Licensing Standards
for DayCare Centers
Section .22
CHILD CARE CENTER
Child care centers, less than 24-hour programs of care defined at 26-6-102(1),
C.R.S., include the following types of facilities:
- A. A large child care center provides care for 16 or more children
between the ages of 2 1/2 and 16 years.
- B. A small child care center provides care for 5 through 15 children
between the ages of 2 and 16 years.
- C. An infant nursery provides care for children between the ages
of 6 weeks and 18 months.
- D. A toddler nursery provides care for children between the ages
of 12 months (when walking independently! and 36 months.
- E. Preschool is a part-day child care program for children younger
than school age.
- F. Kindergarten provides a program for children the year before
they enter the first grade.
- G. A school-age child care center is a child care center that provides
care for 5 or more children who are between 5 and 16 years of age. The center's
purpose is to provide child care and/or an outdoor recreational experience
using a natural environment. The center operates for more than one week during
the year. The term includes facilities commonly known as "day camps,"
"summer camps," "summer playground programs," "before
and after school programs," and "extended day programs." This
includes centers operated with or without compensation for such care, and
with or without stated educational purposes.
- A building-based school-age child care program is a child
care program that provides care for 5 or more children who are between 5 and
16 years of age. The center is located in a building that is regularly used
for the care of children.
- A mobile school-age child care program provides care for
5 or more children who are at least 7 years of age or have completed the first
grade. Children move from one site to another by means of transportation provided
by the governing body of the program. The program uses no permanent building
on a regular basis for the care of children.
- An outdoor-based school-age child care program provides
care for 5 or more children who are at least 7 years of age or have completed
the first grade. This program uses no permanent building on a regular basis
for the care of children. Children are cared for in a permanent outdoor or
park setting.
H. A Residential Camp is a facility operating for three or more consecutive
24-hour days for the care of 5 or more children. The campers must have completed
kindergarten or be at least 6 years old to 18 years old.
- A residential camp may have a Primitive Camp which is a portion
of the permanent camp premises or another site at which the basic needs for
camp operation such as places of abode, water supply systems, and permanent
toilet and/or cooking facilities are not usually provided.
- A Trip Camp is a camp in which children move from one site
to another by means of the child's own power or by a transportation mode permitting
the child's guidance of a vehicle or animal. The trip camp originates in Colorado
and operates for three or more consecutive 24-hour days during the year for
the care of 5 or more children who are at least 10 years old or have completed
the fourth grade to 18.
I. A Day Treatment Center is a facility that provides less than 24-hour
care for groups of 5 or more children from 5 to 18 years of age and for those
persons to 21 years old who are placed in the program by court order prior to
their eighteenth birthday. The center must provide a structured program of various
types of psycho-social and/or behavioral treatments to prevent or reduce the need
for placement of the child out of the home or community. This definition does
not include special education programs operated by a public or private school
system or programs that are licensed by other regulations of the Department of
Human Services for less than 24-hour care of children, such as a child care center
or part-day preschool.
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