Training for Service Providers and Businesses
LANA Workshops:
Working Effectively with Interpreters
This workshop is designed to assist participants to work more effectively with interpreters when dealing with clients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. During the session we will review issues pertinent to provider – limited English proficient client/patient communication and ethical and legal requirements supporting use of professional interpreters. LANA can bring its existing training program to you, or we can tailor the training to your organization’s needs.
Call (207) 874-1000 ext. 311 to request the training for your organization.
Effective Use of Bilingual Skills
LANA can assist your bilingual staff in defining their bilingual role within their organization with a clear differentiation between the role of interpreter and bilingual worker. The training will be tailored to your needs.
Call (207) 874-1000 ext. 311 to request the training for your organization.
Culturally Responsive Practice - A Training Series for Educators and Service Providers:
Cross-Cultural Healing Traditions
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 30; 3:00–5:00
Location: Portland Public Schools Multilingual and Multicultural Center
171 Auburn Street, Portland.
Facilitator: Paul Johnson, DSW, LCSW, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Southern Maine
Traditional Western practice utilizes assessment, diagnosis and treatment to promote emotional well-being. In this workshop, healers from other cultures will share their notions of health and well-being as well as rituals and beliefs that support well-being in their families and communities. How these two different approaches could possibly be successfully integrated will also be examined.
More more information and to register, call (207) 874-8135.
Bridging Cultures: Reaching Common Ground with Diverse Clientele
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 13; 8:30–10:00 or 3:30–5:00
Presenter: Debra Rothenberg, MD, PhD, Assistant Program Director, Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program
Location: Portland Public Schools Multilingual and Multicultural Center
171 Auburn Street, Portland.
Western medical practitioners, educators, and social service providers learn to “see” the world in culturally specific ways that can—and often do—conflict with the ways clients from other cultural traditions conceptualize problems. This interactive workshop will give examples of such culture clashes both from the presenter’s personal experience as a physician-anthropologist and from the literature. We will then explore methods to improve cross-cultural understanding, thereby avoiding some of the pitfalls of these culture clashes.
More more information and to register, call (207) 874-8135.
Please check the Internet Resources section for more information on language access.