This year marked an important stage in the evolution of CCEP, highlighted by continued expansion of both Caritas Coaches and Caritas Faculty. These additions further strengthened the infrastructure needed to sustain Caring Science across diverse care environments. Through the 2025 cohorts, KP NCAL welcomed 93 new Caritas Coaches and 25 Caritas Faculty, reinforcing a scalable, faculty-supported model designed to embed intentional caring into daily practice, leadership, and organizational culture.

Partnership remained central to this work. In collaboration with Kaiser Permanente Southern California Nursing, KP NCAL partnered with nurses and nurse leaders across KP regions to expand the reach and impact of Caring Science. This shared effort reflects a collective commitment to advancing human-centered leadership and cultivating environments where both caregivers and patients can flourish.

The 2025 cohorts also demonstrated the growing interdisciplinary and cross-continuum reach of Caring Science. In addition to inpatient nursing, Caritas Coaches represented home health and hospice, emergency departments, ambulatory care, and care experience teams. This broad participation highlights Caring Science as a unifying professional framework—one that transcends setting, role, and discipline to support consistent, compassionate care across the full continuum.

Leadership engagement continued to be a defining strength of the program. Among the 2025 graduates was Cherie Stagg, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nurse Executive at Vacaville, who completed KP CCEP Cohort 3 and now serves as a Caritas Coach. The December cohort also celebrated Careen Campbell, MSN-Ed., RN, RNC-OB, Senior Director of Professional Practice and Magnet leader in Southern California, as both a distinguished graduate and keynote speaker. Her participation and reflections underscored the strong alignment between Caring Science, Magnet principles, and transformational nursing leadership across regions.

Beyond internal partnerships, KP NCAL continued to serve as a regional steward for Caring Science through its leadership of the California Caritas Consortium. In this role, KP NCAL helped convene healthcare organizations, academic partners, and Caring Science leaders statewide, strengthening alignment and accelerating the spread of intentional caring practices across California and the broader West Coast. This collaborative model fosters shared learning, consistency in Caritas-based leadership development, and collective advancement of Caring Science across varied healthcare settings.

Through continued growth, regional collaboration, and an expanding scope, the KP Caritas Coach Education Program remains a powerful engine for embedding Caring Science into practice and leadership. The 2025 graduations represent not only individual achievement, but also the strengthening of a regional and national Caring Science community dedicated to equity, connection, and human flourishing.