Online supervision training during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot program to foster supervisor engagement and organizational sustainability

This online pilot supervision training program, with the primary goal of fostering supervisor engagement and organizational sustainability, was collaboratively developed using a combination of didactic and experiential learning to meet the acute needs of a Canadian community-based mental health/addiction organization transitioning through integration during the pandemic. Preliminary qualitative and descriptive results of a post-training survey with 21 supervisors highlighted lessons learned to meet immediate training needs, the benefits and challenges of technology in online learning, and the complexities of embedding sustainable supervision practice within organizational culture. The results support a broader training program for a provincial network of agencies.