Join the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) for our upcoming Recruitment Boot Camp: Mental Health Staff Edition (2025). Building on the success of the previous boot camps, ACU’s STAR² Center team will provide a focused look at the most pertinent topics affecting the successful recruitment and retention...
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2020-2021 PCA & HCCN Workforce Professional Development Series
Primary Care Association (PCA) and Health Center Controlled Network (HCCN) staff were invited to join the STAR2 Center team for a monthly webinar series focused on workforce professional development. Series topics were designed to align with current workforce initiatives led by the Bureau of Primary Health Care and enable...
View moreSTAR² Center High-Functioning Managers Learning Collaborative
Description: Adequate and appropriate training is vital for a health center’s success and growth. According to Gallup research, the immediate manager is the top reason an employee quits their job. Specific training is essential for managers to lead a diverse, engaged and productive team. The STAR² Center invites you to...
View moreManager Training for Employee Engagement – Part 2
This session was hosted on June 30, 2020 as the second session in this two part series. During this session, April Lewis of Good Connection, Inc. took the audience for a deep dive into the importance of employee engagement efforts and provided insight on how managers can engage their...
View moreManager Training for Employee Engagement – Part 1
This session was hosted on June 23, 2020 as the first session in this two part series. During this session, April Lewis of Good Connection, Inc. provided an overview of the STAR² Center Manager Training Toolkit and introduced attendees to the “why” behind the toolkit and manager training in...
View moreSTAR² Center Turnover Tool Webinar Series
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...
View moreThe Power of Stay Interviews Learning Collaborative
Description The Power of Stay Interviews learning collaborative is designed to cut employee turnover, and has done so for healthcare workers, specifically cutting nurse turnover by 35%. The course will direct all participants to implement Finnegan’s Arrow℠, an invention that replaces traditional HR-driven one-sized-fits-all programs with training each leader to...
View moreEmployee Engagement Learning Collaborative
Engaged employees are happier, more productive and far more likely to stay for the long-term, and skilled managers are key to developing a highly engaged team. For 12-weeks from March through May, a cohort of 30 participants will spend 30 minutes each week in a mix of webinars, group...
View more2018-2019 PCA & HCCN Workforce Professional Development Series – Session 2
This session was presented on December 6, 2018, as the second session in this monthly workforce professional development series for PCA and HCCN teams. The STAR² Center’s Suzanne Speer kicked off the session by discussing the steps for preparing a statewide workforce training plan. Nataly Diaz and Isaias Iñiguez of...
View moreSTAR² Center Retention Planning & Strategies: Behavioral Health Edition
The STAR² Center returns this fall with a series of retention planning workshops for a limited cohort of health center workforce staff. Series faculty week will spend three sessions reviewing aspects of organizational retention planning at a “201” level and build upon those discussions with three sessions detailing strategies for retention specifically as...
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