The STAR² Center is proud to announce the release of our new Pay Equity Checklist. This tool is designed to support health center teams in holistically assessing their compensation practices to ensure they are providing equitable and effective compensation for their workforce.

Session materials are now archived on our site from the STAR² Center's recent webinar discussing the ACE-15 Survey, a tool for assessing the critical qualities that make clinical teams effective. During this webinar, viewers will learn how to get the most out of this short, but useful survey, how to analyze the results, and what exactly they can do with that information to make their health center’s teams stronger and more cohesive.

New episodes are now available in the feed for the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast's third season! This season explores how those in the field are engaging in successful, sustainable, organizationally-supported self-care and the impact that has on retention and recruitment.

Burnout affects individuals working in a wide variety of professions. However, the mission driven aspects of social sector work call for health center teams to get creative when supporting staff. This article by Nonprofit HR, hosted in our Workforce Self-Care Resource Repository, provides creative suggestions to help minimize burnout and encourage self-care in these unique settings.

The STAR² Center team invites workforce staff from PCA and HCCN teams to participate in the upcoming workforce professional development series to bolster workforce efforts internally and to help those teams to provide a robust support system for recruitment and retention at their health centers. Learn more and save your spot for this semi-monthly series today!

Having a documented, comprehensive recruitment plan is vital to recruitment success at a health center. Apply to join us for our seven-part Recruitment Boot Camp 4.0 learning collaborative as we go through each of the steps needed to undertake a successful recruitment campaign and develop a comprehensive workforce plan. Starting with a self-assessment and planning all the way through contracting, this series will provide guidance, tools, and templates for health center participants to update their recruitment processes and lay the groundwork for additional workforce planning. 

As calls to bolster the resilience of the health center workforce grow louder and more frequent, leadership and HR staff must think strategically about how best to deploy their resources and support their staff. Please join the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center in Nashville, TN, from May 2-3, at Going Beyond Buzzwords: Striving for a Thriving Workforce. This two-day workforce symposium will provide attendees with the opportunity to dig deep into a slate of topics related to promoting resilience and transformations in care to effectively support health center teams.

Health center teams are invited to join the STAR² Center team in Nashville, TN, following our symposium, Going Beyond Buzzwords: Striving for a Thriving Workforce, for this two-day interactive training to jump-start your health center’s creation or improvement of a Retention & Recruitment Plan. Each day of the training will be dedicated to the topics of one half of a complete R&R plan, equipping health center staff with the skills and knowledge needed to create or revamp their health centers’ Plan. Being able to achieve these results will help ensure a health center’s long-term sustainability, improve business operations, and increase the ability to continue offering mission-driven, patient-centered healthcare for all.

Join an interactive training opportunity with an element of competition! The SDOH Academy invites you to the 2022 SDOH Academy Innovations Showcase Competition: Helping Health Centers Build Healthier Communities. Utilize this unique opportunity to access three micro-training modules on SDOH and Healthy People 2030 goals and submit an abstract of how your Health Center innovative SDOH interventions have been successful.

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 National Training and Technical Assistance Partners. Topics include finance, operations, workforce, quality improvement, capital development, HIT/data, governance and emerging issues.