REGION I
Christina Stevens, NIC Region I Representative
CEUs are always on the forefront of an The volunteer sponsors support RID’s Professional interpreter’s down time. Do I have enough? Development system by diligently checking on Where can I learn about this new topic? How can attendance and participation and by guiding I improve my skills? Will I get this done in time? teachers to develop clear educational goals as well In the last 5 years, and really the last two plus as assessment tools to monitor the transfer of years, the ability to find and attend workshops has knowledge during the event. changed. With our profession changing so are our abilities to attend workshops from presenters all Here in Region 1 we have many AC (Affiliate over the world. Interpreters are getting up at 5am Chapter) leaders who are providing safe and brave just to attend a workshop that starts at 9am EST. environments to begin tackling the hard work of Or staying up late to attend a west coast based Social Justice, Racism, and other -isms, within our workshop. Yet, have we work and ourselves. Also become complacent with “Do I have enough? Where can I in Region 1 we have new our workshops? Are we ideas being researched learn about this new topic? just taking this workshop and explored including How can I improve my skills?” just so we have the our keynote speaker at right number of CEUs to this summer’s virtual maintain our certification? OR are we advancing conference, Sociocracy for All. These workshops ourselves and taking workshops that challenge us are shared via email list serves within each AC and or inspire us? on social media. Do we as interpreters apply the same code of moral ethics to our learning as we do to our interpreting work? Do we arrive ready to learn and work and improve ourselves? Giving focus to the presenter? Or do we just let the webinar run in the background as we clean the kitchen? Our CMP volunteer committee works hard to set standards that our volunteer CMP sponsors follow.
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Since 2020, the state of Rhode Island has been engaged in a community-wide health system transformation initiative made possible through an innovative partnership between the Rhode Island Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (RICDHH) and Rhode Island College (RIC). In an effort to reduce health disparities and eliminate barriers to healthcare access experienced by Deaf,