Is there a forum or goup formation procedure I should follow

Joan, these are great questions. Here is information on how to get your staff accounts setup centeringconnects.forums.net/thread/100/trying-get-team-board-centeringconnects. It would be best to let them sign themselves up so they can choose their own usernames.

With regard to setting up a separate group or forum for birth centers, we are very interested in learning about what would be useful for our Centering community. We are also cautious about creating too many sub-communities because they can tend to isolate members. We would prefer our members share their experiences with everyone in the community.

We are not ruling anything out and we may eventually decide that subgroups for birth centers or military sites or FQHCs or Indian Health Service are great ideas.  In the meantime, you can create a birth center thread in CenteringPregnancy forum to start.