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CHAMPS TRAININGS, INTENSIVES, AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS

CORE Competencies for Health Center Supervisors and Managers

Date/Time/Location: The next CORE Training is anticipated to be held in spring of 2027.

Lead Trainer: Lisa Mouscher, CEO and Lead Consultant at Sogence Training and Consulting

Recommended For: First-time managers or supervisors with 18 months of experience or less AND more experienced managers at all levels looking to refresh and hone their skills.

Course Overview: Health Center managers and supervisors play a pivotal role in the success of your organization as they work to drive daily operations and hire, train, guide, coach, develop, motivate, manage and retain productive, satisfied employees and consistency deliver results. This course – specifically designed for managers and supervisors at community health centers – offers intensive, hands-on, and immediately applicable skill-building to successfully navigate these crucial roles in the fast-paced and often challenging health center environment.

Course Components: This course will be offered as a virtual training and includes group and one-on-one educational and networking components as well as short “homework” assignments to encourage putting new skills into immediate action.

Questions about this training?
Please contact the CHAMPS Workforce Development and Member Services Director.

Beyond CORE Competencies: Next Level Skills for Health Center Supervisors and Managers (NLS)

Date/Time/Location: The next NLS Training is anticipated to be held in spring of 2026.

Lead Trainer: Lisa Mouscher, CEO and Lead Consultant at Sogence Training and Consulting

Recommended For: Managers and supervisors with a minimum of 18 months of supervisory experience, or as a follow-up to the CHAMPS “CORE Competencies for Health Center Supervisors and Managers” training.

Course Overview: The Next Level Skills training is a dynamic, hands-on, highly interactive program that is a step up from the CHAMPS CORE Competencies for Health Center Supervisors and Managers training. This course allows these key health center leaders to delve deeper into the best practices, knowledge, and skills needed to be a great manager/supervisor, beginning with a review of the crucial skills needed to hire, coach, retain, and manage others. Participants will then move to higher-level learning for effectively engaging a diverse workforce; avoiding, circumventing, and de-escalating conflict; strengthening day-to-day decision-making practices; and successfully managing change. Next Level Skills is designed both for those who have already attended the CHAMPS CORE Competencies training plus any others looking to strengthen or hone additional and higher-level management skills.

Course Components: This course will be offered as a virtual training and includes group and one-on-one educational and networking components as well as short “homework” assignments to encourage putting new skills into immediate action.

Questions about this training?
Please contact the CHAMPS Workforce Development and Member Services Director.

Leadership Essentials: Systems-Thinking and Building Community Partnerships

Date/Time/Location: The online Leadership Essentials: Systems-Thinking and Building Community Partnerships series began in January and concluded in March 2025.

Course Overview: Many pressing problems cannot be solved sustainably by one person or party. This free series was designed for Region VIII health center and public health leaders who need to build a shared vision in the face of apparent differences, whether within a single organization, between organizations, within a community, or across society. Participants learned collaborative skills and strategies to increase effectiveness at reaching across silos, convening effective teams, and listening and responding to colleagues, constituents, communities, and other stakeholders. The series featured learning and practice for each crucial stage of collaborative decision-making. Participants were encouraged to work through the material with a specific community collaborative project in mind. This series was a partnership between CHAMPS and Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center for Region VIII community health and public health leaders.

Specific Topics Explored:

  • Whether to collaborate
  • Stakeholder mapping and assessment
  • Sources of power
  • Cultural differences
  • Keys to principled collaborative decision-making
  • Navigating impasses
  • Building solutions
  • Ensuring follow-through
  • Engagement plans, process design, and workplans

Recommended For: This online series was intended for new and seasoned leaders at community health centers and public health agencies (governmental or non-governmental) in Region VIII (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY). These leaders had strategic responsibilities within their organizations.

The 2025 Leadership Essentials: Systems-Thinking and Building Community Partnerships series has now concluded. Please check back to inquire about future iterations.

Questions about this training?
Please contact the CHAMPS Clinical Quality Improvement Director.

Peak Performance Leadership Program: A CHAMPS/RMPHTC Leadership Development Training for Community Health & Public Health Leaders

Date/Time/Location: The online 2024 Peak Performance Leadership Program began in June and concluded in September 2024.

Course Overview: Embark on a transformative journey of leadership excellence with the Peak Performance Leadership Program! Designed to propel leaders to new heights of success, this dynamic training focuses on cultivating trust, enhancing communication, and developing emerging leaders. Through immersive sessions led by industry experts, Coleman Associates will help participants learn essential skills for fostering collaborative relationships, mastering effective communication strategies, and strategically navigating leadership evolutions to higher levels of performance management. Continuing Education credits were available to participants.

Recommended For: This training was created for new and seasoned leaders at community health centers and public health agencies (governmental or non-governmental) in Region VIII (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY). These leaders should have strategic responsibilities within their organizations.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Develop skills for trust-building through communication and effective conflict management.
  • Identify leadership best practices and incorporate them into a final project.
  • Identify best practices for team functioning and development with the organizational leadership team.
  • Develop a leadership development plan for individual growth.

