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 podcast, Amy Weinstein of Thundermist Health Center explains how cultivating a variety of partnerships at the local, state,...

The “grow your own” approach to workforce development is gaining traction at health centers across the country. As workforce teams design and implement the health professions education and training (HP-ET) programs that best serve their communities, it is helpful to hear from individuals who have followed the HP-ET pathway...

The fifth season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast 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...

Creating work spaces that foster resiliency and wellbeing is critical to building and retaining a strong, compassionate workforce. The fourth season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast focuses on the ways organizations support their employees and empower them to address and prevent the challenges of compassion fatigue...

Creating work spaces that foster resiliency and wellbeing is critical to building and retaining a strong, compassionate workforce. The fourth season of the STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success podcast focuses on the ways organizations support their employees and empower them to address and prevent the challenges of compassion fatigue...

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...