December 21, 2018

Washington, DC
Woburn, MA

Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI)
Cross Cultural Communication Systems, Inc™ (CCCS, Inc™)

CCHI has just received an amazing gift this holiday season – a most generous contribution to our EtoE study of interpreting cognitive skills from Cross Cultural Communication Systems, Inc™.

Many interpreters know of CCCS, Inc™ through seeing their representatives at various interpreting conferences and by taking their in-depth online and in-person interpreting courses, as well as an oral online Language Assessment for bilingual providers on language proficiency and their knowledge in healthcare and/or mental health terminology. The organization’s mission is to provide qualified cultural-linguistic services to healthcare, educational, legal and business, by creating a seamless environment of teamwork and collaboration between customers, freelancers and staff members, so that together they can continue providing innovative, respectful, and reliable quality interpretation, translation and training services to a diverse population with regional, organizational and individual needs.

“CCHI Commissioners are deeply moved to receive this gift from such an established interpreter training organization who is known for their leadership and support of interpreters’ professional development, says CCHI’s Chair Margarita Bekker. – This revolutionary study is only possible if all stakeholders get involved. We hope other companies and training organizations would join our project as well.”

Zarita Araujo-Lane, LICSW, President of CCCS, Inc, explains, “Our organization and I, personally, have always believed in doing everything at the most professional level. It is time that the interpreting profession engages in serious, statistically valid research. In the age of evidence-based healthcare and big data analysis in all aspects of our lives, we need to step up and start making decisions based on data, too. I commend CCHI for taking the lead and planning the study that will help educators, interpreters, employers understand what cognitive skills make a person an interpreter. It is a brave move since the outcome is unknown. Another aspect of the EtoE project that we wholeheartedly support is its inclusiveness and social-justice approach to certification and testing. We agree that interpreters of all languages should have an opportunity to prove their professional qualifications.”

To contribute to the EtoE Project, join our crowdfunding campaign at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/interpreter-testing-revolution#/.

To learn more about the EtoE Study, visit http://cchicertification.org/etoe/.

December 15, 2018

Washington, DC
New York, NY

Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI)
TransPerfect

We are excited to start the holiday season celebrations with the announcement of five recipients of 2018 Fall cycle of the “Discover Healthcare Interpreting” CoreCHI™ Scholarship. This scholarship supports certification of interpreters of languages for which only the CoreCHI™ certification is currently available. We would like to take this opportunity to thank TransPerfect and Jonathan Levy, personally, for the contribution to our inaugural scholarship.

TransPerfect is the world’s largest privately held language services provider with the mission to provide the highest quality language services to leading businesses worldwide. TransPerfect is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 17100:2015, ensuring the highest level of quality and service for all projects. Its global group of companies completes over 50,000 projects per year and works with many of the world’s most recognizable enterprises.

The Fall 2018 recipients of the “Discover Healthcare Interpreting” CoreCHI™ Scholarship, sponsored by TransPerfect, are:

1. Seyma Albarino (French, IL)
2. Tila Chan Dhimal (Nepali, PA)
3. Nou Hli Lee (Hmong, MN)
4. Natalya V. Ishenin (Russian, OR)
5. Hien Thithu Tran (Vietnamese, MO)

CCHI and TransPerfect commend the achievements and the commitment to professional success of the scholarship winners. We wish them the best of luck on their testing and certification journey.

CCHI Commissioners and staff
TransPerfect management and staff

Information about the scholarship is available here.