We actively encourage our team to participate in volunteer activities, ranging from school holiday events, field trips, evening programs, and more, ensuring the younger people in our care are well supported. And when family members are unable to volunteer or engage in school activities, our staff are there to step in as a supportive presence.
Volunteer & Community Partnerships
Come explore volunteer opportunities at Stonecrest where you can find your own purpose through sharing your talents and gifts.
Stonecrest Living also provides unique opportunities to individually volunteer in a way that emphasizes community connectedness, personal interests, and a need for positive social interactions. These include:
Helping with painting, seasonal crafts, or simple DIY projects.
Weekly Bible study group for spiritual practice.
Decorating, serving treats, or helping organize themed events.
Leading weekly book club.
Supporting other care team members during stretching, balance, or movement classes.
Weekly chair yoga exercises to support flexibility and strength.
Leading small “armchair” chats about travel memories, favorite foods, childhood stories, and other topics.
Spending time with people who don’t get many visitors, which can brighten a day or entire week.
Supporting people in tending to indoor plants or a small outdoor garden.
Helping write updates to family or others in the community.
Bringing books, magazines, or small items room-to-room.
Helping during busy dining times with seating, conversation, or carrying trays.
Playing an instrument, singing, or leading sing-alongs.
Bringing in a certified therapy animal.
Helping people create memory books or organize old photos.
Reading aloud to people with impaired vision.
Interviewing people and helping them document their life stories.
Assisting with tablets, phones, email, or video calls.
Playing Bingo, trivia, board or word games, among others.
Joining others for indoor and outdoor walks.
To work or volunteer at Stonecrest, each person must complete a screening process and receive ongoing training that supports their understanding of how to serve with purpose, humility and compassion.
Fill out a volunteer request form here
For individuals at Stonecrest Living, home needs to be more than a noun, or place, but instead a welcoming experience. Our community partners are a key part of our support system, and we regularly collaborate with them to provide individuals with a much-needed sense of connectedness.
Training & Workshops
Our trauma-informed care model emphasizes safety, structured routines, and respectful, attuned communication backed by a highly trained and responsive team. To support this model, we provide ongoing training on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis to ensure competency and compliance with county and statewide regulations. This training emphasizes neurocognitive distinctions and caregiving that is loving, person-centered, culturally intelligent, and highly collaborative.
Take a look at the varied onboarding and training resources we make available to our care team members.
Training Schedule
- Vulnerable Adults Act and Maltreatment of Minors (.75 hours)
- Employee Job Duties and Expectations (.5 hours)
- Reporting Incidents, Serious injuries and Emergencies (.75 hours)
- Stonecrest Policy and Procedures ( 1 hour)
- Protecting Data Privacy: HIPAA (.5 hours)
- Person Centered Planning and Service Delivery (3 hours)
- Individual Rights And Disability Rights History (1 hour)
- Drug and Alcohol Abuse (.5 hours)
- Stonecrest Living Policy and Procedure Acknowledgment
- Stonecrest Living Terms of Employment
- Stonecrest Living Drug and Alcohol Contract
- Stonecrest Living Fraud and Abuse Training Acknowledgment
- Stonecrest Living Policies and Procedures Location and Acknowledgement
- Basic First Aid Training (2 hours)
- Minimizing the Risk of Sexual Violence ( .5 hours)
- Activities of Daily Living (ADLs and IADLs) ( .75 hours)
- Nutrition and Healthy Diet (.5 hours)
- Introduction to Safe Medication Support and Administration (4 hours)
- Stonecrest Program Abuse Prevention Plan Review (.25 hours)
- Universal Precautions and Bloodborne Pathogens (.5 hours)
- Positive Supports Rule Core Training (8 hours)
- Children’s Mental Health – DHS Training (2 hours)
- Child Foster Care Orientation (6 hours)
Child Foster Care Trainings
- Anger Pie (1 hour)
- Autism: A Strength Based Approach (.5 hours)
- Building Trust, Motivating Change (1 hour)
- Child Development (1 hour)
- Child Safety and Supervision (.5 hours)
- Child Entering Care: Physical Health Issues (.5 hours)
- Child Entering Care: Mental Health Issues (1 hour)
- Could it be Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (1 hour)
- House Safety (.5 hours )
- Social & Physical Aggression – Advanced Parenting Workshop (1 hour)
- Supporting Normalcy (1 hour)
- Eating and Food Issues (1 hour)
- Escalating Behaviors Unwrapped (1 hour)
- Lying vs. Telling Untruths (1 hour)
- Understanding Non-Compliance (1 hour)
- Working with Schools (1 hour)
- Running Away / Elopement (.5 hours)
- Non-Compliance and Defiance (.5 hours)
- Self-Injury – Advanced Parenting Workshop (.5 hours)
- Sleep Problems (.5 hours)
- Substance-Exposed Infants (.5 hours)
- Taking Things and Stealing (.5 hours)
- Taking Things without Permission (.5 hours)
- The Role of Mandated Child Abuse Reporters (.5 hours)
- ADLs /IADLs
- Medical Equipment
- Mental Health Basics (2 hours)
- Personality Disorders (2.5 hours)
- Reactive Attachment Disorder (1 hour)
- Fire Safety Awareness – Health and Safety Category (.5 hours)
- Orientation to individual service recipient needs – In Program Specific Training (1 hour)
- Responding to and Reporting incidents – In Program Specific Training (1 hour)
- Safety Practices – In Program Specific Training (.25 hours)
- Other topics as determined by Program – In Program Specific Training (.25 hours)
- Emergency Plan (.25 hours)
- Medication Administration Training (3 hours)
- Medication Administration and Documentation Observed Skills Medication (.25 hours)
- Stonecrest Living Medication Administration (2.1 hours)
- Stonecrest Living Activities of Daily Living (2 hours)
- Stonecrest Emergency Response and Reporting (.75 hours)
- Date of First Supervised Training
- Date Oriented to Individual Needs
- Date of First Unsupervised
