Broomfield · Licensed center
The Children's Center, Inc..
- Medium center, licensed for 62 children.
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 5, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since May 2024
- Fixed?
- Correction was due March 5, 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.
Mar 2026 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · March 5, 2026
2.120.1 · Correction due March 5, 2026
Reviewed 7 staff files and observed SM4 and SM5's files to have expired Trails background check clearance letters.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification that staff members 4 and 5 have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of TRAILS Clearance Letters for staff members 4 and 5 with written response to the Specialist by 3/12/26. Correct by 03/05/2026
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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Who cares for your child
Lisa Heilman (Director) fourteen years there, Allison Ogden eleven years there, Meghan Mariner (Age 3 Program) four years there and Ginger Tonelli (Zoo Phonics Specialist) one years there.
Of 1,717 Denver-area providers, 15 publish how long a named staff member has been there; the longest tenure at each of those has a median of thirteen years.
What it costs
- Application fee
- $35
A day here
- Outdoors
- children play outside 30 minutes daily when conditions allow
Details
- Website
- mckaychildcenter.com
- Address
- 14076 Mckay Park Cir
- License
- 1522630, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Who cares for your child
- Staff mckaychildcenter.com
What it costs
- Application fee — Checked July 2026 mckaychildcenter.com
A day here
- Outdoors — Checked July 2026 mckaychildcenter.com/…/Parent-Permission-Form2025.pdf
Details
- Website — Checked July 2026 mckaychildcenter.com
- Address, License — Checked July 2026 data.colorado.gov
- Quality program — Checked April 2026 data.colorado.gov
Medium means the middle half of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 41 to 114 children. Small is 10 to 40; large is 115 to 402.