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Specialized Interpreting: Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Registration now available! Scroll down to enroll.

If you missed it the first time when we offered our webshops in 2018, here is the second opportunity to take advantage of the CATIE Center’s webshop, Specialized Interpreting: Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault.

Interpreting in domestic violence and sexual assault (DVSA) settings requires specialty knowledge and skills to be qualified to do this work. The information in this webshop, developed in collaboration with Deaf-centered DVSA service providers, will help you determine if this work is right for you now or in the future.

This webshop:

  • Need for qualified interpreters for DVSA work
  • Background knowledge about DVSA causes and impact
  • DVSA settings you may find yourself in
  • Information about trauma-informed care
  • Strategies for self-care
  • Narratives from survivors and interpreters that can inform our practice, and
  • A pathway to training to develop skills that will help you build your skills in this specialty

*This webshop is not comprehensive, and will not make interpreters qualified to do this work, but will lay out a foundation and a path for future training.

Cost: Free!

Register

Webshop now available!

Click here to enroll in DVSA!

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SLS COVID-19 Response:

We here at SLS highly value communication access. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected all of our lives. We are responding to these changes by maximizing safety while still prioritizing effective communication. We are happy to announce that SLS has adopted Virtual Video Interpreting (VVI) services. VVI services are available anywhere there is internet access, and in any setting where an interpreter is needed, such as school, court, hospital, doctor’s office, etc.


To all in our communities, we wish you to stay at home whenever possible, stay healthy, and stay safe! While we are still offering in-person interpreters as a last resort at this time, we want to partner with you in adhering to social distancing, and other suggested safe work practices. In this way we can all limit the risk to ourselves, to those in our households, and to those we work with. It is our sincere hope that we can successfully navigate this crisis together.


Let us provide you with interpreters for your SAFE appointments! Please click the tab and request further information on our VVI services.