Bilingual / Bicultural Clinical Training Program
The pandemic revealed and exacerbated health disparities along racial lines, and now we are seeing a mental health crisis in the Latine community, across age and socio-economic spectrums. We at the Healthcare Foundation were so impressed with the success of the Mental Health Talent Pipeline in creating access to mental health services for low-income Spanglish and mono-lingual Spanish speakers, that we brainstormed with partners at On the Margins and Humanidad Therapy & Education how to expand access even further. The Bilingual/Bicultural Clinical Training Program was born from these visioning sessions.
The planning phase was supported by Aliados Health, Sonoma Connect/Sonoma Unidos, and ARPA funds. The program itself received support from Kaiser Permanente and the Peter E. Haas Jr. Family Fund, enabling Humanidad to create paid positions for bilingual/bicultural trainees, and On the Margins to launch Nepantlah, a virtual workshop series “for bilingual and multicultural mental health practitioners, community health workers, and psychology students…to share knowledge, deepen skills, and nurture connections with others who are working with Latine populations and striving for a decolonial praxis.”
