Revisit this webinar recently hosted by the STAR² Center, as expert trainers, April Lewis and Matt Bennett, explore the role health center leadership plays in building their teams and supporting stress management to increase workforce resiliency.

The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center invites you to review this two-part webinar series on the retention and recruitment of medical assistants (MAs) and dental assistants (DAs). In response to the challenges health centers are currently facing when it comes to retaining and recruiting MAs and DAs, the STAR² Center partnered with The National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA) and National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA) to bring you experts in the field who shared strategies and promising practices to better develop your MA and DA workforce.

In the latest episode of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success, Helen Rhea Vernier talks Dr. Sarah Koerner, Director of Behavioral Health Services at Village Health Center at Father Joe’s Villages in San Diego, CA about the wide variety of what “self-care” means in practice and how she models that for her team.

Tune in to this episode through our website or your podcast player of choice for insights, lessons learned, and first-hand experience in navigating and overcoming the challenges of burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress that continue to affect the health center workforce.

"Organizational self-care is an approach that moves beyond self-care as an individual practice to accepting it as a collective responsibility" according to Health Outreach Partners’ (HOP). HOP produced a the Organizational Self-Care: Addressing the Collective Responsibility for Your Employees’ Wellbeing toolkit to support this organization level approach to supporting the wellbeing of individuals who make them successful.

The STAR² Center team recently hosted the third session in our PCA & HCCN Workforce Professional Development Webinar Series featuring guest speakers from HRSA on our next session to discuss Comprehensive Workforce Plans and Health Professions Education and Training Plans (formerly strategic workforce plans). If you missed the live session or would like to revisit the information covered, you are now able to access the session archive on our site. We hope we'll see our PCA and HCCN workforce colleagues on the line for the final session in the series on June 14.

The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Academy invites you to join the SDOH Academy Innovations Showcase Closing Webinar on May 12 at 3:00 PM (ET). During this webinar, winners of the competition will showcase their outstanding innovative work to address SDOHs. This opportunity will allow you to learn how other multidisciplinary health care teams apply and share solutions to unmet needs while addressing multiple community-based interventions that will help strengthen your health center’s SDOH practices.

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.