This course is for Bilingual Community Service professionals who currently work or have worked in the education, social services, community health, fire, police and emergency services fields interested in improving their language and cultural competency skills when working with their Limited English Proficient communities. Students in this field are welcomed.
The Community Service Professionals course uses The Community Interpreter® International, the first and only national 40-hour certificate program in community interpreting. It promotes national ethics and standards of practice in the field and can prepare interpreters to take national medical interpreter certification. The course covers ethics and conduct, basic skills (from pre-session to post-session), positioning and terminology, modes of interpreting, steps for sight translation, strategies for intervention, cultural mediation, and other vital skills and topics. In addition, this training provides an overview of the interpreting profession and discusses interpreter certification.
Valley Community Interpreters is committed to improving and increasing language access at all levels of New Mexican society. We do this by providing cultural competency and interpreter training to bilingual healthcare, community and emergency services, education professionals and bilingual community members.
Valley Community Interpreters is structured using an innovative hybrid business model. Valley Community Interpreters, LLC provides training for medical, social services and education professionals. The Bilingual Community Interpreter Training identifies, assesses and trains bilingual community members, with foundation support, to enter the interpreter profession, and provides mentoring and guidance to pursue work in the telephonic and video remote industry.
318 Isleta Blvd.