CHIA Standards Training in North Bay

CHIA's North Bay/Santa Rosa Chapter will offer the CHIA Standards Training Program module for interpreters from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. 

The presentation will be the third pilot of the presentation , which is designed to familiarize interpreters and bilingual staff members in the use of CHIA's California Standards for Healthcare Interpreters.  Co-presenters will include Julie Burns, Cris Eggers, and Margarita Holmes, who participated in the Training of Trainers workshop earlier this year. 

The Standards Training program is being developed by the CHIA Education Committee, which is now completing a one-hour administrator’s module.  After the piloting phase, both modules will be offered to health plans, hospitals, and clinics, who starting in January must comply with new state regulations requiring that interpreters be trained in professional standards. 
 
CHIA has instructed a corps of 28 prospective trainers in presenting the interpreters module through two "Train the Trainer" sessions earlier this year, and will train a smaller group to present the administrators module. For more information on the CHIA Standards Training program, please contact Don Schinske in the CHIA office at (916) 444-1506 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Please RSVP for the Feb. 5 event to North Bay Chapter Co-Chair Pat Hayes, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   or (707) 696-4789.

2009 Annual Education Conference

Friday and Saturday, March 20th and 21st at the Crown Plaza Cabana Hotel in Palo Alto