Join the ACU STAR² Center for the first session in the two-part series focused on the retention and recruitment of specific workforce populations that highlight experts from the field to help give viewers the tools to start the work or continue in the process of building a more inclusionary and welcoming organization. While no group is a monolith and people live at the intersections of various identities, it is important to identify the specific needs of these highly-skilled employees and build workplaces that are diverse, inclusive, and equitable. This first session on focuses on retaining and recruiting veterans to the health center workforce.
Click here to access the second session in this series. It was hosted on October 24, 2022, and focused on retention and recruitment of members of the LGBTQIA+ community in the health center workforce.
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Communicating Across Generations: Managing generational conflict in the workplace
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
As health center teams grapple with ongoing and overlapping stressors contributing to burnout at the individual level, leaders must provide the structural support to build resilient teams and take a top-down approach to stress management, relieving the burden of action on individual staff to engage in self-care. This webinar, brought to you by the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) STAR² Center, led by expert trainers April Lewis and Matt Bennett, explores the role health center leadership plays in building their teams and supporting stress management to increase workforce resiliency.
Click here to access a diagramed definition of a Comprehensive Workforce Plan and how a Health Professions Education and Training Plan (HP-ET) compliments it.
Studies show that in an integrated, team-based environment, just one burned-out staff member can disrupt team dynamics. But even in times of high stress, health center staff are more likely to be engaged and satisfied with their jobs if given the tools they need to succeed, in an organization that fosters resiliency. Join the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved’s (ACU) STAR² Center for this hour-long webinar designed to highlight the role of health center leadership in fostering an organizational culture of resilience and providing concrete tips to spur this culture change, combat stress, and reduce burnout among their staff—ultimately building stronger teams.
