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CHIA Health Interpreter Standards:
California Standards for Healthcare
Interpreters: Ethics, Protocols
& Guidance on Interpreter Roles &
Interventions
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February, 2003: Standards now available through The California Endowment website!! The Endowment is reprinting the standards document and will be mailing out in April/May. September 20, 2002: New CHIA standards now available online! August, 2002: Full
standards released at September 28 CHIA conference!
June, 2002: The Committee was finalizing the last details of
the Standards document contents, now in 21st Draft, and presented the document for
final review by the CHIA Board at the end of June. The document builds on the
feedback from interpreters in focus groups and from the website. The document will be published,
both in hard copy and here on the CHIA website by the end of September, in time for
the CHIA 2nd Annual conference! (Click
here for conference info!) March, 2002: The 4 focus groups were tape recorded and transcribed, and analyzed by Professor Claudia Angelelli, PhD, of San Diego State University. Her report appears on this site. (click here for report!) (report is 32 pages in length and is in Adobe PDF format) February, 2002: Dr. Claudia Angelelli, San Diego State University, conducted an analysis of the transcripts of the focus groups. Her preliminary findings, in a Slide presentation appears here. (click here for her preliminary report!) (report is in Adobe PDF format.) December, 2001: An initial set of feedback comments were presented to the Committee by Niels Agger-Gupta. (click here for this document in Adobe PDF format) These comments are being further analyzed by Dr. Angelelli and are also being incorporated into further versions of the standards.
November, 2001: 4 Focus groups on the CHIA Standards were held
in Los Angeles, Fresno, Oakland and San Diego in November, 2001.
The protocols for the study appear on this site.
The June 23 and July 21, 2001 Chapter meetings at Chjldren's Hospital Oakland and LA Care featured one-hour dialogs about the feedback document presented by CHIA’s Standards & Certification Committee Co-Chair, Ann Chun and CHIA E-D Niels Agger-Gupta, PhD. The final draft version will be taken to a series of focus groups in the different CHIA Chapter regions in November. The California Standards: Ethical Principles, Protocols and Guidance on Interpreter Interventions and Roles, will form the core of a movement toward interpreter accreditation, training and ultimately, certification. The Committee is aware of the health interpreter certification which exists (Washington State) and is in development (Massachusetts). The MMIA has begun a pilot of a medical interpreter certification process. CHIA will be working with the MMIA over the next year to establish a collaborative relationship around medical interpreter certification. This is a very complex area, since, as NCIHC Co-Chair Cindy Roat has written in the ATA Journal, how does one test for languages where there is no or only very recently a written form of the language? There needs to be very sensitive development of this area over the next year or more... More information will be posted here as it develops! The Standards & Certification Committee is an expert committee from across the state of California and consists of: Chair: Ann Chun, former CHIA Board member; Cultural Access Specialist, Alameda County Commission on Families & Children; Co-Chair: Elizabeth Nguyen, interpreter; CHIA Board member; LA Care Health Plan; and committee members: |
DRAFT California StandardsThe new Standards document:
will be released at the end of September and will be available online at that time!! |
Other Standards: |
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