OLA Posts

Language Access Advisory Council monthly meeting, Thursday, January 14, 2016 @ 2:00 P.M. to 3:30 P.M. at Director’s Conference room 320, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, 830 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. This meeting is cancelled due to lack of quorum.

Language Access Advisory Council monthly meeting, Wednesday, December 09, 2015 @ 3:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. at Director’s Conference Room 320, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, 830 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Meeting Agenda 12/09/2015

Language Access Advisory Council monthly meeting, Wednesday, November 18, 2015 @ 9:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. at UI Administrative Conference room 325, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, 830 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Meeting Agenda 11/18/2015  This meeting was cancelled due to lack of quorum.

Bridging the Gap (BTG) Training for Medical and Health Care Interpreters – November 6,7, 13, 14 & 21, 2015 – University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo (UHH), Big Island.  This is a 5-day course (40 hours) from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM conducted by Mary Santa Maria, MS/MPH, designated official trainer for the Bridging the Gap ...
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8th Annual Hawaiʻi Conference on Language Access – Friday, August 14, 2015  This conference presented the challenges to achieving language access and social justice for Hawaiʻi’s residents from the Compact of Free Association (COFA) nations, (the Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei, Yap, Chuuk, and Kosrae); the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and the Republic of ...
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Language Access & Law Enforcement March 9-13, 2015 Workshop Series for State & County Law Enforcement Personnel – featured speakers are Alyssa Lareau, Esq., Staff Attorney, Federal Coordination and Compliance Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. and Deputy Chief Lyn Tomioka, Chief of Staff, San Francisco Police Department, CA.  Workshops will ...
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Translation of Vital Documents 2-day workshop for agencies, conducted by Kleber Palma, Director, New York City Department of Education Translation and Interpretation Unit.  Thursday & Friday – January 22-23, 2015 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM @ King Kamehameha Wing Auditorium & Lounge, Queen’s Medical Center, 1301 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

Translation Workshop January 2015 – Language Access Law Basics – OLA – Rebecca Gardner, J.D.

OLA – Translation of Vital Documents Serafin Jun Colmenares, Jr., Ph.D._ January 2015 Questions on workshop content?  Contact Office of Language Access: (808) 586-8730 or email address: [email protected]

Court Interpreter Workshop – Dec 5 and 6 – Agenda