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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...

Resiliency Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide for Health Centers & Their Staff (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In the face of unprecedented turnover, burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress and injury, it is important to remember that there are paths forward for organizations and their leaders. While self-care remains important, it is imperative that organizations create supportive environments with trauma-informed management to help their staff be able to care for themselves in the best way possible. By focusing on resiliency and wellbeing, organizations can set goals to guide their strategic initiatives to increase these in their workforces. 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...

Human Resources (HR) Issue Brief: Employee Freedoms in the Health Center Workplace (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This Issue Brief examines employee freedoms in the health center workplace. It summarizes the relevant legal issues that must be considered when establishing policies relating to employee freedoms in the workplace. More Details...

Using Health IT and EHRs to Address the Burden Providers Experience: Takeaways for primary care safety net settings including federally qualified health centers and look-alikes. June 2022. (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Providers are burnt out and most expect it to get worse. Burnout is typically defined as a psychological response to job stressors characterized by emotional exhaustion, detachment, and a sense of ineffectiveness. Investigations of burnout in primary care have usually focused on factors associated with burnout among individual clinicians. But, it may be more useful to think about organizational-level burnout, which can shift the focus from individual responsibility to organizational solutions. More Details...

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Health Center Workforce: Challenges and Solutions (2022). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Despite increasing demand for health care services, health centers indicate a critical shortage of staff necessary to meet that demand. Burnout, stress, depression, etc. have eroded our healthy workforce. This Facebook Live session discussed workforce challenges and how to navigate these challenges to advance well-being. 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...

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...

Five Strategies to Help Health Centers Protect Against Staff Burnout (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: NCFH created this visual resource to assist health centers in their efforts to enable and support a resilient workforce. 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...

NNOHA Community Health Center Workforce Survey: Analysis of 2021 Results (2022). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication summarizes the findings of the NNOHA 2021 Workforce Survey. The purpose of the survey was to provide information and analysis on dental team member salaries, satisfaction, and recruitment and retention strategies in health centers throughout the country. More Details...