In consideration of the nation’s emerging majority of color, the Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology (CEMRRAT) of the American Psychological Association seeks to promote creative transformation of psychology’s educational pipeline (high school, graduate training, and continuing education) to ensure that psychologists who are people of color will significantly increase, and all psychologists will demonstrate at least minimal multicultural competence in training, research, and practice issues. Currently, there are few or no research or education and training materials on providing psychological services to linguistically diverse populations through use of languages other than English.

Five types of models for expanding multicultural education and training include:

1. Ensuring that future psychologists develop some minimal competence in multicultural issues by infusing or integrating ethnic minority issues into all required coursework at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels.

2. Prepare professionals to provide services to linguistically diverse populations by improving the quality of related training and professional development and increasing the number of psychologists who can provide such services.

3. Value ethnic minority professionals and communities by utilizing ethnic minority psychologists as mentors and supervisors, by providing educational training and experiences in ethnic minority communities and clinical settings.

4. Promote specialized competence in multicultural issues by providing an organized, coherent body of coursework and field or research experience on multicultural issues that are sufficient to constitute a major emphasis or "track".

5. Emphasize applied and community based research in ethnic minority communities, including interdisciplinary and interorganizational collaboration and consultation, neighborhood and community sampling and assessment, and systemic interventions.

CEO Services has been supported to survey resources and training programs in psychology with a focus on linguistic minority populations to increase the pipeline of professionals providing services to non-English speaking populations. Please take the time to fill out information about your program so that we might list it in our resource directory. If you know of such a program, please help us to identify such programs by identifying the program, and contact information.

Online Cultural Competence Resources will be featuring model programs in regular CEO Projects.

 

Name of Program:
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Contact Person/Training Director:
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Person filling out form:	Training Director Faculty Student Other
Please describe how program offers a focus on linguistic minority populations (e.g., faculty recruitment, student recruitment, curriculum and course content, allocation of resources, multicultural competencies, mentoring), and any unique characteristics in 200 words:
Is this a Psychology Training program:	Yes    No
Degree offered:
Number of students enrolled/year:   Number graduated last year:
Total number of students in program:
Number of minority students enrolled: Number graduated last year:
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Number of ethnic minority faculty in program: Total number of faculty in program:
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