Getting Racism Out of Our Work (GROW): Design, Deployment, and Early Outcomes for a Program to Increase Psychology Supervisor's Multicultural Competence

When psychology clinical supervisors lack the fundamental knowledge and skills required to provide racially and culturally competent supervision, trainee satisfaction, clinical practice, and professional development suffers. Knowledge of key culture and diversity frameworks must be paired with integrated skills and to improve racially and culturally responsive clinical supervisory practices for health service psychology trainees. Organized around Kern's six-step approach, this article describes the development and pilot implementation of the Getting Racism Out of Our Work core program to provide psychology supervisors with the aforementioned foundational knowledge and skills. Pilot participants reported high levels of satisfaction and applicability of program learning to their supervisory practice. Opportunities to improve the program, such as increasing access to expert consultants and improving accessibility via alternate formats (e.g., asynchronous learning) were noted. Key learnings and future directions are discussed.