Strong and empathetic leadership is crucial for the success of any organization including health centers across the nation. As health centers continue to see a growing need for well-trained staff ready to take on leadership roles, it is important to look broadly at the entire workforce, including those working in mental health. Identifying and supporting future leaders takes careful consideration, time, and investment. Mental health practitioners are highly-trained individuals uniquely positioned to excel as leaders. During this webinar, presenters will provide knowledge, tips, and tools that highlight the importance of leadership training and career pathways focused on the advancement of the mental health workforce.
Speakers:
Dr. Adijat Ogunyemi, DSW, LMSW, Therapist, Adjunct Faculty, Social Innovator
Dr. Tim Kearney, PhD, Chief Behavioral Health Officer at Community Health Center, Inc.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the strong leadership qualities of the mental health workforce based on their training and skill sets.
Identify career pathways that support mental health staff moving into leadership positions.
Understand the crucial role training plays in identifying and preparing future health center leaders.
The STAR² Center team invites health center, PCA, and HCCN workforce teams to participate in the Workforce Professional Development Series. This session was conducted on December 15, 2022, and focused on manager training plans.
Many workplaces have staff representing three, four, or even five different generations working together. But do generational differences lead to conflicts amongst staff? How should we communicate across generations? Join Dr. Michelle Fernández Gabilondo and Alex Rohlwing from the STAR² Center for Communicating Across Generations: A discussion on the multigenerational workplace, conflict, and communication.
Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HP-ET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Then join ACU’s STAR² Center for “Advancing Health Center Retention & Recruitment through HP-ET,” the final installment of our three-webinar series on building HP-ET programs at health centers. This webinar is a one-hour discussion on the challenges, solutions, and benefits of building an HP-ET program at your health center. In this session, Dr. Ethan Kerns provides an overview of the development program created for staff at Salud Family Health in Colorado and highlights the career development this program provides for his dental staff.
Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HPET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Then join ACU’s STAR² Center on for “Advancing Health Center Retention & Recruitment through HP-ET,” Part Two of our three-webinar series on building HPET programs at health centers.
Hear from NEW Health, a community health center located in rural northeast Washington State, serving rural and frontier communities who, as a result of implementing a strategic workforce initiative, has more qualified applicants than they can hire!
Learn how NEW Health launched their own comprehensive workforce development initiative. Branded as “NEW Health University”, their plan is the culmination of many years of developing creative solutions to rural workforce challenges. NEW Health University serves as the umbrella for all of NEW Health’s workforce initiatives, including strategies for external and internal pipeline development, recruitment, retention, training, and employee growth within the organization.
Interested in creating or expanding a Health Professions Education & Training (HP-ET) program at your health center? Are you looking for a way to ramp up your recruiting of clinical care providers by partnering with teaching and training programs? Then join ACU’s STAR² Center for “Health Center Partnerships for Pathway Development,” part of our webinar series on building HP-ET programs at health centers. This one-hour webinar features a discussion with two healthcare provider training institutions on how they partner with health centers to provide medical education opportunities for their students, and recruiting opportunities for the health centers with whom they partner. Dr. April Dobroth, Clinical Director of Frontier Nursing University’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program and Dr. Sharon Obadia, Associate Dean of Clinical Education Services at AT Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine discuss their specific programs, their partnerships with health centers, and what institutions like theirs look for when engaging in HP-ET partnerships with health centers. Dr. Kiki Nocella, a Director of Healthcare Consulting at Wipfli and specialist in graduate medical education provides opening remarks on creating successful HP-ET partnerships in health centers.
Part of being a manager is developing and coaching your team members. To be effective in your role proper communication is critical. Providing feedback is the process of communicating a reaction to your employees performance or behavior. During this webinar, presented on May 26, 2022, people expert, April Lewis, will provide strategies for managers to give positive and productive feedback to their team members.
At the end of this session, you will be able to: – Deliver productive feedback to your employee in-person and virtually – Confidently and constructively provide feedback in positive and negative situations – Cultivate a practice of giving consistent feedback
