The National Health Service Corps (NHSC)- can make your community in a Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) healthier by helping you recruit and retain qualified health care clinicians who care about underserved people and choose to work where they are needed most.
Federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, and other sites that care for low-income and uninsured people can become NHSC-approved sites where dentists, dental hygienists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, physician assistants, and mental health professionals who are eligible for loan repayment funding or have received scholarships can fulfill their service obligation.

M-SEARCH - A program being launched in 2010 by the Michigan Department of Community Health to place medical residents and other students in the medical professions at sites throughout Michigan in medically underserved areas to gain experience in primary care fields.  Free clinics could be considered for placement sites.  Rotations at the site could range from a few weeks full-time to long term part-time arrangements.

AmeriCorps VISTA - Recruit VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) members to serve at your clinic.  VISTAs serve full-time for one year contracts and are paid by the federal government to help nonprofit organizations build their capacity to serve others.

Contact the Free Clinics of Michigan administative office or Evan Albert, the state coordinator for VISTA programs at the Corporation for National and Community Service, for additional information.