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Walking Across Cultures
Sunday, May 11, 2008
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Join CCHCP during the week of May 11 – 17, 2008 for our annual "Walking Across Cultures" event.
Greenlake, Seattle, Washington

Bridging the Gap Training
Monday, June 9, 2008
9:00 am
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Seattle, WA

Language Access Resource Guide

Definition:  Language Access materials include those related to interpreter training and resources, as well as medical and health care materials in other languages.

Organizations

Non-Profit

American Translators Association

Cross Cultural Health Care Program

Ethnomed

National Council on Interpreting in Health Care

  • National Code of Ethics for Interpreters in Health Care
  • Linguistically Appropriate Access and Services: An Evaluation and Review for Health Care Organizations

Government Agencies and Regulations

Federal

Centers for Disease Control
Includes the nine most prevalent languages in the USA (Spanish, Russian, Chinese, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, Tagalog, and German) plus thirteen others

Multicultural Health Communication Services
Includes health information sheets in 60 languages.

National Library of Medicine
Health Resources in Multiple Languages

Key Publications, Articles, Books

Publications

Language Services Resource Guide
Alyssa Sampson. Prepared for the National Health Law Program and The National Council on Interpreting in Health Care. October 2006.

ATA Chronicles (American Translator's Association)

The Interpreter and Translator Trainer (UK)

Books Online

http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Contains medical glossaries for eight languages.  Over 240 languages represented in their general dictionary resources.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Translates English into a dozen languages. The benefit of this website is that it will translate a block of text, not just an individual word or phrase.

Other Related Resources

Northwest Interpreters
Vancouver WA

Office of Multicultural Health in Oregon.
Oregon Law and Interpreter Ethics, Assessment, etc.

Pacific Northwest Resources

Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society
Seattle WA

The Translator's Home Companion
A professional resource for translators

Vancouver Canada
For blind, deaf and hard of hearing:

Medical Interpreting Services at:
Vancouver TTY 604-736-7099
TTY Toll Free 1-877-736-7099
Vancouver Voice 604-736-7012
Voice Toll Free 1-877-736-7012

California Resources

Language and Cultural Access Program
Asian languages

Listserves

General

LANTRA-L - Interpreting and translation. To subscribe, send the following e-mail message to LISTSERV@SEGATE.SUNET.SE: subscribe LANTRA-L

TRANSLAT - Discussion of theory and practice of translation. To subscribe, send the following e-mail message to listproc@mail.wustl.edu: subscribe TRANSLAT

techtranslation - Technical Translators' Forum

Interlang - A mailing list for the discussion of anything related to translation and Interpreting. To subscribe, send the command subscribe interlang as the body of an e-mail message to majordomo@netacc.net

GlossPost - Mailing list for the exchange of the URLs of any interesting glossaries or dictionaries found on the Internet, whether monolingual, bilingual or multilingual

GPsearch - Discussion of Web searching strategies for translators

Gpaper- Discussion of non-Internet dictionaries and glossaries

The LINGUIST List - Subscription page

The Linguist Web Discussion Forum

TermXchange - Terminology exchange list

CAT_convert - Discussion of converting files of any type for use with any translation memory system

Business Practices Discussion - Specialized newsgroup for the discussion of business practices in the translation / interpreting industry

Transcoop - Discussion list of the new International Translators' Cooperative. To subscribe, send an empty message to transcoop-subscribe@egroups.com or go to the list's home page

In the news...

Northwest Resource Center Receives OMH Grant
The Office of Minority Health, Region X, has awarded a grant to CCHCP's Resource Center to fund development of an outreach program for health and social services professionals working with minority and underserved populations.
CCHCP, 04/14/2008

CCHCP Executive Director Addresses American Heart Association
CCHCP Executive Director, Ira SenGupta was the closing speaker for the American Heart Association’s ‘Painting the Future’ 2008 Health Strategies Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas in March. She spoke on the topic of ‘The Role of Cultural Competency in Cardiovascular Health’ to over 100 members of the AHA’s leadership from all eight of its national affiliates.
CCHCP, 03/18/2008



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