Organization:
Cross-Cultural Communications

Dates:
April 5, 6, 12, 13 and 20, 2013

Cost:
$625 plus $65 test

Location:
10015 Old Columbia Road, Entrance B
Columbia, MD 21046

Target audience:
Contract interpreters who perform interpreting in health care, education and human and social services, and bilingual employees in those sectors who interpret as staff or adjunct interpreters.

Brief description:
Offered in Maryland each year in April and October, in addition to private sessions, THE COMMUNITY INTERPRETER is the first and only national 40-hour certificate program in community interpreting. This program, which operates across the U.S., supports medical interpreters who also perform social services and educational interpreting, whether as freelancers or in the course of their work in health care or other settings. THE COMMUNITY INTERPRETER is based on and supports IMIA, NCIHC and CHIA ethics and standards of practice. The course covers ethics and conduct, basic skills (from pre-session to post-session), positioning and terminology, modes of interpreting, steps for sight translation, intervention strategies, cultural mediation, and other vital skills. In addition, this program provides an overview of the interpreting profession and discusses interpreter certification. Role plays, activities and group exercises provide hands-on experience for skills development. Video segments offer demonstrations of the “right and wrong” ways to interpret, and a 405-page training manual and a 131-page workbook are included. Participants must be tested for language proficiency. The program includes a two-hour written assessment on the last day of training and offers three levels of certificates for successful candidates based on their written assessment and oral language proficiency:
Level 1: Qualified Interpreter
Level 2: Professionally Trained Interpreter
Level 3: Hospitality Interpreter

Contact information:
Michelle Gallagher
Title: Office Manager
Phone: 410.312.5599
Fax: 410.750.0332
Email: ccc2@cultureandlanguage.net
Website: http://www.cultureandlanguage.net
Other info:
To register, please go to http://cultureandlanguage.net/index.php/the-community-interpreter-1.html?parent=training&pr=The%20Community%20Interpreter