Agency supervisors play a key role in ensuring that recipients receive high-quality services and staff are provided with the support they need to develop the skills, knowledge, and values to do their jobs. Good supervision has been linked to positive staff outcomes like improved job satisfaction, higher morale, and learning evidence-based practices. Unfortunately, most people who become supervisors aren’t offered training or coursework before taking on this important role. This can make an always challenging job even more difficult.

Back by popular demand, we will offer two important webinars featuring topics of interest to supervisors:

• May 6, 2026, 1pm – 3pm: “How Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change Can Be Used Within the Supervision Process”. Forrest “Rusty” Foster and Noah Lipton.

• June 24, 2026, 10am – noon: “Cultural Humility Within the Context of Supervision”. Norman Kim and Michael Blady.

Please note that these events require preregistration in the CPI Learning Management System. Please click on the desired title above to register. Capacity is limited, so please register soon. CEUs for these training events will be available.

Presenters

Forrest “Rusty” Foster, MSW worked for 12 years as an Implementation Specialist at the Center for Practice Innovation (CPI) Focus on Integrated Treatment (FIT) Initiative and at the NYC Tobacco Cessation Training and Technical Assistance Center. Prior to working at CPI, Rusty worked at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center where he provided training and implementation supports around integrated treatment to behavioral health programs and State Mental Health Authorities in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. Rusty retired in October 2025 but continues to work with the FIT team as a consultant.

Noah Lipton, LCSW is an Implementation Specialist and Special Project Manager for the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Institute at the Center for Practice Innovations (CPI). Mr. Lipton helps lead the ACT Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Initiative, a statewide effort to implement the evidence-based supported employment model on ACT teams. Mr. Lipton also supports the implementation of integrated substance use and mental health treatment on ACT teams through training, consultation, data collection and dissemination, and advocacy. In addition, Mr. Lipton facilitates trainings on ACT principles and practices, person-centered care planning, and motivational interviewing, among other topics. Mr. Lipton lives in Kingston, NY and enjoys racket sports, gaming, sci-fi/fantasy, and time with his family.

Norman H. Kim, PhD. Norman is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer for the Center for Practice Innovation. and the co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity, a social justice focused consultancy. He completed his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA. His research and clinical interests include the social development of people with autism, the developmental course of bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders. In conjunction Norman has developed an expertise in psychiatrically complex populations, and his primary areas of interest are the application of a transdiagnostic framework for eating disorders, taking an evolutionary approach to shame and anxiety, and minority mental health. He is a regular national and international speaker, educator, and passionate advocate with a particular focus on minority status and barriers to mental health care in marginalized communities. Most recently Norman was the Deputy Director of Ayana Therapy, a tech startup focused on providing culturally intelligent, adapted, and

accessible care to marginalized communities, and was the co-founder of Reasons Eating Disorder Center.

Michael Blady, LCSW-R, is a clinical, training and program development consultant, and private practitioner. He was the Chief Operating Officer at The Bridge from 2012-2020. Prior to that he worked for the Institute for Community Living and Henry Street Settlement. In his 40+ year career in human services as a clinician, supervisor, manager, and agency leader Michael has worked with adults, children, and families across the spectrum of social service needs. Michael is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, on the faculty of the Academy for Justice-Informed Practice, CUCS, and consultant for the Center for Practice Innovations. Michael is a graduate of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Services, class of 1978.