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Archive for July, 2024

Spring 2024 ETOE Scholarship Award Winners

July 15, 2024

Washington, DC

Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI)

We are delighted to announce the five recipients of the inagugural (Spring 2024) cycle of the ETOE™ Scholarship! This scholarship supports interpreters who wish to take their CoreCHI certification to the next level with the performance-based CoreCHI-P credential. This scholarship cycle is sponsored by the Commissioners of CCHI.

The Spring 2024 recipients of the ETOE™ Scholarship are:

1. Amudu Bahati Jean Pierre Salongo (Kinyarwanda, NY)
2. Chudan Li (Cantonese, CA)
3. Jacob Hogan (ASL, OR)
4. Jay Prasad (Nepali, TX)
5. Valentina Torres (Mixteco, CA)

CCHI celebrates these awardees’ accomplishments as well as their commitment to professional success. They have much to be proud of, and we wish them the best of luck on their testing and certification journey.

CCHI Commissioners and Staff

CCHI Opens Nominations for 4 Commissioner Positions

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters is opening nominations for four Commission positions for a three-year term beginning in October 2024:

  • Commissioner – 4 vacancies

Nominees for Commissioner must represent a stakeholder group of healthcare interpreters, healthcare providers who work with interpreters, healthcare interpreting industry, or field of language access to health care. Before nominating, please review the expectations of the CCHI Commissioner and the criteria for selecting Commissioners. Also, please read the CCHI Policies for Commissioners at http://cchicertification.org/uploads/CCHI_Policies_for_Commissioners.pdf.

You may nominate yourself or someone else. If you nominate someone, prior to submission of the nomination, that individual must agree to the nomination and to serve for a term of three (3) years.

Nominations must be submitted on the Nomination Form (click to download as a PDF file OR as a MS Word file) as an attachment via email with the subject “CCHI Commissioner nomination” by 8:00 p.m. EDT on August 5, 2024 to: solutions@cchicertification.org. 

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