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Compensation Equity for the Mental Health Workforce (2023). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar was hosted by the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center team on February 28, 2023. More Details...

STAR² Center Financial Assessment for Provider Turnover Tool (2023). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The purpose of this Financial Assessment for Provider Turnover Tool (previously released as the Financial Impact Tool) is to assist you in realizing the actual costs of provider turnover. These costs can include direct costs, such as advertising and recruiting services, but also indirect costs, such as staff time dedicated to finding locum tenens (temporary) and permanent providers. Wherever separate data are available for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians, they are parsed into separate tabs for “Non-Physician Providers” or “Physicians”. More Details...

Organizational Leadership and Resiliency Toolkit (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The Organizational Leadership and Resiliency Toolkit was ACU STAR² Center produced collaboratively with the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and subject matter experts April Lewis and Matt Bennett. More Details...

Trauma-Informed Leadership (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the ACU STAR² Center as expert presenter, Cindy Manginelli of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, guides the audience through an introduction to trauma-informed leadership. More Details...

Introducing the Organizational Leadership and Resiliency Toolkit (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the ACU STAR² Center and the National Health Care for the Homeless Council for a webinar introducing our upcoming Organizational Leadership and Resiliency Toolkit. More Details...

Retention & Recruitment of Specific Populations Webinar Series – Session 2 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the ACU STAR² Center for the second session in this two-part series focused on the retention and recruitment of specific workforce populations that highlight experts from the field to help give viewers the tools to start the work or continue in the process of building a more inclusionary and welcoming organization. More Details...

Retention & Recruitment of Specific Populations Webinar Series – Session 1 (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the ACU STAR² Center for the first session in the two-part series focused on the retention and recruitment of specific workforce populations that highlight experts from the field to help give viewers the tools to start the work or continue in the process of building a more inclusionary and welcoming organization. More Details...

ACU STAR² Center – Health Center Comprehensive Workforce Plan (2022). Resource Type: Template. Description: The HC Comprehensive Workforce Plan (CWP) (previously released in 2016 as the Retention & Recruitment Plan Template) includes an instructions guide, a template, and an action plan. More Details...

Perspectives from the Field: Retaining Medical Assistants and Dental Assistants (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication was prepared by Ann Loeffler, MSPH, PMP, for the ACU STAR² Center following a series of focus groups exploring Medical Assistant and Dental Assistant attrition in health centers. More Details...

Communicating Across Generations: Managing generational conflict in the workplace (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Many workplaces have staff representing three, four, or even five different generations working together. But do generational differences lead to conflicts amongst staff? How should we communicate across generations? More Details...

ACU Workforce Self-Assessment Tool (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This self-assessment tool (updated in 2022) has been designed to assist your health center in exploring your organization’s strengths and challenges in your workforce program. More Details...

The Emotional Toll of Caring for Others: A Factsheet on Supporting Staff Mental Health Through Compensation Equity and Inclusive Benefits (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: One of the most crucial roles health center leadership plays is taking care of the wellbeing and mental health of all staff, including their own. While mental health challenges among the healthcare workforce is not a new phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic and other societal and traumatic events only served to further exacerbate the problem. More Details...

Best Practices for Adapting to the Remote and Hybrid Workforce in Team-Based Care (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Telehealth and remote work are going to continue to be a “way of life” even after the continuing COVID-19 pandemic is over. This less traditional setting allows health center leadership to be creative in recruiting and retaining staff to meet their organization’s needs. These new settings also require new approaches to supporting staff engagement. More Details...

Workforce Planning Resource Repository (2022). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This resource repository is meant to serve as a starting point for health centers when developing a workforce plan to support their future development and growth. More Details...

Advancing Health Center Retention & Recruitment through HP-ET – Salud Family Health (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join ACU’s STAR² Center for “Advancing Health Center Retention & Recruitment through HP-ET,” the final installment of our three-webinar series on building HP-ET programs at health centers. This webinar is a one-hour discussion on the challenges, solutions, and benefits of building an HP-ET program at your health center. More Details...

Self-Care for the Health Center Workforce (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication aims to be a starting point for health center leadership and staff needing to better understand different techniques, tools, and practices for self-care and a guide to create systemic changes to support them. More Details...

Advancing Health Center Retention & Recruitment through HP-ET (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HPET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Then join ACU’s STAR² Center on for “Advancing Health Center Retention & Recruitment through HP-ET,” Part Two of our three-webinar series on building HPET programs at health centers. Hear from NEW Health, a community health center located in rural northeast Washington State, serving rural and frontier communities who, as a result of implementing a strategic workforce initiative, has more qualified applicants than they can hire! More Details...

Health Center Partnerships for HPET Development (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HPET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Then join ACU’s STAR² Center for “Health Center Partnerships for Pathway Development,” part of our webinar series on building HPET programs at health centers. More Details...

Strategies to Provide Productive Feedback to Your Employees (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Part of being a manager is developing and coaching your team members. To be effective in your role proper communication is critical. Providing feedback is the process of communicating a reaction to your employees performance or behavior. During this webinar, presented on May 26, 2022, people expert, April Lewis, will provide strategies for managers to give positive and productive feedback to their team members. More Details...

Health Center Leadership’s Role in Team Building and Stress Management for a Resilient Workforce (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: As health center teams grapple with ongoing and overlapping stressors contributing to burnout at the individual level, leaders must provide the structural support to build resilient teams and take a top-down approach to stress management, relieving the burden of action on individual staff to engage in self-care. More Details...