Enriching lives in the best way.
Front Porch Centers for Excellence
This is where
we thrive.
Our Centers for Excellence place the focus on individuals as we honor their choices for a deeper, more holistic experience of wellbeing.
Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing
Harnessing technology to help people thrive.
Live life your way. That’s the Front Porch promise. We work to empower people and help them realize their dreams. And that includes using technology solutions that support and enhance wellbeing. Introducing the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing, where residents, staff, research partners, and technology companies collaborate to identify potential opportunities, test them out, find the ones that work, and then rapidly deploy these solutions.
This is more than technology for technology’s sake—it’s specific applications that help maintain brain health, enhance social connectedness, give people control over their own health, prevent emergencies, and increase resources and support to caregivers.
ENGAGE—a Front Porch collaborative
Creating connections that matter.
We see the quality of experiences and the culture of engagement at our communities as a measure of our success. ENGAGE is our unique, collaborative approach to gauge connectedness among residents and staff at our communities.
Through a series of peer-to-peer conversations and focus groups with residents, families, volunteers, and others, we get a 360-degree view of how we are delivering on our promises. This helps us celebrate meaningful experiences and plot our progress toward new and creative ways to delight our residents.
Front Porch Ethics
Service
Living our values every day.
Front Porch is a values-driven company. Like many organizations, we have a set of values that defines our culture, and it’s evident in every one of our daily interactions with residents and with each other.
An awareness and understanding of our “ethical mindedness” is championed through our ethics advocate leaders and Front Porch Ethics Advisory Board. Ethics advocate leaders within their community create an environment to discuss and practice our Front Porch Core Values, provide educational programs, and encourage the use of the ethical decision making process.
It’s this values-driven approach to meeting needs that helps create a trusting environment. Please read our Trust Statement.
Shine!
Our approach to life enrichment.
Our communities are full of passionate people who tell us what’s important and interesting to them. And then we facilitate those experiences, because we know that finding meaning and purpose is key to life enrichment.
We see life enrichment as an opportunity to Shine! This is illuminated through the individual passion and creativity of every resident and teammate who plays a part in our culture of engagement.
Front Porch University
Not a place, but a culture.
We strive to make a difference in the quality of life for those we serve. We seek excellence not just in what we do, but in who we are as people, and as an organization.
It’s this pursuit of service excellence that inspired Front Porch University, a learning community without walls that enables us to build and grow a Front Porch culture of inquiry and engagement that translates learning into a well-prepared, innovative workforce.
Leadership Engagement
New Front Porch leaders are oriented with essential information for their success and learn about the heart and soul of our Front Porch culture.
Front Porch leaders learn about their personal style and hone their communication effectiveness for relationship building, teaming and conflict resolution.
Managers in Motion, through interactive and meaningful discussion, activity and reflection, prepare managers with tools they need to become successfully engaged, accountable and respectful managers.
Meet one of our Managers in Motion.
A culture of continuous learning comes back to benefit our residents with employees that are more confident, more responsive, and more sensitive to their needs today and in the future. Nowhere is this transformation more powerful than with our 5-STAR College.
What starts as a training program regularly ends up changing the lives of each of its participants. 5-STAR College is focused on line-staff, many of whom are aspiring managers. Every year, we teach more than 50 of our line staff employees who in turn teach the rest of the organization. The program trains line staff in communication, teaming and customer service skills as well as builds confidence in speaking and leadership.
We choose these “STARs” because they have demonstrated the potential to excel and become leaders. They are inspired to share the Front Porch culture of trust, kindness and service excellence.
Meet one of our STARs.
Front Porch is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our employees at all levels of our organization, to empower them with tools to be their best, and to help them realize their own potential so they can successfully and confidently provide our residents with the very best experience possible.
Front Porch Gallery
Our approach to life enrichment.
We believe everyone has a story to share. And stories told through art are not only compelling, but profoundly important to our individual wellbeing. Understanding and connecting with this expression are at the very heart of what we know community to be.
The Front Porch Gallery, located next to Carlsbad By The Sea in the village of Carlsbad, California, is dedicated to strengthening community through art. The gallery houses remarkable artwork from a variety of senior artists and others whose stories come to life through paintings, photography, sculpture, fiber arts, and more. This professional venue helps create an understanding of aging through art, in a place where residents and the greater community can come together, share creative expression, and enjoy the many exhibits held throughout the year.
Social accountability
in action
It’s the Front Porch way.
As a not for profit organization, social accountability is the heart and soul of who we are and why we exist. It drives our culture of engagement, our commitment to cause-based innovation and our Humanly Possible® dedication to doing everything humanly possible to creatively meet needs.
It reflects our purpose and love for service. It motivates us and brings us together.
Most importantly, it makes an impact in the lives we touch through our collective actions—residents, staff, partners, donors. Take a look at our Social Accountability Impact Report here.
Get in touch with us.
If you are interested in partnering with us, working with us, or visiting one of our communities to see if it’s a good fit for you or someone you love, please reach out using the form below, or by calling 1.800.233.3709. We look forward to hearing from you. Learn more about Front Porch.