The 2024 Peak Performance Leadership Program has now concluded. Please check back to inquire about future iterations.

Questions about this training?
Please contact the CHAMPS Clinical Quality Improvement Director.

ADDITIONAL TRAININGS, INTENSIVES, AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS

Advanced Leadership Training Program (ALTP)
Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL)
August – May Annually, Denver, CO

RIHEL provides leadership training, builds linkages among leaders, and strengthens the relationships among health professionals, environmental professionals, the academic community, the public sector, and the private sector (click HERE for more information about RIHEL and its various programs). RIHEL’s Advanced Leadership Training Program (ALTP) is a year-long program designed to help current and emerging leaders understand their leadership behaviors, enhance their leadership skills, make use of the collaborative process to address complex problems and create an interdisciplinary network of colleagues who are dedicated to the health and environment of the RIHEL region (CO, WY, and NM). Topics studied and practiced include exemplary leadership practices, collaborative leadership, diversity assets, difficult conversations, intentional action for leaders, systems thinking, advocacy and influence, and communicating through the media. ALTP begins in August each year and completes the following May. Applications are accepted each year from mid-January through April 30th.

Contact: Connie Sorell, RIHEL Program Manager, connie.sorell@rihel.org or 303-871-4252.
Click HERE for more details about the program.

Certificate in Health Administration for Community Health Center Leaders
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences (ATSU)
Asynchronous, Online Course

This 12-hour, graduate-level certificate program is designed to provide both current and aspiring healthcare leaders with an experience that delivers immediately actionable learning objectives. Each participant must complete the following courses: Foundational Leadership, Financial Management, and two electives selected from 13 topics, including the following: human resources, quality improvement, governance, policy, strategy, project management, and grant writing. Additional key features include:

  • 100% online, asynchronous through the ATSU-College of Graduate Health Studies (CGHS)
  • Four program entrance dates per year, beginning January 2025
  • 20% tuition discount for all National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) members and/or employees of NACHC member organizations and scholarships available for eligible applicants
  • Advanced standing toward one of the following ATSU degrees; Master of Health Administration (12 hours), Doctor of Health Administration (12 hours), or Master of Public Health (6 hours)

Click HERE for more details about the program.

The Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy
Health Policy Fellows Program
Washington, DC

The Health Policy Fellows Program is designed to enable mid-level and senior health center and Primary Care Association (PCA) staff to develop a deeper understanding of health policy and acquire key health policy analysis skills of value to their own organization’s policy advocacy efforts. Over a series of web-based sessions culminating in a four-day residential session in Washington, DC, the Fellows Program will provide rising health center and PCA leaders an immersive experience in federal health policy and policymaking and will assist participants in developing basic health policy analysis competencies that will enable them to develop positions and engage in advocacy. Participants will be instructed by senior National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) staff, faculty at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC health policy experts, Geiger Gibson Distinguished Visitors, and congressional and agency staff.

Click HERE for more details about this program.

Harvard School of Public Health Executive Education in Health Care Programs

The Harvard School of Public Health offers a variety of leadership and management programs for healthcare and physician executives. The programs are designed to assist professionals with their strategic planning while providing new information and techniques for immediate implementation. Harvard faculty present programs in collaboration with other recognized leaders in the field. Leadership trainings include:

  • Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives
  • Leadership Strategies for Information Technology in Healthcare
  • Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers

Click HERE for descriptions of these programs (search “Leadership” in Topics box) and a schedule of upcoming programs.

UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program

This annual intensive 11-day management program is designed exclusively for executives (e.g., CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, etc.) of community health centers. Executives from other community-based healthcare organizations that partner with health systems to address behavioral health issues and/or HIV/AIDS are also encouraged to apply. This program has particular applicability for those who have just assumed or soon will assume major management responsibilities. Organizations are encouraged to send multiple individuals from the leadership team and to identify other organizations with which they plan to merge, form an alliance, or partner, and then apply jointly. The curriculum consists of practical tools, techniques, and approaches to leadership and management designed to assist CHCs in adapting to the rapid and radical changes in policy, demographics, and technology impacting health care today. A unique and fundamental component of this program is that during the last two and a half days of this training, the board or community coalition chair is involved as a co-participant.

Click HERE for more information about the Health Care Executive Program.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum
IHI is an independent not-for-profit organization that works with healthcare providers and leaders throughout the world to achieve safe and effective healthcare. Their annual summit brings together revolutionary thinkers and innovative practitioners who strive to make critical connections across care settings while containing costs and providing the best patient experience.

American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition
This huge exposition featuring over 700 public health exhibits offers a plethora of opportunities for people involved with health care to launch careers and meet with pharmaceutical companies, schools of public health, health-related government agencies, and many other public health service and public-related organizations.