Tune in to the latest episodes of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast's third season! This season provides 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.

The STAR² Center recently released 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.

Practicing self-compassion is a key skill to help individuals dealing with stress and fighting burnout build emotional resilience. This online resource center produced by Dr. Kristin Neff offers descriptions, videos, tools, and tips for fostering self-compassion to help health center staff treat themselves with "the same kindness and care [they’d] give to a good friend".

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.

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. We will be joined by guest speakers from HRSA on our next session to discuss Comprehensive Workforce Plans and Health Professions Education and Training Plans (formerly strategic workforce plans).

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.