Aurora · Licensed family home

Lynda Anderson

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 24, 2026
On file
3 visits since May 2024
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was June 29, 2024. 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 report not read State records file
Apr 2025 Supervisory visit report not read State records file
May 2024 Supervisory visit 4 findings

Supervisory visit · May 29, 2024

2.320.A.7 · Correction due May 29, 2024

Reviewed 13 children files. Observed 6 children’s files with expired Emergency Medical Authorization.

Required correction: Review all children's files. All children’s files must have a dated, written authorization for emergency medical care signed and updated annually by the parent(s) or guardian(s). Submit a written statement of compliance by 06/29/2024. Correct by 05/29/2024

2.321.E.1

Reviewed 13 children’s files. Observed 1 child’s file lacking sun protection authorization.

2.316.B.10 · Correction due June 29, 2024

Reviewed the parent handbook. Observed the parent handbook lacking a policy regarding substitute care.

Required correction: A written policy and procedure must be developed, implemented and followed for substitute care. Submit documentation and a written statement of compliance by 06/29/2024. Correct by 06/29/2024

2.316.B.19

Reviewed the parent handbook. Observed the parent handbook lacking written policies on how disciplinary decisions are made and the steps taken prior to the suspension and expulsion of children.

Required correction: A written policy and procedure must be developed and followed regarding how disciplinary decisions are made and the steps taken prior to the suspension or expulsion of a child from the program. Submit documentation and a written

State records file

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, 80013
License
81185, active
Quality program
Colorado Shines Level 1

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Details

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.