The COVID-19 pandemic prompted the increased and widespread use of virtual health services, including telehealth, in health centers. Our new paper reviews the impacts this shift has had on clinician engagement and provides tips for health center teams to improve engagement with increased use of virtual services in the context of the global pandemic.

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.

A new checklist is available from Relias to help you help your team to practice self-care. This five part checklist guides supervisors through helpful steps to make self-care a priority for their teams in order to combat burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma.

Join the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center and Community Health Center Inc./Weitzman Institute on 6/7, 6/16, and 6/30 for a webinar series focused on the Special Considerations for the Retention and Recruitment of Mental Health Providers. In this webinar series, presenters will speak to 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.

Revisit our recent webinar series, Building an Inclusive Organization. Session materials are now archived for teams to revisit to help develop more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforces and adopt antiracist practices. Sessions include:

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.

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.