Littleton · Licensed family home

Marla Adams

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 10, 2025
On file
3 visits since January 2024
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was January 10, 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.

Dec 2025 Supervisory visit 6 findings

Supervisory visit · December 10, 2025

2.321.A.5 · Correction due January 10, 2026

Reviewed 6 child files, observed CH1, CH4 and CH6 to have missing and/or expired health statements.

Required correction: Obtain current health statements for CH1, CH4 and CH6, retain in child file. Submit written statement of compliance to licensing specialist. Correct by 01/10/2026

2.312.J · Correction due January 10, 2026

Provider to have an expired (9/12/25) required immunization training.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of current immunization training. Submit documentation of compliance to specialist. Correct by 01/10/2026

2.312.M · Correction due January 10, 2026

Provider to be missing documentation of required Intro to early intervention and preschool special education programs training.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of current Intro to early intervention and preschool special education programs training. Submit documentation of compliance to specialist. Correct by 01/10/2026

2.312.N · Correction due January 10, 2026

Provider to be missing documentation of required Recognizing the impact of bias training.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of current Recognizing the impact of bias training. Submit documentation of compliance to specialist. Correct by 01/10/2026

2.312.Q · Correction due January 10, 2026

Provider to be missing documentation of required Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant training.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of current Working with an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultanttraining. Submit documentation of compliance to specialist. Correct by 01/10/2026

2.321.C.5 · Correction due December 10, 2025

CH6 to have an expired (10/25/2023) health care plan.

Required correction: Obtain current health care plan for CH6. Correct by 12/10/2025

State records file

Jan 2025 Supervisory visit 3 findings

Supervisory visit · January 10, 2025

2.321.A.5 · Correction due February 10, 2025

Reviewed 7 child files, observed 4 children to have expired health statements.

Required correction: Obtain current updated medical statements for all children with expired health statements. Submit documentation of compliance to licensing specialist. Correct by 02/10/2025

2.320.A.7

Reviewed 7 child files, observed two children to have expired emergency medical authorization forms. (expired 2023)

2.312.H · Correction due January 10, 2025

Reviewed provider file, observed Child Abuse Reporting training to be expired (exp: 2/2023)

Required correction: Obtain updated required child abuse reporting training, submit documentation of compliance to licensing specialist. Correct by 01/10/2025

State records file

Jan 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · January 18, 2024

7.707.71.A.2 · Correction due February 18, 2024

Reviewed five children's records and observed one child to have an expired health statement.

Required correction: Obtain current health statements for all children. Correct by 2.18.2024 and submit a written statement of compliance to the Specialist. Correct by 02/18/2024

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 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
Littleton, 80128
License
71792, active
Quality program
Colorado Shines Level 1

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Details

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.