Updates from the STAR² Center
May 5, 2020

Physicians and other providers are particularly vulnerable to negative mental health effects and increased suicide risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, likely due to balancing the duty of caring for their patients and the concern for their own health and wellbeing and that of their friends and family.

This training will provide specific tactics to help support your primary care providers and team members through systematic and organizational approaches to address suicide risk and prevent deaths by suicide among employees. Learn how to create a response plan that can be applied during the COVID-19 pandemic to help your organization reduce the risk for suicide across your providers and team members.


HRSA staff contributed to this new resource from the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). It provides links to tools and resource collections relating to federal regulatory and funding flexibilities, licensure and scope of practice expansions, liability protections, workforce resilience and protection, and COVID-19-related training resources.
NHSC

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) has extended its open application for three loan repayment programs: the NHSC Loan Repayment Program, the NHSC Substance Use Disorder Workforce Loan Repayment Program and the
NHSC Rural Community Loan Repayment Program. 

The NHSC SUD Workforce Loan Repayment Program (LRP) and NHSC Rural Community LRP are specifically for qualified health care clinicians providing substance use disorder (SUD) treatment at NHSC-approved SUD treatment sites. HPSA scores are not a primary decision factor for these two loan repayment programs. Eligible clinicians providing SUD treatment are strongly encouraged to apply, regardless of their site's HPSA score. 

If you qualify, you may receive up to $100,000 in student loan repayment in return for your service, depending on the program. Find out which program is right for you. The application cycle has been extended! It is now open until Thursday, May 21, 7:30 p.m. ET

This webinar will be hosted on May 8 from 1:00-2:30pm ET by the National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network, which is funded by SAMHSA. The session will provide information on practical tools to increase the knowledge of mental health service providers about the implications of vicarious trauma on mental health and how to prevent it. The presenter will discuss the dimensions of vicarious trauma, the concepts of compassion fatigue and burning syndrome, the neurobiology of accompaniment in mental health professionals, individual responses and their implications at the organizational level, the post-natural events experience, strategies to face the effects of vicarious trauma.

The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health is conducting a web-based survey of  health care workers who have been exposed to or infected by the COVID-19 virus .
They are conducting this survey in order to
  • Identify and gather basic information about COVID-19 exposures and infections among healthcare workers, including health care support staff.
  • Gather information on situations, practices and policies that increase the risk of exposure and infection among health care workers.
  • Highlight opportunities to improve worker health and safety and infection control in health care settings.
If you are a healthcare worker who has been exposed to or infected by the COVID-19, or a family member of one who cannot respond, you are invited to complete the survey.
Today with Macrae

Tuesday, May 19
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Save the date for these future calls:
Join the webinar the day of the session*
Call-in: 800-369-1724
Passcode: 3620392
*NOTE: This link will be accessible only to the first 1,500 participants. If you cannot log in for the visual portion, please still call in!
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!
ACU Coronavirus Resources

The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved continues to compile a list of key resources to support teams addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. This list will continue to grow to include ACU webinar recordings, guidance and resources for care, and opportunities to let us know how we can best support your teams. Click here to review this growing list.
STAR² Center Turnover Tool Webinar Series

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 this three part STAR² Center webinar series focusing on health center workforce turnover. 
This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $448,662.00 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov