Welcome to the Team!

ACU is thrilled to welcome our newest member of the team, Sabrina Edgington, Director of Learning and Curriculum Design!  Sabrina joins our team after over a decade in the health center field through her role at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) and as peer learning facilitator at Integrated Work. Most recently, she served as Director of Impact at Hands On Nashville, whose mission is to strengthen the capacity of local nonprofits through service and volunteerism. We are so excited to grow our team and hope you will help us to welcome Sabrina aboard!

New Online Courses!

The STAR² Center now has 10 online courses in our catalog! We designed these courses with your busy schedule in mind, so each course takes roughly 30 minutes to complete, can be paused or restarted if you need to step away, and build upon topics covered in other STAR² Center Resources available on our website. Be sure to use this "how to" document to enroll in the interactive courses such as: Using Human Resource Metrics, Developing an Effective Employee Engagement Plan, Building the Recruitment Team, and Budgeting for Recruitment.

Let's Collaborate

Like many of our colleagues, the STAR² Center team is busily preparing for our upcoming HRSA cooperative agreement application. We know NCA and PCA teams are working hard to submit the best application possible and we want to help! If you would like to discuss activities to support our partnership in the health center workforce space, please contact us and we can set up a time to discuss our future collaboration!

Health Center Resource Clearinghouse

The Health Center Resource Clearinghouse is designed as a one-stop online repository of training and technical assistance resources developed for health centers by the 20 NCAs. Topics include finance, operations, workforce, quality improvement, capital development, HIT/data, governance and emerging issues. Click here to take a look!

A robust and diverse workforce that includes engaged clinical and technical professionals is essential to realize the full potential of information and technology to transform health. Learn more with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Podcasts for Healthcare IT Leaders: Workforce Development. 

STAR² Center PCA HCCN Series

The STAR² Center is bringing back this dynamic series and invites workforce staff from PCAs and HCCNs to join us monthly between December 2019 and May 2020 for five web-based hour-long sessions and one in-person meeting. Through this series, the STAR ² Center team aims to bolster workforce efforts internally at PCAs and HCCNs, and to help those teams to provide a robust support system for recruitment and retention at their health centers. More information and a registration link will be available shortly!