Arvada · Licensed family home

Melissa Ferris

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
May 26, 2026
On file
3 visits since August 2024
Fixed?
The latest correction deadline was May 26, 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.

May 2026 Supervisory visit 3 findings

Supervisory visit · May 26, 2026

2.321.A.3

Licensing Specialist reviewed 7 child files and observed 2 children to have expired statements of health.

2.336.C.15 · Correction due May 26, 2026

The family child care home to be lacking a fire extinguisher in working condition with a minimum weight of 5 pounds.

Required correction: The family child care home must contain at least one (1) fire extinguisher in working condition with the minimum weight of five 5 pounds. Correct by 5/26/26. Document compliance by 6/26/26. Correct by 05/26/2026

2.321.A.2.c · Correction due May 26, 2026

Licensing Specialist reviewed 7 child files and observed 1 child to be missing documentation of immunization status.

Required correction: Obtain documentation of immunization status. Correct by 5/26/26. Document compliance to Specialist by 6/26/26. Correct by 05/26/2026

State records file

Jul 2025 Supervisory visit 1 finding

Supervisory visit · July 8, 2025

2.312.C · Correction due July 8, 2025

Reviewed the Provider's File and observed the Department-approved training in standard precautions was expired, The certificate on file was dated: 8/25/2023

Required correction: Obtain a Department-approved training in standard precautions. Send verification with written response to Specialist. Correct by 07/08/2025

State records file

Aug 2024 Supervisory visit 3 findings

Supervisory visit · August 5, 2024

2.321.A.3 · Correction due September 5, 2024

Reviewed eight (8) children files and observed two (2) files to have an expired health statement signed and dated by a health care provider.

Required correction: Obtain a health statement signed and dated by a health care provider for two (2) children. Send verification with written response to Specialist. Correct by 09/05/2024

2.336.C.1

In three (3) unlocked kitchen drawers, screws, small batteries, and push pins posing a safety hazard.

2.337.B.1.a · Correction due August 5, 2024

The sliding equipment higher than eighteen (18) inches had a resilient surface of two (2) inches.

Required correction: All climbing equipment, sliding equipment eighteen (18) inches or higher must have a resilient surface of at least six (6) inches in the use zone surrounding the equipment. Correct immediately. Send verification with written response to Specialist. Correct by 08/05/2024

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 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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Details

Area
Arvada, 80004
License
82565, active
Quality program
Colorado Shines Level 1

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Details

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.