The purpose of highlighting students during the week is to bring awareness to our employees about the accomplishments of deaf students. There are many deaf students in California who are doing things to enhance their lives and the lives of others, without allowing being deaf to hinder their success. We want to showcase those students.

Therefore, we need a few students to highlight. We would like a brief description about the student including his or her accomplishments, goals, and activities, and any other information that sets him or her apart from other  students. We would also like to include a photo. Please submit this information to me, via e-mail no later than September 13.

Click here to find a parent permission and release form. This will need to be mailed to the address below, as we will need the original signature.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you for your commitment to our celebration.

Nancy

Nancy Grosz Sager
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Programs Consultant
California Department of Education
916 327-3868 voice
916 993-3023 or 866-371-6722 vp
916 445-4550 fax
nsager@cde.ca.gov

CSUS will be hosting interpreter workshops on April 10, 2010.  Please hold the date for yourself, mentees, students, or other professionals.

Similar to the grant that brought Peter Cook to town, CSUS  has been awarded another grant to bring Windell “Wink” Smith Jr.,  the CEO of Project N.A.D.I.N.E (similar to our NorCal but in OKC) to Sacramento.   Windall will be hosting a CODA performance on April 9th  including both a free performance for all CSUS students and an evening performance on April 9 for the general public.  CSUS will be selling tickets to the public performance.

Currently, the plan is to have two workshops on Saturday. The first workshop will  focus  on Idioms and the second one will focus on the NIC.  Windall is working on securing RID CEUS for both workshops now.

I know it is a long ways away, but just thought you might like to know and maybe plan ahead :0)

Hands waving!

(Submitted by Lisalee Egbert)

For more information contact Lisalee Egbert – legbert@csus.edu

Slip away to a place that allows you to breathe, meditate & find your inner you. Relax and enjoy inner and outer peace in a beautiful and spacious property nestled in the gorgeous redwoods. Step out of the norm and experience a refreshing, peaceful and welcoming opportunity.

When: August 6-8, 2010 (Fri, 3:00 – Sun, 12:30)

Where: Santa Cruz (www.medicinebuddha.org)

More info: contact interpreter@healthyceus.org

Includes:

All organic meals

Classes: Yoga, Meditation, Qi Gong, Nutrition, and more

(15 hours of coursework ~ totaling 1.5 CEUs*)

Accommodations range from per person: $320 (dorm) $350 (double)$440 (single)

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION=$20 off

NON-INTERPRETERS=$50 off

There MUST be 15 people for the trip to be a “go”

$150 deposit required by July 15th (non-refundable unless trip is canceled)

*1.5 ceus pending RID/CMP approval

Interpreted Performance brought to you by The Nature of Interpreting, llc.
Interpreters: Tracy Brennan and James Henderson

Direct from its smash hit engagement in London (2009), San Francisco plays host to the U.S. Premiere of PETER PAN, a spectacular new stage productions of J.M. Barrie’s classic story. Conceived by an award-winning creative team and featuring twenty-two actors, stunning puppets, epic music, and dazzling flying sequences surrounded by breathtaking video. The world’s first 360-degree video projection for live theater flies both cast and audience over Edwardian London.

Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: On the Embarcadero across the street from the Ferry Building in San Francisco
More information: http://www.peterpantheshow.com/

Box Office: at 1-888-772-6849 (Daily, 10am-6pm) Reserve your tickets early to assure your seats Section D, Rows F-L will be reserved for viewing the sign language interpreters

Classifiers in the Classroom

with presenter
Nikki Horrell
June 26, 2010
9am to 4pm

Click here for PDF Flier with complete information and registration!

Held at:
NorCal Center on Deafness
4708 Roseville Road, Suite 112
North Highlands, CA 95660

City College will honor its newest graduates on May 16 at the main campus cafeteria with an extended graduation-anniversary ceremony starting at 11 a.m. Since 1997, over 600 health care interpreters have graduated from the local program and many of them are now serving non/limited-English speaking communities throughout the bay area. These multicultural professionals represent a wide diversity of languages including Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Arabic, Russian, Spanish, Amharic and Tigrinya.

The need for well-trained linguistically and culturally competent health care interpreters continues to grow as immigrant populations also grow. In SF, nearly half of the population speaks a language other than English, and many of them are non- or limited-English speakers. In Alameda and Contra Costa counties respectively, nearly one-third and one-fourth of the population speaks languages other than English.

