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...
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2018-2019 PCA & HCCN Workforce Professional Development Series – Session 1
This session was presented on November 1, 2018, as the first session in this monthly workforce professional development series for PCA and HCCN teams. Allison Abayasekara of the STAR² Center and Andrea Martin of CHAMPS discussed workforce data available to health centers and state level teams. You can access...
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 moreHRSA – Behavioral Health Workforce Analysis
HRSA’s National Center for Health Workforce Analysis recently conducted analyses on the adult and pediatric mental health and substance abuse disorder workforce. This site contains estimates and projections for behavioral health workforce staff in a variety of roles. Past releases of this data analysis are also included for your...
View moreSTAR² Center Burnout Assessment Tool
This Burnout Self-Assessment Tool has been designed to assist your health center in identifying topics for further exploration. The tool includes 7 questions to gauge the need for intervention to prevent burnout at your organization. It should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. The Burnout Self-Assessment Tool’s primary purpose...
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...
View moreSTAR² Center PCA & HCCN Workforce Professional Development Series
From November 2018 through April 2019 the STAR² Center team invited workforce staff from PCA and HCCN teams to participate in a brand new professional development series. Faculty and guest speakers brought their expertise in all things workforce to share insight from the national, regional, and state levels with the learning cohort....
View moreSTAR² Center Report 2017 – Training Opportunities in Health Centers
This literature review is intended to provide background information on formal relationships between health centers and community training opportunities, create a catalog of existing collaborations and their structures, and offer suggestions for how they could be replicated in other communities.
View moreSTAR² Center Report 2017 – Provider Mix and Staffing Ratios
This report considers a variety of provider mix and support staff ratios that have been employed by health centers to promote recruitment and retention of their staff especially during the current shortage of primary care physicians. The report offers observations on how various staffing strategies can be used to achieve the Quadruple...
View moreSTAR² Center – Strategic Workforce Planning Workbook
Strategic planning is an ongoing process focused on identifying how to continue moving the organization toward fulfilling its mission and achieving its vision and goals given the ever-changing environment. This process of strategic workforce planning includes analyzing present data in order to plan for your future. This STAR² Center original workbook...
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