Bluff Lake Nature Center

Within (30) calendar days of employment all staff members and regular volunteers must complete a Department-approved training about child abuse prevention, which includes common symptoms and signs of child abuse how to report, where to report, and when to report suspected or know child abuse or neglect. This training must be renewed annually and may count towards ongoing training requirements.

Rule 2.508.D. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 13, 2025. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Oct 22, 2025.

Each program leader must be at least 18 years of age, demonstrate ability to work with children, and must meet the following qualifications: Must have at least three (3) months (460 hours) of full-time or equivalent part-time satisfactory and verifiable e

Rule 2.508.B.3. CDEC’s category: Staff Files. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 21, 2024. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Jul 14, 2024.

Child care health consultants must complete the Department- approved child care health consultant training prior to consulting with the center. The center must obtain and maintain proof of course completion.

Rule 2.508.D.4. CDEC’s category: Staff Files. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jul 21, 2024. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Jul 14, 2024.

There must be at least one (1) program leader providing supervision with each group of thirty (30) or fewer children cared for by the center. When four- (4) year-olds are in attendance, there must be at least one program leader providing supervision with each group of twenty-four (24) or fewer children cared for by the center.

Rule 2.509.C. CDEC’s category: Supervision. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 21, 2024. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Jul 14, 2024.

Criminal background check requests must be submitted and successfully completed prior to an individual caring for children or allowing the individual unsupervised access to children in child care centers (less than 24-hour care), school-aged child care facilities, family child care homes, and qualified exempt provider homes.

Rule 7.701.33.D.4.a.. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 27, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 12, 2023.

At all times during the operating hours of a family child care home, child care center, school-age child care center, or children’s resident camp, the facility must post its most recent licensing inspection report or a notice as to where the report may be reviewed at the facility by the parent or legal guardian of a child or their designee.

Rule 7.701.56.B.. CDEC’s category: General Rules. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 27, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 12, 2023.

At all times during the operating hours of a family child care home, child care center, preschool, school age child care, children?s resident camp, and neighborhood youth organization, the facility must post in a prominent and conspicuous location information regarding the procedures for filing a complaint with the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division Of Early Care And Learning, including the telephone number and mailing address. All 24-hour care agencies and facilities providing out-of-home care and day treatment centers must post in prominent and conspicuous location information regarding the procedures for filing a complaint with the Colorado Department of Human Services, division of child welfare, including the telephone number and mailing address. For foster care homes and child placement agencies, information for filing a complaint must be made available upon request.

Rule 7.701.56.C.. CDEC’s category: General Rules. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 27, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 12, 2023.

A written policy regarding visitors to the center must be posted and a record maintained daily by the center that includes, at a minimum, the visitor’s name and address and the purpose of the visit. At least one piece of identification must be inspected for individuals who are strangers to personnel at the center.

Rule 7.712.32.I.. CDEC’s category: Records/Reports. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 27, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 12, 2023.

The program director must have completed at least one of the following qualifications:Two years of college training and six (6) months (910 hours) of satisfactory and verifiable full-time or equivalent part-time, paid or volunteer, experience, since attaining the age of eighteen (18), in the care and supervision of four (4) or more children; or

Rule 7.712.42.A.1.b.. CDEC’s category: Staff Files. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 27, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 12, 2023.

The center must maintain documentation including the child care health consultant?s (CCHC) Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) proof of RN or MD current licensure in good standing, a brief biography highlighting applicable knowledge, experience and approximate dates worked as a school nurse or Child Care health Consultant commenced.

Rule 7.712.42.D.3.. CDEC’s category: Staff Files. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jul 27, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 12, 2023.

All Child Care Health Consultants (CCHC) must show evidence they have completed the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) immunization course annually.

Rule 7.712.42.D.5.. CDEC’s category: Staff Files. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jul 27, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 12, 2023.

The following records must be on file at the center: Records of enrollment, daily attendance for each child, and daily record of time child arrives at and departs from the center.

Rule 7.712.83.A.1. CDEC’s category: Records/Reports. Correction due, as CDEC set it: Jun 27, 2023. Cleared, as CDEC recorded it: Sep 12, 2023.