The STAR² Center team released updated individual health center Data Profile Dashboards for the 2020-2021 project year during the week of June 28, 2021. Each health center CEO received an email containing information on how to access their health center's individual dashboard. Please contact Mariah Blake to resend that information or to ask any questions about the resource.

PCA teams have the opportunity to access Data Profile Dashboards and State Aggregate Reports from health centers in their state. Interested PCA staff should contact Mariah Blake to complete an updated Data Use Agreement to access the updated resource.

In today’s rapidly changing workplace environment, health centers need to be at the forefront of developing solutions that meet the ever evolving needs of their workforce. We welcome you to join us and listen to our podcast, STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success, as we bring you engaging and informative chats with health center leaders and workforce experts from around the nation.

Episodes 1 through 5 address the fundamental role a Chief Workforce Officer plays in the strategic advancement of a health center's workforce initiatives and emphasizes why this position should be part of a health center's c-suite.

Episodes 6 through 10 bring you stories from the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, as health center leaders speak about the struggles and triumphs of offering mission-driven, equitable healthcare for all during a pandemic. 

The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved's (ACU) STAR² Center and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) recently released a paper focusing on burnout prevention and workplace satisfaction for Nurse practitioners (NP). The paper is the result of focus groups ACU and NNCC conducted with NPs and health center administrators to better understand the expanding and evolving role of NPs at health centers, the drivers of burnout, and factors that contribute to provider satisfaction.

Health Outreach Partners has released a new resource to support organizational self-case practices. The resource, Organizational Self-Care: Addressing the Collective Responsibility for Your Employees’ Wellbeing, is designed to guide leadership and staff to foster a work environment that supports staff satisfaction and retention.

Join us at ACU's Conference, "Mission: Health Equity," occurring in-person in Washington, D.C.'s Mandarin Oriental Hotel and virtually on Oct. 31-Nov. 2! Celebrating 25 years of ACU, the symposium will explore strategies to eliminate health disparities by addressing systemic practices contributing to poor health in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, LGBTQIA, and other minority and intersectional groups. The CME-accredited event will offer informative trainings for clinicians, administrators, and advocates alike, in addition to exciting keynote addresses and an in-person 25th Anniversary Reception & Award Ceremony. 

Register by Sept. 30 to take advantage of Early Bird rates! ACU Members enjoy a significant discount.

With the fall conference and training season right around the corner, consider bringing the STAR² Center to your area. We are now finalizing our training schedule and our training team is looking forward to leading presentations in-person or virtually at PCA conferences across the country. Please contact our team to bring our workforce expertise to your conference participants!

To support the release of the 2020-2021 Data Profile Dashboards, the STAR² Center recently hosted a webinar series providing an overview of the annually updated resource, highlighting changes in the data included in this year’s iteration, and walking through how to navigate the interactive dashboards to make the most of the data they contain. The Using Your Data Profile Dashboard series has been archived and is available for you to revisit on our site.

The STAR² Center team offers FREE technical assistance to health centers on their workforce needs. Where questions arise in reviewing the Data Profile Dashboards, completing our comprehensive Retention and Recruitment Plan Template, planning for employee engagement, or something else, our team of experts is here to help. The STAR² Center is available to offer phone or web-based assistance free of charge to health center staff.

Revisit the 2021 All Virtual Workforce Summit, hosted as a a joint effort of workforce-focused HRSA National Training and Technical Assistance Partners: Association of Clinicians for the Underserved’s STAR² Center, Community Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute, and the National Association of Community Health Centers. We were honored to have so many members of our network in attendance for the live event on May 26-27, 2021 and are excited to keep those conversations going by making this archive available to freely revisit.

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.