The Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters needs your expertise

The healthcare interpreter profession is being defined. Your input is critical! I am asking you to do two things today: (1) click on the link below to complete our survey and (2) send the survey to every interpreter you can reach.

Here’s why:

This is the moment that you have been waiting for. This is the reason you joined the CCHI Community. Last September, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI) was created with the mission to develop and administer a national, valid, credible, vendor-neutral certification program for healthcare interpreters. Today, we are asking for your voice, your perspective, so we can develop a certification program that reflects your needs.

A thorough and accurate definition of the profession as it exists today will be the foundation of our certification. We must understand the entire breadth of our profession, everything that interpreters are doing, including where and how they are providing services. For the definition of the profession to be truthful and without bias, it must come from the profession itself. It must come from you!

A panel of interpreters developed this survey to gather data from thousands of interpreters, their supervisors/managers and interpreter trainers across the country. The results from this survey will define the profession and provide the roadmap to create a valid and credible certification program.

Here's how:

1. If you are an interpreter, interpreter supervisor/manager or interpreter trainer, click on the link at the end of this message and complete the survey - today. This link is unique to you, so please do not forward this link to anyone else.

2. Forward this email to every interpreter, interpreter supervisor/manager or interpreter trainer you can reach. Ask them to click on this general link http://bit.ly/CCHI_Survey to complete the survey.

We have to get it right. We absolutely need your input to do this!

This survey will close at 5:00 P.M. EST on February 2, 2010, but do not wait until the end. Please click on the link below and take about 45 minutes and complete the survey today!  Then push your forward button and send this message to your colleagues.

Mara Youdelman
CCHI Chair

Follow the directions below for your personal link to the survey:

Tags: Healthcare interpreter, survey
Topics: Health Care, Language