Links

On-Line Links:

1. *Culturally & Linguistically -Appropriate healthcare Services (CLAS) Sites*	4. *Government Resources*
2. *Interpreter Training*	5. Health & Medicine Resources
3. On-line Medical Glossaries & Dictionaries	6. Ethno Medicine

Section 1:
Culturally & Linguistically-Appropriate healthcare Services (CLAS) Sites

http://www.clas-sd.org - The CLAS Room - This site serves as a resource for health care organizations in the area of Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service (CLAS) delivery. The CLAS Room is operated by Vista Community Clinic’s Cultural Awareness Program (CAP), (San Diego, California). The CAP program is a CHIA sponsor.

http://www.diversityrx.org - Resources for Cross-Cultural Health Care (Silver Springs, Maryland)

http://www.nhelp.org/race.shtml#ling - National Health Law Program web site focusing on language access policy and legal issues

http://www.accessproject.org/c_cams4.htm - LEP research & resources links from the Health Access Project of Brandeis University.

http://www.xculture.org - Cross Cultural Health Care Program (Seattle, Washington). This site also includes links the most well-known health care interpreter training program in the US.

http://www.leptaskforce.org/ The National LEP Advocacy Task Force is a group of over 300 stakeholders who actively support the laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of national origin because of language and cultural differences.

http://www.mc-mlmhs.org/ - The Center for Multicultural and Multilingual Mental Health Services (Chicago, Illinois) provides support to mental health professionals who work cross-culturally and cross-linguistically.

http://www.calendow.org - The California Endowment, which has funded CHIA. See: http://www.calendow.org/pub/frm_pub.htm - annotated bibliography - Multicultural Health: Setting the Stage for Innovative and Creative Approaches (July 1999)
See also the extensive list of community organizations funded by TCE, including many of CHIA's partner organizations in the TCE health care language access funding support area: http://www.calendow.org/links/frm_links.htm

http://mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/ Multicultural Health Communication Service - A statewide service based in South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service and funded by New South Wales Health, Australia.

http://www.georgetown.edu/research/gucdc/nccc/ -
The National Center for Cultural Competence seeks to address these issues through Training, technical assistance and consultation;
networking, linkages and information exchange; and knowledge and product development and dissemination.

http://www.serve.com/Wellness/culture.html Bridge To Wellness (a program of Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc.) List of principles in cultural competency for health care clinicians.

http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/Default.htm
Cultural Competence: A Journey

http://www.nursingworld.org/readroom/position/ethics/etcldv.htm
Cultural Diversity in Nursing Practice (American Nurses Association)

http://www.aap.org/policy/re9753.html - Culturally Effective Pediatric Care: Education and Training Issues (American Academy of Pediatrics)

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Section 2:
Interpreter Training Institutions

http://www.xculture.org/training/schedule/index.cfm Cross Cultural Health Care Program offers the Bridging The Gap Health Care Interpreter Training and a Train-the-Trainer program for this. This 40 hour program is perhaps the most established introductory health care interpreter training and has been presented across the US.
Contact Julie Burns, Training Manager, at julieburns7@earthlink.net

http://www.ccsf.cc.ca.us/Departments/Health_Science/interp.html
City College of San Francisco (CCSF) 15 college credit training program for health interpreters. This program is marketed statewide through the Regional Health Occupations Resource Center (RHORC)

http://www.mtsac.edu/college/community/schedule/spring_2002/healthcare_interpreting.pdf
Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, CA, (in LA County) also offers the CCSF 15 college credit training program for healthcare interpreting.

http://www.reedleycollege.com/academic/departments/peandh/heathcareinterpreter/default.htm
Reedley College Healthcare Interpreter Certification Program, 15 college credit program (started in CCSF) located in Reedley, California, 30 miles southeast of Fresno.

www.uclaextension.org/interpretation UCLA Extension Medical Interpreter Training. For information also contact: Marianne Kanter, Program Manager, Humanities, Social Sciences and Foreign Languages, UCLA Extension, 10995 LeConte Avenue, Suite 711, Los Angeles, CA 90024, Phone: (310) 825-1898, mkanter@unex.ucla.edu

http://www.ahschc.org/traindir2.htm - A listing of US and Canadian healthcare interpreter training programs (as of 1998) compiled by Cindy Roat and Linda Okahara and appearing on the Asian Health Services site (Oakland California)

http://www.miis.edu/gsti-about-dean.html - Monterey Institute of International Studies, Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation

http://www.deraaij.com/irt/ - A comprehensive listing of URLs from interpreter/translator training sites/schools/ colleges from around the world
maintained by Michelle de Raaij (translations@deraaij.com)

http://www.interpreting.com/ - Southern California School of Interpretation On-line (Santa Fe Springs, Corona and San Diego)

