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Addressing Stigma, Health Disparities, and COVID-19’s Role in Affecting Workforce Retention (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar was hosted on August 26, 2020, and focused on the intersection of health disparities, COVID-19, and stigma. Stigma plays a pivotal role in the health disparities and inequities faced by the patients and communities that health centers serve. In fact, stigma is not just proximal to negative health outcomes, but one of its root causes. Adding to this, is COVID-19’s role in amplifying the problem. Proper support, training, and resources are necessary tools to help the health center workforce navigate this complex landscape, support retention, and avoid disengagement. 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 Development and Retention of Community Health Workers Project (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: There are many benefits to recruiting, hiring, and on-boarding a well-qualified individual for a Community Health Worker position. This report details the experience of Health Centers that have gone through the CHW hiring and recruiting process. It also provides insight on how CHWs have contributed to positive outcomes and success within Health Centers and patients. More Details...

Manager Training for Employee Engagement - Part 2 (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session was hosted on June 30, 2020 as the second session in this two part series. During this session, April Lewis of Good Connection, Inc. took the audience for a deep dive into the importance of employee engagement efforts and provided insight on how managers can engage their teams. More Details...

Engaging High-Functioning Managers for Retention (2020). Resource Type: E-Learning. 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: E-Learning. 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...

Creating a Plan to Address Provider Satisfaction with Health IT: Intervention Project Planning Template, June 2020 (2020). Resource Type: Template. Description: Provider satisfaction is of critical importance for health centers to promote safety and workforce stability. Organizations may be working to reduce burden or increase satisfaction of the provider workforce. This worksheet, created by HITEQ, assists organizations in operationalizing the information set forth in HITEQ’s Assessing Provider Satisfaction: Designing health IT interventions to improve satisfaction and reduce burden. Review that piece, and then download the project planning template to create a plan of your own. More Details...

Manager Training for Employee Engagement - Part 1 (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This session was hosted on June 23, 2020 as the first session in this two part series. During this session, April Lewis of Good Connection, Inc. provided an overview of the STAR² Center Manager Training Toolkit and introduced attendees to the "why" behind the toolkit and manager training in health center settings.  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...

Building Resilience in the Midst of a Pandemic: What Health Care Workers and Leaders Can Do During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: A lot of energy has been devoted to the critical need for PPE, the lack of respirators, tests, and the pressure on health centers to help “flatten the curve.” This crisis has left little time to address the impact of workplace and personal stressors on providers and other staff as they try to balance the fear of contracting the virus while carrying a heavy, complex workload. This webinar provided tips and recommendations for leadership, health center staff working at clinical sites on how to create a healthy environment and cope with anxiety, depression and other behavioral disorders caused by COVID-19. More Details...

Assessing Provider Satisfaction: And how to design health IT interventions to improve satisfaction and reduce burden, January 2020 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This resource puts forth several options for assessing provider satisfaction or burden, with a focus on health IT. Each provider assessment also includes information about cost and access. In addition to surveying providers, there is other information that can be assessed for baseline when planning an intervention to decrease burden. These can be used for pre– and post-intervention monitoring and evaluation. Finally, related research findings, including the overall relationship between EHR and provider satisfaction, regulatory and documentation requirements, the impact of training, provider autonomy and role in EHR design, and in-basket management, are described. More Details...

Developing an Effective Employee Engagement Plan (2019). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: In this course we will walk through the benefits of and process for the development and implementation of an effective Employee Engagement Plan. More Details...

STAR² Talks Compensation Planning (2019). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Are you looking to update your current compensation plan but just don’t know where to begin? Review this webinar series hosted by ACU’s STAR² Center!  This series took a look at all things compensation including the finances of provider recruitment and retention, internal engagement about compensation plans, developing a compensation plan, provider incentive plans, rolling out your compensation plan and how to stay involved in the conversation about compensation.  More Details...

Recruiting, Training, and Retaining LGBTQ-Proficient Clinical Providers: A Workforce Development Toolkit (2019). Resource Type: Publication. Description: As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people increasingly access care at health centers, the clinical workforce needs to be prepared to meet the unique health needs of LGBTQ patients. Finding LGBTQ-proficient providers, however, can present a challenge, especially outside major metropolitan areas.In this toolkit, we provide tips and strategies for: 1)Recruiting providers who are either already proficient in LGBTQ health care, or who demonstrate an interest in, and capacity for proficiency in LGBTQ health care; 2) Developing the knowledge and skills of providers to care for LGBTQ patients through training and other professional development opportunities, and; 3)Implementing changes to workplace culture, policies, and processes in order to retain LGBTQ-proficient providers. More Details...

Effective Onboarding Strategies (2018). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This is a course about the important topic of onboarding. You'll learn the differences between orientation and onboarding, why onboarding is a vital part of retaining your employees and even gain ideas about implementing your own onboarding program. More Details...

Administrative Strategies for Increasing Retention (2018). Resource Type: E-Learning. Description: This course focuses on steps you can take to increase retention at your health center. There are many things you can do to increase retention at your health center. While there is not a "one size fits all" recipe to increase retention, it is important to look at all aspects of retention. More Details...

Recruitment & Retention Case Studies: Stories from the Field (2018). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This report is the result of interviews conducted in March 2017 with staff at five health centers around the country who have dealt with a variety of specific challenges in their recruitment and retention efforts. Documenting the challenges faced by these health centers the report, details the interventions that have been employed to address them, and the processes and resources that were helpful in implementing these interventions. Each interviewee stressed that their “best practices” are a work in progress and that they are constantly looking to improve. More Details...

Resource Center (2017). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Over 250 resources on workforce sortable by topic and/or content type More Details...

2017 Compensation Strategy Webinar Series (2017). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This four-part webinar series was hosted in 2017 by the STAR² Center with presenter Ed Ura of Merces consulting. More Details...