Crestwood Continuing Education Units – Approved Courses

Crestwood is an Approved Provider with the Board of Registered Nursing, National Association of Social Workers, and the Nursing Home Administrators Program and offers the opportunity to earn continuing education units!

Click here to view a list of Crestwood Continuing Education Units approved courses.

Crestwood Library

Did you know you can check out books from the Crestwood Library? We have books ranging from topics on mental health treatment to overcoming trauma and addiction. There are books on leadership, mindfulness, spirituality and more!

Click here to learn about the simple check-out process and see our extensive list of titles.

Learning and Performance Team (LPT) Update

CINSERE Trainings
The Learning and Performance Team (LPT) recently hosted our DSD/Educator conference where we discussed the first three Learning and Performance Foundations modules, the Community Resilience Model, and Trauma Informed Approaches with Raul Almazar. Throughout the conference, we had great attendance and participation from our campuses’ staff developers and educators.

As we continue to provide educational opportunities for staff, we are about to engage in developing another set of CINSERE (Crestwood In-Service Resource) trainings. CINSERE focuses on providing a library of in-service trainings for use at our campuses. The most exciting aspect of creating new CINSERE material is the opportunity to collaborate across our organization. LPT will be working with campus educators, campus developers, home office support teams, and our Crestwood leadership to develop, design, and deliver these resources. Through these trainings we aim to provide our campuses with a unified message that promotes our exemplary Crestwood values and fosters our Pillars of Recovery. CINSERE will feature 10-12 trainings that will meet and exceed the standards for our Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), Community Care Licensing (CCL), and Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) requirements. With the implementation of these trainings, we are able to maintain an ongoing commitment to building an easy-to-access, high-quality online library that embodies our recovery approach using our CLC platform.

New Hire Update
In February, we welcomed our newest Learning and Performance Team members, Joel Kennedy and BreAnna McCormick. Joel has been serving Crestwood since 2014 as a Program Counselor and educator and is looking forward to bringing his education and passion for Trauma Informed Care to bear in support of our campuses. BreAnna has been with Crestwood since 2022, where she served at Lompoc as the Director of Staff Development before joining our team.

Santa Barbara CSS is Open!
Santa Barbara CSS is now up and running! LPT was honored to provide the New Employee Orientation (NEO) in March and help prepare our newest family members by the end of May. We are also very close to opening our new Ponderosa Healing House in San Mateo, which we have been supporting since June of this year. The Ponderosa Healing House is our first medically complex MHRC, featuring 16-beds and various nursing staff! Although this campus includes slightly more nursing involvement (e.g., CNAs), medical concerns are still relatively minor. In addition, we will begin collaborating with our home office administration team, Raul Almazar, and the Crestwood Recovery Resilience Solutions (CRRS) team to provide onboarding and New Employee Orientation for our Mobile Response Team (MRT) and Access Line, launching October 21. These services will be available at our Lompoc campus and will begin serving the Santa Barbara county community on November 15.

Stay tuned for more details to come.

To learn more about what LPT is doing in the future, as well as anything we can support you with, reach out to us at lpt@cbhi.net.