Ornelas? Correct or add anything here, free.
Add what is missingSources and dates
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.
Details
- License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
Full-size means licensed for 12 children, the most any Denver-area family home holds; 213 of Denver-area’s 574 licensed family homes are. Small is 4 to 6; mid-size is 7 to 11.