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. Information on how to access this resource through our website was emailed to each health center CEO. If you have any questions about how to log in through our site to the Tableau Dashboard interface, please contact Mariah Blake. Materials to support health center and PCA workforce teams as they work with the resource can be found in the Data Profile Dashboard Information Center.

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.

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.

All episodes of season two of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast are now available on our site! This season explores how health centers are coping with the immediate and long-term effects COVID-19 has on their workforce and the retention and recruitment barriers that arose during this time of adversity. Access Episodes 6-10 of the podcast as well as full episode transcripts on our site.

The Provider Resilience app was created for healthcare providers treating military personnel to help gauge their levels of compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress and count down to their next vacation. The app helps providers to take steps to improve their overall resilience rating over time while working in fast paced environments.

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 The Using Your Data Profile Dashboard series has been archived and is available for you to revisit on our site.

Revisit our recent webinar, Clinician Perspectives on Racism in the Healthcare Workforce. In this webinar, led by Michael Curry, CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, four panelists discuss their perspectives on racism in medicine, how it shapes provider and patient experiences, and strategies to build a more anti-racist, equitable, and inclusive healthcare system.

In collaboration with Community Health Center Inc./Weitzman Institute, the STAR² Center hosted a webinar series focused on the Special Considerations for the Retention and Recruitment of Mental Health Providers. This series focused on the importance of building a mental health provider pipeline, the development of inclusive workplaces that engage, retain, and recruit mission-driven providers, and the importance of understanding the essential contributions of the mental health workforce to community health centers.

You can now revisit our recent webinar series, Managing in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond. This three-part series focused on managers at health centers and the skills they need to have a positive impact on their workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sessions included:

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.