Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report

This dataset includes all non-24 hour licensed child care facilities in the State of Colorado. It is updated monthly, and is intended for public use. It includes CDHS-issued child care license numbers, legal business names as they appear in the licensing application, the types of service the programs provide, the physical location addresses of the programs as they appear in the licensing application, the longitude-latitude coordinate values derived from geocoding services and spatial QA, the valid Colorado Shines quality rating levels (if applicable), total licensed capacities, and CCCAP utilization and fiscal agreement.

Note: As of Jan 1, 2021, the following fields are temporarily unavailable in this release: `CCCAP CHILD COUNT_D1`, `CCCAP CASE COUNT_D1`, and `CCCAP_AMOUNT_PAID_D1`. These columns will be included again in the near future. Please contact the dataset owner for more information as necessary.

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No longer in use columns as of 7/1/2022:

CCCAP CHILD COUNT_D1: the number of children utilizing CCCAP at least once during the month [reflects most current data available; two months prior to the date of this report or D1]

CCCAP CASE COUNT_D1: the number of cases (or families) with at lease one child utilizing CCCAP at least once during the month [reflects most current data available; two months prior to the date of this report or D1]

CCCAP FA EXP DATE_D1: CCCAP fiscal agreement expiration date across any associated county [reflects data two months prior to the date of this report or D1]

CCCAP TOTAL AUTH_D1: the total number of CCCAP authorizations for all fiscal agreements [reflects data two months prior to the date of this report or D1]

CCCAP FA EXP DATE_D2: the latest CCCAP fiscal agreement expiration date across any associated county [reflects most current data available; through the previous two weeks prior from the date of this report or D2]

CCCAP TOTAL AUTH_D2: the total number of CCCAP authorizations for all fiscal agreements [reflects most current data available; through the previous two weeks prior from the date of this report or D2]