While the primary focus of community health centers is patient wellness, workforce wellness and development are also crucial to the successful function of CHCs. The workforce resources below for Virginia community health centers on topics cover recruitment to continuing education to retention.
Star2 Center: Provider Recruitment and Retention Assessment Tool
The Self-Assessment Tool’s primary purpose is to help you identify strategies that may improve your success with provider recruitment and retention. The tool includes questions about your current provider vacancies and hiring practices plus your use of best practices for recruitment and retention. Using your responses, the Self-Assessment Tool will provide brief recommendations on those topics you might want to pursue. The STAR2 Center has a considerable number of resources available to you on topics included in the Self-Assessment in our Resource Library.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA):
NACHC: Workforce Wellness Toolkit
This workforce wellness toolkit is designed to support health center leaders who are building comprehensive plans to enhance workforce health and wellbeing. Drawing on principles of trauma-informed care, this toolkit provides an overview of the neurobiology of toxic stress and offers specific clinic practices that support workers to better regulate their nervous systems and resist the real threats of moral injury and burnout. The toolkit offers sample workflow changes, emails, meeting agendas, and brief individual and team exercises that health centers can integrate into day-to-day clinic life.