How to Work with Interpreters

October 4, 2018, 8:30am-4:30pm
2101 N Front Street, Governor's Plaza North, Bldg #2
Harrisburg, PA 17110

AUDIENCE

Court personnel, judges, victim advocates, law enforcement, prosecutors, SANEs, and allied professionals.

SUMMARY

This free, full-day training, How to Work with Interpreters, educates court personnel and service providers to work effectively with interpreters to assist survivors of interpersonal violence and other crimes. This interactive workshop also includes a brief introduction to language access laws, and is ideal for professionals who work with interpreters - or would like to learn more about how to work with interpreters - to help serve their clients and constituents.

PRESENTER

Marjory A. Bancroft, MA

Marjory Bancroft is the founder and Director of Cross-Cultural Communications (CCC), the only national training agency for community, legal and medical interpreting with more than 290 licensed trainers in 37 U.S. states, Washington, DC, Guam and six other countries. She holds a BA and MA in French linguistics from Quebec City and advanced language certificates from universities in Spain, Germany, and Jordan. She has lived in eight countries and studied seven languages. In addition to interpreting, Marjory has taught translation, English and French for universities in Canada and Jordan; immigrant schools; continuing education; and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC. For three years she managed a nonprofit language service of 200 interpreters and translators. The lead author of the field’s only comprehensive textbooks, she has also authored or co-authored numerous training manuals, trainer guides and other publications.

She speaks and keynotes widely at conferences across the U.S. and abroad, has sat on national and international committees and was the world Project Leader for an ISO International Standard on interpreting.

Trauma-informed interpreting

Marjory has a long history of volunteering or working in victim services, for two hotlines, a sexual assault center, a torture treatment center, in local and national victim advocacy, and for the U.S. Office for Victim of Crimes. She co-founded The Voice of Love Project which developed a five-day training called Healing Voices on how to interpret for survivors of torture, war trauma and sexual violence. The national voice for trauma-informed interpreting, she is also the lead author of the prominent training program, Breaking Silence: Interpreting for Victim Services.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Parking at PCAR is free.

Lunch will be on your own. A list of local restaurants will be provided, but you are also welcome to bring your lunch. You will have access to a refrigerator and microwave, if needed.

Questions?

For questions about registration only, please contact Erin Levine-Krynock at elevine-krynock@pcar.org or 717-728-9740 x106.
For all other questions, please contact Karen Galbraith at kgalbraith@pcar.org at 717-728-9740 x138.