ACU’s STAR² Center is looking for health center clinicians, leadership, and staff interested in participating in a 20 to 30-minute interview for a podcast series focusing on the need for organizationally-supported employee self-care. Tell your story about how you engage in self-care and how your organization approaches supporting self-care! If interested, please fill out this form. Thank you for your interest and the work you do to serve the systemically marginalized, as well as the work you do to care for yourself and staff in trying times.

The STAR² Center team recently compiled a resource repository including websites, tools, webinars, and more all focused on Workforce Self-Care. This resource repository includes free resources to support self-care at the individual level as well as at the organizational level for ongoing team support.

The STAR² Center and National Network for Oral Health Access (NNOHA) are seeking interested health centers to participate in a virtual learning collaborative that will focus on developing a recruitment and retention plan for oral health workforce.

There's still time to register for ACU's webinar on the importance of community engagement in diversifying clinical trials and improving health equity on Dec. 13. Learn about the vital importance of diversity in clinical trials and how we can engage our communities to diversify trials and help make safer, more effective medicines and vaccines 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. Learn more and save your spot for this four-part, semi-monthly series today!

While some organizations are conducting staff satisfaction surveys, many could use support to get started or improve their process. Health center teams are invited to apply to join the cohort for this five-part learning collaborative to gain an understanding of and action steps for how best to conduct and follow up on staff satisfaction surveys.

Recruiting and retaining providers is a challenge for many health centers and given the increased challenges of a global pandemic, the Great Resignation, and a pending Great Retirement in healthcare, health centers now, more than ever, must approach workforce development and “grow-your-own” efforts strategically. This Learning Collaborative, conducted in collaboration between the STAR² Center and Wipfli, will provide health centers an opportunity to develop a Strategic Workforce Plan focusing on Health Professions Education & Training (HP-ET) strategies to enhance capabilities to recruit, develop, and retain their provider workforce.

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.