Wheat Ridge · Licensed family home
Virginia Briano
- Full-size family home, licensed for up to 12 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state lists 4 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
- January 21, 2026
- On file
- 4 visits since September 2023
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was July 2, 2025. 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.
Jul 2025 Supervisory visit 4 findings
Supervisory visit · July 2, 2025
2.320.A.7 · Correction due July 2, 2025
Reviewed 3 child files and found one to have an expired emergency medical authorization.
Required correction: Emergency medical authorization must be updated annually. Correct immediately. Correct by 07/02/2025
2.138.A
No emergency drill log for review by the specialist.
Required correction: Emergency drills must be conducted and documented for review for the last 12 months. Correct immeditaley.
2.318.C.3 · Correction due July 2, 2025
No monthly smoke alarm testing documentation for specialist to review.
Required correction: Monthly smoke alarm testing must be conducted and documented for review. Correct immediately. Correct by 07/02/2025
2.336.C.15.a · Correction due July 2, 2025
Current 5 lbs. fire extinguisher to have a date of 2015.
Required correction: Fire extinguishers must be replaced every 5 years. Correct immediately. Correct by 07/02/2025
Jul 2024 Supervisory visit 1 finding
Supervisory visit · July 30, 2024
2.320.A.7 · Correction due July 30, 2024
Reviewed 2 children files, identified one child with an expired emergency medical authorization.
Required correction: Obtain a current signature and date for the emergency medical authorization. Submit a written statement of compliance to the Specialist. Correct by 07/30/2024
Sep 2023 Supervisory visit 3 findings
Supervisory visit · September 7, 2023
7.707.6.D · Correction due September 7, 2023
Visitor log was not available at the time of entering the home.
Required correction: Obtain visitor log. Corrected at the time of visit: C. printed a new form for us to sign/date. No written response needed. Correct by 09/07/2023
7.707.923.A
Diaper creams on window sill by diaper changing area, clorox wipes on kitchen counter, equate soap and clorox cleaner under bathroom sink, plant food and soil on table outside, all items labeled keep out of reach of children.
Required correction: Immediately, all items with a manufacture label of 'keep out of reach' must be inaccessible to all children.
7.707.932.D · Correction due September 7, 2023
Red slide over 2' was on concrete by back shed.
Required correction: Immediately, all climbing equipment over 2 feet (24 inches) must be on protective surfacing. Submit a statement of compliance by 9/14/2023. Correct by 09/07/2023
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
- Wheat Ridge, 80214
- License
- 72857, active
- Quality program
- Colorado Shines Level 1
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Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
All checked July 2026.
Details
- License, Quality program data.colorado.gov
Full-size means licensed for 12 children, the most any Denver-area family home holds; 213 of Denver-area’s 574 licensed family homes are. Small is 4 to 6; mid-size is 7 to 11.