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Archive for January, 2025

CCHI’s support for certificants and candidates affected by current and recent disasters

CCHI Commissioners and staff believe in supporting our certificants, candidates, and the interpreting profession as a cornerstone of our mission. We deeply care for those whose lives, families, and livelihoods have been impacted by recent and ongoing disasters. We understand the overwhelming challenges of rebuilding after such devastation and are here to help ease some of the burden.

To support our community, CCHI is committing $10,000 to assist certificants, affected by the natural disasters, with their renewal fees. This initiative reflects our unwavering dedication to standing with interpreters during times of need, ensuring they can continue their vital work of bridging communication and fostering understanding in every corner of society.

CCHI Commissioners offer the following support to the certificants residing in the areas affected by the wildfires in Southern California as well as those still recovering from the hurricanes in the Southeastern United States:

  1. The certification renewal deadline for the current four-year cycle*  is extended until September 1, 2025.
  2. All certificants in affected areas are eligible to receive a $50 discount towards their certification renewal fee. Please contact us at apply@cchicertification.org to request a disaster relief discount.

* For Southern California certificants affected by the fires: the extension and discount are applied if the renewal deadline is between January 1 – June 31, 2025. For certificants affected by the fall 2024 hurricanes in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina: if the renewal deadline is between September 25, 2024 – July 31, 2025.

CCHI Commissioners offer a 6-month extension to candidates residing in the areas affected by the wildfires and recent hurricanes for scheduling their exams.

Please contact us at info@cchicertification.org with questions (please use “Disaster Relief” in the subject line).

CCHI is looking for certified interpreters of any language to volunteer to create new questions for the CoreCHI exam

We are calling for volunteers to participate in creating new questions for the CoreCHI™ exam! Please fill out the application below and submit it by January 20, 2025. We are looking to convene 2 groups of volunteer Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) – (1) Item Writers and (2) Item Reviewers. Group 1 will work from January 30 through February 25, and Group 2 will work from February 12 through April 10.

CCHI will provide all the necessary orientation and training via online collaboration tools. All tasks will also be performed remotely via video conference calls and other online applications. Please read about the commitment below so that you understand the scope of work.

Please apply only if you are available on the specified days for live Zoom meetings.

Who should apply?

Our goal is to convene a diverse panel of SMEs, CCHI-certified interpreters, who represent healthcare interpreters in the U.S. in a comprehensive manner. We are looking for volunteers – practicing interpreters who have CoreCHI™, CoreCHI-P™, or CHI™ certification (this requirement is mandatory) – who:

  • have various years of experience – from 1 to 10+
  • work in different modalities and different healthcare settings
  • represent different regional varieties of their LOTE (Language Other Than English)
  • may also be managers (but still practicing interpreters)
  • are not trainers of introductory interpreter courses (but may be trainers of continuing education courses).

What are your commitments (if selected)?

  • Sign CCHI’s Confidentiality and Content Security Agreements. (Review our SME Participation Policies prior to applying.)
  • Live participation in two-hour meetings on the dates specified below and several hours of independent work
  1. Be able to complete a self-paced online orientation module between January 30 – February 8,which would require approximately 2-4 hours of time.
  2. Be available for live Zoom video conference meetings, of 2-hour duration each, at 8-10 pm Eastern Time on these dates:

Group 1 – Item Writers – one live meeting on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 (and writing 20 questions between Jan 30 and Feb 25)

Group 2 – Item Reviewers – six (6) live meetings on these Wednesdays:
February 26
March 5, 12, 19, 26
April 2

  1. Be available for independent remote assignments between the meetings.

This is a volunteer project. CCHI will not pay any honorarium for participation in this project. However, CCHI will grant 4 general CE instructional and 2 CE non-instructional hours for participation, and issue a voucher of $100 value that can be applied towards the certification renewal fee.

How to apply?

Click here to download CCHI’s SME Application in MS Word format and here to download it as a fillable pdf file (you’ll have to create a separate file for the essay and bio).

Please fill it out completely (choose the CoreCHI exam and indicate if you wish to be an item writer or item reviewer), and to submit, email the application (including 2 references) AND your current full resume, to solutions@cchicertification.org by 01/20/2025. Only electronically submitted, complete applications will be considered.

If you have any questions about this project or about the SME application, contact us at solutions@cchicertification.org.

You will be notified if you are selected to participate in this project by January 24, 2025.

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