Culturally Aware and Responsive Clinical Supervisor Training
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The goal of this training is to increase the number of licensed mental health providers from under-represented communities who are eligible to provide clinical supervision to students and new graduates. The training is free to eligible participants. This opportunity is available to those who hold an LPCC, LICSW, LMFT, or LP.
The curriculum is approved by the LPCC, LICSW, LMFT, and LP boards. The curriculum meets the BBHT (LPCC) board’s requirement to be eligible to be a board-approved supervisor. It meets the LICSW requirements to become a licensing supervisor plus CEs in cultural responsiveness and ethics. It meets the LMFT requirements for supervision, cultural competency, and ethics. LPs who complete this training will be eligible to be supervisors for LPs and meet requirements to be eligible to supervise LPC and LPCC candidates.
Grant support is provided by the Minnesota Department of Health.
The Culturally Aware and Responsive Clinical Supervisor Training is provided in collaboration with Abdur Razzaq Counseling.
Contact
Salina Renninger
Associate Professor
Format and Timing
Online format
Participants attend sessions every other week from February 1 to May 10, 2023 from 5 - 8 pm.
Guided Self-Study
During the off-weeks, three hours of guided self-study is required.
All meetings and work must be completed the earn the 45 credits. Due to the grant support for the opportunity, participants must agree to complete all aspects of the training.
Continuing Education Content
Curriculum
The curriculum covers material considered essential to becoming a culturally responsive supervisor:
- The standard body of knowledge for culturally responsive supervisor training, including roles and functions
- Supervision as a distinct competency area
- Models, methods, and common challenges
- Assessment strategies and how to give feedback
- Hierarchy, power differentials and cultural humility
- Ethics, informed consent, and legal issues
- The supervisory relationship and professionalism
- Skill-building and remediation planning will be covered
Week One Training
During the first week of the training, the concepts of critical consciousness, anti-racism, and liberation will be emphasized, and these concepts will be used throughout the course to engage with the standard body of knowledge.
Teaching Approaches
A variety of teaching approaches will be utilized throughout the course. Lectures will be used to ground everyone in the same content and help participants to develop a shared language. Then, active-learning and adult-learning approaches will be used to deepen understanding through the sharing of experiential knowledge in the classroom and critical inquiry, involving discussion and reflection, about the content.
Curriculum
The curriculum covers material considered essential to becoming a culturally responsive supervisor:
- The standard body of knowledge for culturally responsive supervisor training, including roles and functions
- Supervision as a distinct competency area
- Models, methods, and common challenges
- Assessment strategies and how to give feedback
- Hierarchy, power differentials and cultural humility
- Ethics, informed consent, and legal issues
- The supervisory relationship and professionalism
- Skill-building and remediation planning will be covered
Week One Training
During the first week of the training, the concepts of critical consciousness, anti-racism, and liberation will be emphasized, and these concepts will be used throughout the course to engage with the standard body of knowledge.
Teaching Approaches
A variety of teaching approaches will be utilized throughout the course. Lectures will be used to ground everyone in the same content and help participants to develop a shared language. Then, active-learning and adult-learning approaches will be used to deepen understanding through the sharing of experiential knowledge in the classroom and critical inquiry, involving discussion and reflection, about the content.
Facilitators
Eligibility Requirements
All participants must by Minnesota residents.
This opportunity is available to those who hold an LPCC, LICSW, LMFT, or LP.
Participants must be members of an underrepresented community as define by Minnesota State Statute section 148E.010, Subd.20.: "'Underrepresented community' means a group that is not represented in the majority with respect to race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical ability."
Agree to deliver at least 25% of your yearly patient encounters to either: a) state public program enrollees or b) patients receiving sliding fee schedule discounts through a formal sliding fee schedule meeting the standards established by the United State Department of Health and Human Services under Code of Federal Regulations, title 41, section 51, chapter 303. The sliding fee schedule requirements can be found on the National Archives website.