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NTTAP Webinar: Health Professions Student Training (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar discussed best practices for health centers to train the next generation as they welcome students back to their clinics. This webinar addressed student training for RN students, how your organization can support capstone projects, and academic partnerships to bolster these efforts. 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...

Developing a Postdoctoral Psychology Residency Program in Your Community Health Center (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Two years later, we continue to witness the pandemic’s toll on mental health – and a sustained increased demand for mental health services. Behavioral health care providers who are experienced in integrated care settings are needed now more than ever. Join this webinar to learn how your health center can establish its own postdoctoral clinical psychology residency program. This webinar will address considerations such as program structure, design, curriculum, the supervisor’s role, required resources, and the benefits of sponsoring an in-house formal postdoctoral clinical psychology residency training program. More Details...

Creating an Organizational Culture of Resilience to Manage Stress and Burnout in Health Center Teams (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Studies show that in an integrated, team-based environment, just one burned-out staff member can disrupt team dynamics. But even in times of high stress, health center staff are more likely to be engaged and satisfied with their jobs if given the tools they need to succeed, in an organization that fosters resiliency. More Details...

The ACE-15 Survey Tool: Measuring “Teamness” In Your Organization (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar was produced on February 24, 2022, by the STAR² Center team and Katherine Brieger from Sun River Health. It features a discussion of the ACE-15 Survey, a tool for assessing the critical qualities that make clinical teams effective. More Details...

Pay Equity Checklist (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This checklist will help health centers to look holistically at their compensation practices and ensure that they are recognizing the quality of the work of their employees rather than other factors that have historically kept marginalized groups from advancement. More Details...

Finding a Way Forward: Retaining & Recruiting Medical Assistants and Dental Assistants in the Changing Workforce Landscape: Webinar Series (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center invites you to review this two-part webinar series on the retention and recruitment of medical assistants (MAs) and dental assistants (DAs). In response to the challenges health centers are currently facing when it comes to retaining and recruiting MAs and DAs, the STAR² Center partnered with The National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA) and National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA) to bring you experts in the field who shared strategies and promising practices to better develop your MA and DA workforce. More Details...

Community Health Center: DiSC Case Study for Team Development: Lowell Community Health Center in Lowell, Massachusetts (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: A key focus for Lowell Community Health Center and health centers across the nation\'s future is health system transformation. To meet this critical moment in our history, Lowell CHC needed to first focus internally and reorient the ways in which staff interact with one another. This included improving the types of interactions and the frequency by which they communicate across departments to foster their truth of inclusivity and health equity. More Details...

STAR² Center 2021-2022 PCA & HCCN Workforce Professional Development Series: Webinar Series Archive (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The STAR² Center team invites workforce staff from PCA and HCCN teams to revisit sessions in this iteration of the workforce professional development series. Faculty and guest speakers in the series share their expertise in all things workforce from the national, regional, and state levels with the learning cohort. More Details...

Building the Case for Implementing Postgraduate NP Residency and NP/PA Training Programs (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join us as we discuss the the drivers and processes of implementing a postgraduate nurse practitioner residency program at your health center, the benefits of implementing a postgraduate residency program, and the residency tracks for Family, Psychiatric/Mental Health, Pediatric, and Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioners. We are joined by Charise Corsino, Program Director of the Nurse Practitioner Residency Program, and Nicole Seagriff, Clinical Program Director of the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Residency Program, from the Community Health Center Inc. More Details...

Primary Care Association (PCA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Core Competencies (2021). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This document outlines 12 domains, related tasks, and behavioral examples for Core Competencies for the Primary Care Association CEO. These domains and related tasks and examples were identified and vetted through a National Advisory Panel made up of key staff who would have interaction with the PCA-CEO position in various settings. More Details...

STAR² Center – Definition of a Comprehensive Workforce Plan (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This document provides a definition of a comprehensive workforce plan that has been reviewed and approved by the Bureau of Primary Health Care. The robust definition is followed by the essential components that health centers can use as part of their ongoing workforce planning issues. More Details...

Building Back Better: Utilizing Lessons Learned During COVID-19 for Inclusivity and Retention (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Join the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center and experts from Ainey Volion Consulting for a webinar series on inclusivity in the workplace for people with physical disabilities, people that are d/Deaf, blind, and visually impaired, and neurodiverse people. According to Fortune, this autumn, 65 percent of employees are seeking new jobs, up from 36 percent in May. These workers are requiring equitable compensation, flexible work environments, and inclusive cultures – making justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion more critical every day. This webinar series provides participants with information and tools to use for increased inclusivity. Taking the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, folks will be able to work toward building a culture of belonging for everyone, with a focus on individuals with disabilities and neurodiverse people. More Details...

Self-Care is Quality Care: Resiliency for Mental Health Providers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Knowledge is the best defense against burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue. This webinar, brought to you by the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center, is led by expert trainer on trauma-informed care, Matt Bennett, and goes further than other self-care trainings by addressing the critical elements of health to enhance productivity and quality of work on both an individual and organizational level. More Details...

Workforce Self-Care Resource Repository (2021). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This resource repository is meant to serve as a starting point for organizations to grow their support of self-care of their workforce and an ever-growing clearinghouse of resources for individuals to engage in self-care. More Details...

Behavioral Health Self-Help Handouts in Spanish and English: The Witness to Witness (W2W) Program resources (2021). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: These Behavioral Health Self-Help handouts available in Spanish and English. Topics include: Questions for Staff to Address Current Organizational Tensions, Position of the Facilitator, Healthy Sleep Tips, Coping with Moral Distress, How to Re-establish Safety When You Have been Jolted into a Stress Response, and A Daily Practice to Restore Equanimity. More Details...

OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard:: Clinical, Operational, and Compliance Impact for Health Centers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Please join NACHC and Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell, LLP (FTLF) for an overview of the ETS and a discussion on COVID-19 safety precautions that recognize workforce fatigue. NACHC will provide insight on finding the appropriate balance between regulatory requirements and workforce capacity. More Details...

Special Considerations for the Retention and Recruitment of Mental Health Providers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: In this webinar series, presenters speak to the importance of building a mental health provider pipeline, the development of inclusive workplaces that engage, retain, and recruit mission-driven providers, and the importance of understanding the essential contributions of the mental health workforce to community health centers. More Details...

Managing in the Time of COVID-19 & Beyond Webinar Series (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This three-part series focused on managers at health centers and the skills they need to have a positive impact on their workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sessions included: Increasing Employee Engagement at Your CHC; Adapting Procedures and Workflows for COVID Resilience; Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion: Managing for a New Culture More Details...

Using Your Data Profile Dashboard Webinar Series (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This archived webinar series supports the 2020-2021 project year launch of the Data Profile Dashboards. More Details...