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Cultural humility

Culturally responsive and humble leadership and supervision

This training explores how structural racism influences traditional leadership and supervisory practices and offers a pathway toward culturally responsive and humble supervision. Culturally humble leaders recognize the limits of their knowledge, commit to lifelong learning, and actively seek to understand and support the lived experiences of diverse staff and clients. Participants will gain critical tools to identify and challenge systemic barriers within their organizations, strengthen relationships with supervisees, and create environments rooted in empathy, accountability, and trust. Through a framework of humility and responsiveness, supervisors will be better equipped to promote staff engagement, reduce disparities, and ensure high-quality care for diverse populations.

CLAS Standard Principal Standard: 1. Provide effective, equitable, understandable, and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health literacy, andother communication needs.

Learning objectives:

  • Define structural racism and cultural humility and explain at least three (3) ways they intersect to impact leadership, supervision, and service delivery in behavioral health settings.
  • Describe at least four (4) of the core principles of culturally humble leadership, including self-reflection, lifelong learning, and openness to feedback from staff and clients with diverse lived experiences.
  • Identify at least three (3) limitations of traditional leadership approaches in addressing systemic inequities and promoting psychological safety for racially and culturally diverse employees.
  • Apply at least four (3) culturally responsive and humble supervision strategies that strengthen relationships with supervisees, build trust, and support the professional development of underrepresented staff.
  • Develop a personal leadership action plan that incorporates humility, accountability, and advocacy to address disparities within the organization and improve culturally responsive care.
  • Utilize the National CLAS Standards and other equity frameworks to guide the implementation of inclusive supervision and leadership practices across all levels of behavioral health organizations.

 

Register:

County employees, register by clicking on the blue registration button.
County partners, register at sccgov.org/scclearn-partner (required for CEs)

Registration and cancellation close at 9am two working days prior to training. You will be recorded as a No-Show in sccLearn if you don't attend and did not cancel the training.
If you have questions, need accommodations, or have a grievance, please contact: [email protected].

Tuesday, June 18, 2024
9:00am - 4:30pm
In-person event
San Jose Scottish Rite Center
2455 Masonic Drive
San Jose, CA 95125-2036
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(408) 792-3900
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Training materials

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