Event: Tomorrow: Talk by Laura Gonzales
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Working with multilingual community members in healthcare contexts
May 26th from 12:00-1:00
About the presentation
In this presentation, Gonzales will share examples from her collaborations with Indigenous language interpreters and translators and other minoritized language speakers to present tips and strategies for collaborating with multilingual community members in healthcare contexts. While healthcare providers are increasingly working with language lines and other translation services to provide language access, it is important to expand training opportunities for healthcare practitioners to effectively work with multilingual communities. A language line or written translation will not be effective if healthcare practitioners are not properly trained to communicate with multilingual community members through these services. This presentation will include new frameworks and orientations for engaging with multilingual community members in healthcare contexts.