Evergreen · Licensed center
The Great Escape
- Medium center, licensed for 57 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
- March 16, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since June 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was April 16, 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 6 findings
Supervisory visit · March 16, 2026
2.209.B.4 · Correction due April 16, 2026
Reviewed 8 child files and observed 2 children to be missing a medical statement and one child to have an expired medical statement.
Required correction: Obtain current medical statements completed by a health care provider. Correct by 4/16/26 Document compliance to Specialist by 4/16/26. Correct by 04/16/2026
2.235.F · Correction due March 16, 2026
The Young Toddler classroom to be lacking a toilet facility within the classroom.
Required correction: Toilet facilities for toddlers must be located within their classroom. Correct by 3/16/26. Document compliance to Specialist by 4/16/26. Correct by 03/16/2026
2.237.H · Correction due March 16, 2026
The Young Toddler classroom to be missing an outlet cover on a lower outlet that is accessible to children.
Required correction: In rooms used by children all electrical outlets that are accessible to children must have outlet covers. Correct by 3/16/26. Staff added an outlet cover to the outlet while the Licensing Specialist was present. Corrected at the time of inspection. No response necessary. Correct by 03/16/2026
2.212.G · Correction due April 16, 2026
Licensing Specialist reviewed 14 staff files and observed staff members #1, 2, 3, 4,10 and 12 to be missing a medical statement signed and dated by by a health care professional.
Required correction: Obtain a medical statement signed and dated by a health care provider. Correct by 4/16/26. Document compliance to Specialist by 4/16/26. Correct by 04/16/2026
2.213.B · Correction due March 16, 2026
Licensing Specialist reviewed 14 staff files and observed staff member #2 to have an expired Standard Precautions training.
Required correction: Obtain a current standard precautions training. Correct by 3/16/26. Document compliance to Specialist by 4/16/26. Correct by 03/16/2026
2.220.K · Correction due March 16, 2026
Reviewed 8 child files and observed one child to be missing topical authorization.
Required correction: Obtain written authorization for topical preparations. Correct by 3/16/26. Document compliance to Specialist by 4/16/26. Correct by 03/16/2026
May 2025 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · May 12, 2025
2.121.D.5 · Correction due May 12, 2025
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed D.D., M.N. and S.K. to have an expired FBI background check.
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 D. D., M.N. and S.K. have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of FBI, for staff members D. D., M.N. and S.K. with written response to the Specialist. Correct by 5/12/25. Document compliance to Specialist by 5/19/25. Correct by 05/12/2025
2.209.A.7
Reviewed 6 child files and observed 3 children to have expired emergency medical authorization.
Required correction: Obtain a current emergency medical authorization. Correct by 5/12/25. Document compliance to Specialist by
2.229.G · Correction due May 12, 2025
In Classroom #8, six loose plastic bags and an open roll of trash bags accessible to children, in an unlocked lower cupboard.
Required correction: Loose plastic bags must be inaccessible to children. Correct by 5/12/25. Staff moved the trash bags and the loose plastic bags to an upper cupboard that is inaccessible to children. Corrected at the time of inspection. No response necessary. Correct by 05/12/2025
2.230.C.1.a · Correction due May 12, 2025
The resilient surfacing, pea gravel, to measure less than 3 inches around the large climber with the yellow slide next to the platform entrance and observed the resilient surfacing below the climber with the blue slide to be less than 3 inches next to the blue ladder that leads up to the climber.
Required correction: All climbing equipment eighteen (18) inches or higher must have resilient surfacing of at least six (6) inches in the use zone surrounding the equipment. Correct by 5/12/25. Document compliance to Specialist by 5/19/25. Correct by 05/12/2025
Jun 2024 Supervisory visit 9 findings
Supervisory visit · June 24, 2024
2.121.D.4.a · Correction due June 24, 2024
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed J.C., W.W. and J.D. to have an expired FBI and CBI background check.
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 J. C., W.W. and J.D. have reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of CBI and FBI for staff members J. C., W.W. and J.D. with written response to the Specialist. Correct by 6/24/24. Document compliance to Specialist by 7/24/24. Correct by 06/24/2024
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed J.W. to be missing a TRAILS background check and J.D.
2.213.D · Correction due June 24, 2024
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed J.C., J.W. and W.W. to be missing a current department approved shaken baby/abusive head trauma training.
Required correction: Complete a department approved shaken baby/abusive head trauma training. Correct by 6/24/24. Document compliance to Specialist by 7/24/24. Correct by 06/24/2024
2.213.G
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed N.B. to have an expired child abuse prevention training.
2.213.H · Correction due July 24, 2024
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed J.W. to be missing a Introduction to the Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education Programs training.
Required correction: Complete Introduction to the Early Intervention and Preschool Special Education Programs training. Correct by 7/24/24. Document compliance to Specialist by 7/24/24. Correct by 07/24/2024
2.213.I · Correction due July 24, 2024
Reviewed 6 staff files and observed J.W. to be missing a Recognizing the Impact of Bias on Early Childhood Professionals training
Required correction: Complete the Recognizing the Impact of Bias on Early Childhood Professionals training. Correct by 7/24/24. Document compliance to Specialist by 7/24/24. Correct by 07/24/2024
2.206.A
Reviewed 5 child files and observed 5 children to be lacking a signed document stating that parents/guardians have received the policies and procedures.
2.229.C · Correction due June 24, 2024
Raid Pest Spray, labeled keep out of reach of children in an unlocked storage closet, accessible to children, in the hallway of classroom #4.
Required correction: All items labeled keep out of reach of children must be inaccessible to children. Correct by 6/24/24. Staff placed the raid in a locked closet. Correct at the time of inspection. No response necessary. Correct by 06/24/2024
2.230.C.3.c · Correction due June 24, 2024
Two plastic climbers on the preschool playground to lack a 6 foot use zone surrounding the equipment.
Required correction: Preschool and school-age climbing equipment must have a six (6) foot use zone surrounding the equipment. Correct by 6/24/24. Document compliance to Specialist by 7/24/24. Correct by 06/24/2024
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
- Address
- 3757 Ponderosa Dr
- License
- 45291, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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All checked July 2026.
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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.