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Bridging the Gap Training of Trainers
Monday, April 12, 2010 - Friday, April 16, 2010
2010 IMIA International Conference on Medical Interpreting
Friday, September 3, 2010 - Sunday, September 5, 2010
National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations
Monday, October 18, 2010 - Thursday, October 21, 2010
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CCHCP at the International Medical Interpreter Association (IMIA) Conference
Ira SenGupta and Rose Long presented at the recently concluded 2009 Annual Conference of the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) on Sunday, Oct 11 in Boston, MA. Ms. SenGupta spoke on Language Access' Role in Recruitment and Retention in Cancer Clinical Trials.
Rose Long presented on Language Access and its Role in Environmental Justice.
, 10/12/2009 2009 Symposium of the National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter
Ira SenGupta presented the keynote speech -From Cultural Bump to Cultural Congruence: Enhancing Cultural Competence in Health and Human Services- at the recently concluded 2009 Symposium of the National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter in Des Moines. The theme of the annual symposium was -Growth, Change, and Competency in a Culturally Diverse World. About 300 social workers attended the meeting ON April 17, 2009 ably coordinated by Kelli Soyer, Executive Director of NASW, Iowa Chapter.
CCHCP, 06/01/2009 CCHCP Presented at National WIC Association's 26th Annual Conference
Ira SenGupta, Executive Director, recently presented on Cultural Competency and Working Effectively with Interpreters at the 26th Annual Conference of the National WIC Association in Nashville, Tennessee. A rich diversity of people access WIC (Women, Infant and Children) services bringing with them worldviews and approaches to diet and nutrition, pregnancy, breastfeeding, alcohol and drug use, family planning, and healthcare that may be different from the WIC staff who serve them. More than 900 WIC staff and administrators attended the conference on May 24 to 27 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville.
CCHCP, 06/17/2009 Bridging the Gap Training at the Alaska Immigration Justice Project
On March 9 to 13, 2009, Rose Long, Director of the Bridging the Gap (BTG) Interpreter Training Program at CCHCP, presented the week-long training to 23 participants. The class was a very diverse group, languages represented were Laotian, Yup'ik, Spanish, Tagalog, Arabic, Korean, Nuer, Russian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Portuguese, and Mandarin. Barb Jacobs, Program Manager of the Language Interpreter Center (LIC) of the Alaska Immigration Justice Project (AIJP)successfully coordinated this training. In 2007, the Municipality of Anchorage awarded the Mayor's Community & Non-profit Organization Diversity Award to AIJP. AIJP is dedicated to protecting the human rights of all Alaskans by providing comprehensive immigration legal services and language interpreter services throughout Alaska. Robin Bronen is the Executive Director.
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History Established in 1992 with a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation the Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP) was a response to an increasingly urgent need to decipher and to negotiate the diverse health care needs of the growing non-mainstream, limited English speaking populations in the Seattle area. Primarily a training and consulting organization, CCHCP endeavors to enhance the abilities of health professionals to provide culturally competent and linguistically appropriate care. From its inception, the CCHCP has approached the issue of cultural competency from a unique perspective which acknowledges its complex, systemic nature. Consequently, the work of the CCHCP has substantively differed from that of most organizations in the field which focus only on specific pieces of the puzzle of cultural competency. The CCHCP's approach places culture within the context of an interwoven network of relationships – between language and tradition, tradition and history, history and economics, etc. This basic but surprisingly atypical understanding of culture has allowed the CCHCP to build innovative programs addressing multiple layers of need within communities. The recognition that health care systems and institutions also operate as complex cultures, with specialized languages, traditions, and codes of conduct, has allowed us to develop similarly focused programs for organizational systems. In 1996, with a second-time grant awarded by Kellogg we began a campaign to disseminate our programs and products at the national level, and have been providing trainings at public and private settings across the country. The scope and reach of our programs continue to shift and grow. The strength of our work lies in our commitment to remain grounded within the communities we serve, and our consistent efforts to evaluate the efficacy of our work. We continue to strive to anticipate and respond to the changing needs of our communities and the emerging challenges surfacing in the health care field.
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