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Section 3:

Search Engines,
On-line Glossaries & Dictionaries

http://nursingworld.org/ojin/infocol/info_4.htm : this is one of the best current reviews of language resources on the Internet and features many links. Article by Barbara F. Schloman, PhD, AHIP, Director, Library Information Services, Libraries & Media Services, at Kent State University.

http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html : This project was commissioned by The EuropeanCommission(DG III) and executed by Heymans Institute of Pharmacology and Mercator School, Department of applied Linguistics.

http://www.altavista.com/ Alta Vista search. Change the language drop box to the language you are searching for to develop your 1st language terminology!

http://world.altavista.com/ Alta Vista Bablefish machine translation tool. ONLY OK for general gist or for a laugh as Bablefish mangles idioms.

http://www.google.com/advanced_search - useful for terminology in non-English languages.

http://www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search/search.html Search Engines worldwide - lists search engines by country

http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/index.html - Search Engine Colossus offers you links to search engines from 149 countries around the world! Conduct exhaustive web searches. Search the web using your choice of language. Locate your new favorite search engines.

http://www.nlsearch.com Northern Lights search engine - useful for scientific and medical web entries

http://www.useekufind.com/medres.htm - a directory of medical resources, glossaries and dictionaries online.

http://www.tringa.com/ - includes Slee's Health Care Terms series created to provide a guide to the terminology, acronyms, and jargon used in all aspects of healthcare — everything an informed person needs to know to understand today's complex world of health and healthcare.

CHIA Members: Debora Slee of Tringa Press is extending a special offer of a $5 discount on your next order from Tringa Press, requiring only that they mention their membership in the California Healthcare Interpreters Association. (Want to become a CHIA member? click here)

http://eurodic.ip.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/EuroDicWWW.pl - EuroDicAuton - translation of specialized terms, including health terms from and into any European language

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ - includes 230 language dictionaries and a medical dictionary

http://www.lai.com/glossaries.html - glossaries by language, from Afrikaans to Yiddish, as well as specialist dictionaries

http://www.achoo.com/search/achoo.asp - The Achoo medical search engine also includes a link to MedLine, the most useful English language medical search engine: http://www.achoo.com/search/medline.asp

http://www.diversityresources.com/ - diversity resources

http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/7467/acronym/acrM.htm - Acronyms for Health Information sites

http://www.atmhn.unimelb.edu.au/organisations/organisations.html
- Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network

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Section 4:
Government Resources

http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ - California Department of Health Services

http://www.dhs.ca.gov/director/omh/index.htm California Department of Health Office of Multicultural Health

http://www.firstgov.gov - The portal for any other US federal government sites

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/ - Office for Civil Rights

http://www.hhs.gov/topics/minority.html - Office for Minority Health

http://raceandhealth.hhs.gov/ - Initiative to Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Health (in 6 diagnostic areas)

http://www.nih.gov/ - National Institutes of Health, which also has
http://nccam.nih.gov/ - the National Center for complementary and alternative medicine, among many other sites.

http://www.hcfa.gov/ - Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the federal agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), as well as administering the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
http://www.hcfa.gov/hipaa/hipaahm.htm

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Section 5:
Health & Medicine Resources

Translated SARS Patient Education materials available from Public Health- Seattle and King County Refugee Health Access and Interpreter Program (Seattle, Washington) (thanks to Shari Wilson). These documents now online on the Public Health-Seattle and King County SARS website:

All languages for the Fact Sheet at: http://www.metrokc.gov/health/sars/sarsfacts.htm
All languages for Handwashing at: http://www.metrokc.gov/health/sars/handhygiene.htm
All languages except English for the Guidelines and Recommendations at: http://www.metrokc.gov/health/sars/pubadvisories.htm

For translated health education materials, one of the best sites so far is:

http://www.multilingual-health-education.net/#top Canada's multi-language resource of high-quality translated information, for professional health-care providers and their clients. This site is a collaborative effort by 19 health and immigrant services organizations in British Columbia's lower mainland.

EthnoMed - University of Washington (Seattle) site for foreign-language health, ethnocultural health and medicine site links click here!

http://www.excite.com/health/for_professionals/ - Health for Professionals listings on Excite! (similar pages exist on other search engines)

http://www.paho.org/ - Pan American Health Organization - the Regional office of the World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/home-page/

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