This season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success explores a variety of approaches health centers can take to support mental health professions pathways. Tune in to hear from Susan Boyles, Director of Behavioral Health at Adelante Healthcare, as she shares ideas on how to effectively engage health center...

Supportive partnerships are essential to the “grow your own” approach to workforce development programs. In this episode, Meadow Hazelhoff, Director of Behavioral Health and Special Populations at the Oklahoma Primary Care Association, explains how strategic investments in partnerships and internal processes can help to support the recruitment, retention, and...

In this episode of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success, Emily Bennett, Behavioral Health Program Manager from the Association of Utah Community Health, shares an innovative model to meet the increased demand for behavioral health providers by partnering with local universities to support early career mental health providers to...

Supportive partnerships are essential to the “grow your own” approach to workforce development through Health Professions Education and Training (HP-ET) programs. In this episode of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success, Amy Weinstein of Thundermist Health Center explains how cultivating a variety of partnerships at the local, state, and...

The fifth season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success highlights Primary Care Organizations (PCAs), Community Health Centers (CHCs), and National Training and Technical Assistant Partners (NTTAPs) who successfully used, disseminated, and/or implemented practices, strategies, tools, and more gathered from the STAR² Center’s training opportunities, technical assistance, or original...

West Hawaii Community Health Center (WHCHC) serves the western population on the Big Island of Hawaii with patient-centered healthcare. Their dental department sought to improve the work culture, identifying two main challenges in staff retention and engagement: mid-level management gaps and training & development of staff. To combat these...

Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center (ANHC) is the largest and longest established community health center in Alaska, providing full-service health care (medical, dental, pharmacy, lab, etc.) to residents in the area. It is staffed by approximately 160 employees and serves around 12,000 patients annually. ANHC has utilized staff satisfaction surveys...