While the training program now offers a new career path to students with multicultural and multilingual skills, the fundamental objective of providing language access to ensure quality and equitable health care has become more relevant than ever before. Federal, state and independent regulatory agencies are increasingly requiring health care providers to offer interpreting services to patients with non-/limited-English proficiency.

“The importance of ensuring equitable, patient-centered, and safe care has been our motivation all along,” said Gayle Tang, Kaiser Permanente Senior Director of National Linguistic & Diversity Infrastructure, and cofounder of the Health Care Interpreter Certificate Program.

The program has been recognized through two recent awards that Kaiser Permanente received for innovation and community leadership. These awards by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) validate the work of the trained professionals who facilitate communication between patients and their English-speaking health care providers.

Today, May 1, International Workers Day is celebrated in most every country. As attestation of the program’s multiculturalism, we issue this press release on this special day of remembrance throughout the world. Happy International Workers Day!

Carlos Garcia

HCI CCSF Graduate Class of 2010
LINKEDIN
http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosgarciamedicalinterpreter

FACEBOOK
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=ru#!/profile.php?id=100000908490899

Contact: Nora Goodfriend-Koven
(415) 452-5158
ngoodfri@ccsf.edu

There will be a town hall meeting on Monday April 26, At 6:00pm to discuss the bill AB 2072, which is currently on the California Legislative floor. The meeting will be held at the UC Davis Cancer Center located at 4501 X Street, Sacramento.

The purpose of this meeting is to:

1. explain AB 2072, the people behind this bill, and what to expect if it passes the way it is;
2. explain about the legislative process, what we have done already, and what to expect;
3. explain about how people can help (Californians and non-Californians);
4. questions & answers to clear up any confusion or misunderstanding.

Please plan to come and show your support!

They are expecting over 400 interpreters. Earn up to 3.5 CEU’s.

Region V Conference Schedule:
(Information received from RID Region V)

The conference schedule is now available online!  We have a great program for the 2010 Region V Conference!  Sharon Neumann-Solow will be in Salt Lake for the keynote and a plenary session, Anna Witter-Merithew has been sponsored by the California Administrative office of the Courts for a 6-hour Legal Workshop and Lisa Burkhardt is being sponsored by the VRS Interpreting Institute and Sorenson Communications to present a 6-hour Mentoring Workshop.  We will also have Deafhood Yoga with Kristen Weiner twice a day and lots more!  Earn up to 3.5 CEUs!!  Check out the rest of our program:

• Interpreting in Violent Arenas (Duran)
• Six Steps to Success:  Achieving Certification (and anything else in life) (Cassell)
• ASL Lab (Lynn); Conditionals:  How Many Do You Know?  How Many Do You Teach? (Lessard)
• Interpreters:  Let’s Talk About Us (Castalia & Veltri)
• Ethics in Educational Interpreting (Hadley)
• Interpreterhood Elevated: Understanding Hearing Privilege (Bryant)
• INTERPRETER EDUCATION, NEW, DIFFERENT++ HOW? (Pollock)
• How to Give Constructive Feedback (Behunin)
• The Professional Path for Seasoned Interpreters: Reconsidering and Recommitting to the Journey (Castalia)
• The Physics of Processing Time: A New Model (Boam)
• Knowing What They’re Going to Say Before They Say It: Using Genre Recognition to Improve Your Predictive Skills (Green)
• Interpreting Multimedia Presentations: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Woods)
• Classifier Acquisition (Lessard)
• The ABC’s of Personality and Interpreting: Enjoying Our Similarities and Embracing Our Differences (Buchan & Kroener)
• The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox (Lerner)
• Harnessing the Power of Entrepreneurial Thinking and Intuition to Create a Successful Small Business or Freelance Practice (Richmond)
• Service Learning: Active and Responsible Community Participation (Volk)
• A Workplace Takes on the Gap: Expanding Horizons in the Approach to Improved Interpreter Readiness (Bolding)
• Development of an Oncology Training Program for Interpreters (Nakaji)
• Understanding Deafhood: Becoming a Great Ally (Say)
• Nouning Verbs? Parts of Speech for ASL Interpreters (Woods)
• The History of Interpreter Educators (Ball)
• The CPC and Social Media: Ethics in the Time of Facebook (Morgaine)
• Speak and Spell: How to Produce and Spell Foreign Names and Words (Green)
• De-mystifying the “It:” What a Superior VRS Interpreter Does (Oldfield

Find the schedule, workshop descriptions, and presenter bios on our website at
www.utrid.org/regionv