Denver · Licensed family home
Valerie Lovato
- 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 29, 2026
- On file
- 3 visits since July 2024
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was May 29, 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 1 finding
Supervisory visit · April 29, 2026
2.312.J · Correction due May 29, 2026
Reviewed the provider's file and observed file to be lacking current documentation of a CDPHE immunization course.
Required correction: Obtain a CDPHE immunization course and renew annually. Correct and respond with documentation of training by 5/29/2026. Correct by 05/29/2026
Jul 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · July 16, 2024
2.312.J · Correction due July 16, 2024
Reviewed provider's file and observed it to be missing current documentation of a completed CDPHE immunization course.
Required correction: Obtain current documentation of a completed CDPHE immunization course. Correct immediately and respond with verification of compliance by 7/23/24. Correct by 07/16/2024
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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Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
Details
- Area
- Denver, 80227
- License
- 1503784, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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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.