Quarterly Open Call on Mental Health Interpreting



Organized by the Outreach Committee of
the National Council on Interpreting in Health Care (NCIHC)



Join us on Friday, December 7 for a discussion on
Interpreting in Mental Health: What's Different?



The December 2007 NCIHC Open Call, will explore how mental health
interpreting differs from interpreting in strictly medical settings. You
will hear from a Certified Mental Health Interpreter from Alabama as
well as from the developers of two major training programs for
interpreters in mental health. Open discussion with colleagues from
around the country will follow



Call date: Friday, December 7, 2007

Time: Sign-on starting at 8:50 A.M. PACIFIC STANDARD TIME. The
call itself will run from 9:00 am- 10:30 am PST (11:00 am - 12:30
pm CST, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm EST)

Program: The call will start with short presentations from:

Brian McKenny, ASL interpreter certified for Mental Health
Interpreting in the State of Alabama will discuss how mental health
interpreting differs from interpreting in other settings.

Dr. DJ Ida from the National Asian American Pacific Islander
Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA) will describe a training
for mental health interpreters developed by a national
consortium and currently being piloted in California.

Cathy Mayton-Collins, Director of Social Work at the Mohawk
Valley Psychiatric Center in Utica, NY will describe a
training for interpreters in mental health developed in
coordination with the Multicultural Association of Medical
Interpreters (MAMI) of Central New York.

A discussion will follow about how interpreting for mental
health may differ from strict medical interpreting, what
special skills are needed by mental health interpreters, and how
providers adjust their techniques to work with interpreters in mental
health settings.

Dial-in Number: 712-432-2222

Access Code: 391510

Cost: The price of your individual long-distance call.

Invitations: No registration necessary. Open to the first
50 people to sign on to the call.

Minutes: Minutes of the call will be posted to the NCIHC
website and listserv.

Future Calls (same time):

February 8, April 4, and June 6: topics to be determined.





Conference call protocols

Having a productive call with 50 people on the line is no easy task! You
can make it easier for

everyone by respecting the following rules during the conference call:



1. No speakerphones: they create feedback when 50 lines are in use
at once.



1. No cell phones: they also create connectivity problems.



1. Please don't put us on "hold"; that often triggers music on the
line. Instead, press #6 first, which will mute your line. To un-mute the
line later, press #6 again.



1. If you have a lot of background noise in your office, please
press #6 to mute your line. To un-mute the line later, press #6 again.



The NCIHC Outreach Committee organizes quarterly open calls on specific
topics in order to:
1) collect and transmit the expertise of practitioners in the field to
the NCIHC Board and Committees, 2) provide practitioners in the field
with new information relevant to their work, and 3) support the exchange
of ideas between practitioners in the field.



For more information, please contact Cindy Roat, Co-chair of the
Outreach Committee
at cindy.roat@... or 206-546-1194.





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