Commerce City · Licensed family home
Michelle Gray
- 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
- April 22, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since July 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 22, 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 22, 2026
2.336.C.1 · Correction due April 22, 2026
In the kitchen there was dish soap and dishwasher pods on the sink counter labeled "keep out of reach", in the downstairs bathroom there was deodorant, contact lens solution and hair dye in an unsecured caddy drawer labeled "keep out of reach", and in the pass through bathroom there was shaving cream labeled "keep out of reach" and sharp razors under the sink in an unlocked cabinet. All items were accessible and posed a potential hazard to children.
Required correction: Ensure that hazardous items are inaccessible to children at all times. Correct Immediately. ** Corrected at the time of visit by locking the kitchen soaps in the under sink cabinet, making the downstairs bathroom caddy inaccessible to children and by removing the shaving cream and razors from the pass through bathroom. All items were made inaccessible and safe from children. No response required. Correct by 04/22/2026
2.321.B.8.c · Correction due April 22, 2026
In the down stairs bathroom there were personal Magnesium vitamins on a storage shelf accessible to children.
Required correction: Ensure that all personal medications and vitamins are locked and inaccessible to children at all times. Correct Immediately. ** corrected at the time of visit by removing the vitamins from the bathroom and locking them up to be inaccessible to children. No response required. Correct by 04/22/2026
May 2025 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · May 20, 2025
2.316.A · Correction due June 20, 2025
Reviewed 8 children files and found 2 children without documentation of a signed policies authorization.
Required correction: Obtain and maintian documentation for all children enrolled in the program. Correct by 06/20/2025
2.320.A.9 · Correction due May 20, 2025
Reviewed 8 children files and found 1 child without documentation of a signed field trip authorization.
Required correction: Obtain and maintian documentation for all children enrolled in the program. Correct immediately and submit compliance by 6/20/25 Correct by 05/20/2025
2.321.A.3 · Correction due June 20, 2025
Reviewed 8 children files and found 3 children with expired health statements and 1 child without documentation of a health statement.
Required correction: Obtain and maintian documentation for all children enrolled in the program. Correct by 06/20/2025
2.336.C.1 · Correction due May 20, 2025
In the bathroom used by children there was hand soap labeled "Keep out of reach" and in the kitchen there was an unsecured drawer with sharp knives, all accessible to children.
Required correction: Ensure that all items labeled "keep out of reach" and all sharp items are inaccessible to children at all times. Correct immediately. ** Corrected at time of visit by removing the soap from the bathroom and putting the knives in a locked upper cabinet, making all items inaccessible. No response required. Correct by 05/20/2025
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
- Commerce City, 80022
- License
- 1776968, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 2
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Details
- License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 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.