Answering the Call – With Skill, Integrity, and Purpose

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In these challenging times, our communities are stepping up. Many have answered urgent calls to support others, including serving as volunteer interpreters/translators. This powerful response speaks to the heart of community care.

But interpretation is more than being bilingual.

It’s a profession grounded in ethics, standards, and accountability—because lives, livelihoods, and vital information are often on the line.

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Bridging Voices- Uniendo Voces is offering free interpretation workshops designed for:

 

• Community members volunteering as interpreters

• Agencies and organizations working with diverse language populations

• Anyone interested in learning how to interpret accurately and responsibly

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Workshop Topics:

• The role of the interpreter

• Introduction to ethics

• Best practices, tips, and common challenges

• Vocabulary building strategies

• How to manage real-life interpretation encounters

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We’re looking to partner with community organizations, agencies, and local groups interested in co-hosting these workshops. If your organization serves multilingual communities and wants to support accessible, accurate interpretation, let’s collaborate to bring this training to those who need it most.

Whether you can provide space, help with outreach or sponsor a workshop, we’d love to connect.

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As a trained, qualified and seasoned professional interpreter, I provide individual coaching services for interpreters of all levels. Coaching sessions are an investment in personnel and involve observation in meetings and then debrief sessions. There is nothing quite like the work that we do as interpreters. There are moments where all the elements are in sync, our memory is in great shape and our vocabulary just flows, and there are also moments where we forget words, we are easily flustered by the environment and we lose control of the flow of communication. It is important to acknowledge all of these experiences and there is no better way to improve than through feedback from real world situations Coaching will involve observation, evaluation and conversation, skill review and suggestions for further learning and application of skill sets.

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Call 805 420-8409 or email lena@bridgingvoices.net for pricing and scheduling.