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The Evolving Role of Nurse Practitioners in Health Centers and Considerations for Provider Satisfaction (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication discusses the evolving role of nurse practitioners and reccomendations to improve job satisfaction and prevent burnout among nurse practitioners. More Details...

Addressing the Needs of Nurses of Color: COVID-19 and the Fight for Health Equity (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar examines the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on front-line nurses of color and the critical need to support the healthcare workforce now and long term. This webinar is part of NNCC's Nurse-Led Forum for Vaccine Confidence series. More Details...

Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data (Fall 2020) (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar, Chris Grasso, Vice President for Health Informatics and Data Services and Mason Dunn, Deputy Director for the Division of Education and Training at Fenway Health, discuss best practices for health centers to collect patient Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data and document SOGI in electronic health records. The training will focus on analyzing and using SOGI data for clinical decision-making and monitoring health disparities, and if, when, and how the collection and analysis of employee SOGI data can inform practices in HR, including policies for hiring, onboarding and retention. More Details...

Provider Health IT Experience Survey: Health Center Connections HCCN (2021). Resource Type: Template. Description: Health Center Connections, the HCCN organized and supported by the Community Care Network of Kansas, created this survey to ask clinicians at participating health centers about their work environment, productivity, health IT in use, and health IT interventions. The intent of the survey is to collect information from clinicians that can identify opportunities to reduce provider burden through the use of health IT. More Details...

Manager Training Toolkit (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The purpose of the Manager Training Toolkit is to provide a training and development resource for managers at health centers to equip them with skills and tools to lead their teams, increase engagement and reduce turnover. More Details...

Growing Our Own: Cultivating the Next Generation of Primary Care Physicians in Community Health Centers (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: It is critical to advance policies and programs that help community health centers (CHCs) become Educational Health Centers (EHCs)2 and “grow their own” primary care training opportunities. This paper explores several pathways for promoting CHCs as teaching environments - enhanced partnerships between Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and CHCs (with either the AMC or the CHC as the sponsoring institution3), and CHCs participating in HRSA Teaching Health Center (THC) funding opportunities (with sponsorship either by the CHC alone or by a consortium body) - and posits a spectrum of options and costs associated with each of these pathways to train medical residents. More Details...

Laying the Foundation for Lawyers on the Health Center Team Part III: Advancing workforce goals for health center and legal services staff (2021). Resource Type: In-Person Training. Description: The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership is launching a 5-part Webinar Series to disseminate the Health Center Guide toolkit that provides the health center community with information and resources to start, strengthen, and sustain a medical-legal partnership. The toolkit will help health centers to 1) have the important conversations to plan for a MLP’s long term success; 2) understand the specifics on developing screening, referral, and service delivery workflows for a MLP; 3) to look at how integrating legal services can support health center workforce development; and 4) move upstream to address social determinants of health and health equity at a policy level. More Details...

Increasing Staff Capacity to Respond to Intimate Partner Violence/Human Trafficking During COVID-19 (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar offers a combination of self-care and organizational practice strategies to help prevent provider burn out and bolster staff readiness for implementing CUES, as well as trauma-informed and healing-centered practices. More Details...

Vaccine Ambassador Program and Job Description (2021). Resource Type: Template. Description: As communities embark on COVID-19 vaccine campaigns, they are confronting a long history of discrimination and negative interactions with medical services experienced by racial and ethnic minority groups and people experiencing homelessness (PEH), which can contribute to mistrust and vaccine hesitancy. To build vaccine confidence, communities should consider hiring Vaccine Ambassadors to engage PEH and homeless service providers by facilitating two-way communication and disseminating accurate vaccine information. This document describes how. More Details...

Recruiting, Training, and Retaining LGBTQIA-Proficient Clinical Providers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Fenway Institute highlights resources and best practices that strengthen a CHC’s ability to recruit, train, and retain LGBTQI+-Proficient Clinical Providers and workforce staff. More Details...

Leveraging Data to Develop Workforce Strategic Plans (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The STAR² Center describes health center recruitment and retention data profile dashboards created for each health center organization. A California community health center also shares how they leveraged the data profiles to enhance their recruitment and retention efforts and build a strategic workforce plan. More Details...

Memorandum of Understanding Template: A Partnership-Building Resource for Community Health Centers and Domestic Violence Programs (2021). Resource Type: Template. Description: The purpose of this model Memorandum of Understanding is to provide a model that contains best practices for building and sustaining health center and domestic violence program partnerships. More Details...

Turnover Tool Webinar Series (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center experiencing high turnover? Are you trying to make the case for stronger workforce retention efforts within your organization? Are you struggling to figure out what is contributing to turnover at your organization? If you answered yes to one or all of these questions, then you will want to join ACU’s webinar series focusing on health center workforce turnover.  More Details...

Turnover Calculator Tool (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Health centers can access this tool on a rolling basis, completing their turnover information from the year prior. Once adequate information has been collected, ACU will be able to aggregate the data on a state, regional and national basis, which can be shared to assist health centers in benchmarking their own data. By completing the tool, health centers will also be able to calculate the total cost of turnover at their organization as well as receive recommendations for mitigating turnover. More Details...

Engaging High-Functioning Managers for Retention (2020). Resource Type: Online Self-Paced Learning Modules. Description: In this course you will learn about the fundamental role high-functioning managers play in your health center's retention efforts. High-Functioning Managers is one of the STAR² Center's Core Components for a robust health center workforce. This core component will serve as the driving force for the content presented in this course. More Details...

Creating a Compensation Package for Retention (2020). Resource Type: Online Self-Paced Learning Modules. Description: In this course you will learn how to create a robust compensation package to use as a retention tool in your health center. We'll highlight the key concepts of compensation and benefits, the importance of developing an effective communication plan to promote your compensation package, the role Board of Directors play in your health center’s compensation plan, and tools and resources you can use to assess and strengthen your compensation programs. More Details...

Building an Inclusive Organization Toolkit (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The Building an Inclusive Organization Toolkit provides information and resources to support health centers in their journeys to achieving a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. It’s content addresses common questions related to workplace assessment, strategies to take, and accountability. The toolkit was developed by the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved's STAR² Center, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, and the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations. More Details...

NNOHA Operations Manual: Workforce Chapter V2 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This chapter provides helpful tools and resources for tackling the issues related to workforce in Health Center oral health programs. Topics include recruitment and retention of dental team members, staffing ratios, and strategies to decrease burnout. More Details...

Workforce/Human Resources Frequently Asked Questions and Checklist COVID-19 Resource Packet (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: n.a. More Details...

Human Resources Office Hours - Leading During a Crisis HR Leaders Responding to COVID-19 (Webinar) (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: n.a. More Details...