Self-care means something different for everyone and is one of the most important tools used to address and mitigate the negative physiological and psychological effects of burnout. One of the most critical—but often overlooked—aspects of self-care is the need for organizations to take the lead in creating an environment...
One of the core components of a robust health center workforce is equitable and effective compensation. Pay equity means equal pay for equal work of equal value. This checklist will help health centers to look holistically at their compensation practices and ensure that they are recognizing the quality of...
Community Health Workers (CHWs) have played a key role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is essential that health center administrators, managers, and care teams understand how to effectively leverage the skills and experience of CHWs and adequately support and prepare them for this work. This...
This self-assessment tool has been designed to help PCA teams assess your organization’s strengths and challenges in delivering a robust workforce training and technical assistance program to health centers. The tool includes questions based on ACU’s Core Components for a healthy health center workforce including: Leadership Investment, Workforce Planning,...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll, Americans are facing greater mental health challenges. This infographic highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers’ mental wellness. It also outlines actionable, workplace strategies that both employees and employers can implement to support and improve mental health and wellness.
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating existing issues with health care professional burnout and joy in work that will persist once the more immediate crisis has abated. IHI reviewed available evidence for interventions that can help protect staff mental health in the face of extreme working conditions such as natural disasters,...
This printable PDF checklist provides a guide for health center staff to mitigate cybersecurity risks and threats during times of emergency and incident response that have them working remotely from the health center.
As health centers, Primary Care Associations (PCAs), and Health-Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) work to improve clinician retention in the field, questions continue to emerge about the real problem of turnover. There is not currently a publicly available data set available that specifically captures health center turnover, so ACU’s STAR²...
Is your health center experiencing high turnover? Are you trying to make the case for stronger workforce retention efforts within your organization? Are you struggling to figure out what is contributing to turnover at your organization? If you answered yes to one or all of these questions, then you...
This tool is for exploring the state-by-state characteristics of the behavioral health workforce. Selecting a state will output information about behavioral health professionals in that state, including what requirements they must meet to earn their credential and which services they are authorized to perform.
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