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MAY 18TH 2024

GARID MEMBER APPRECIATION DAY(MAD)

GaRID is MAD about you!

Come to learn, renew, mingle, network, fellowship, make new friends, see old friends.  


Presenter: Dr. Suzette Garay


CEO Diversity Academy for Interpreters (DAI)


Moving from Allyship toward an Antiracist Approach for Interpreters

This 4-hour Antiracist workshop focuses on how to develop antiracist skills for effectively incorporating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) principals, specifically, moving from an allyship approach toward what to do and what not do when incorporating DEIB Antiracist actions. Participants will explore how biases and stereotypes form in our interpreter profession, do a self-analysis, and consider how these factors may impact their work toward becoming antiracist interpreters. Participants will have hands-on opportunities to practice with variety of scenarios representing racism, oppression, and further developing their individual basic antiracist skills into a plan of action.


*note* CEU information to follow shortly. 

Door Prizes

BUSINESS MEETING DURING FREE LUNCH, included in registration.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.


Dr. Suzette Garay- is a Deaf Person of Color (DPOC) and a third generational Latina(x) from South America, Nicaragua and a third member of a family who was born Deaf.  She holds the following degrees: BA, MA. PSY.S, and a Ph.D.  Her major areas of studies are Special Education with an emphasis on Deafness and Learning Disabilities, Psychology, and teaching of American Sign Language.  She is currently a retired Educational Psychologist who has worked with DHHDB+ children for more than 15+ years and currently teaches several online diversity & culturally responsive courses and through her own business at Diversity Academy and previously through the CAITE Behavioral Health Interpreter Program.  She also owns a private consultation practice working with many families, individuals, and private business owners about interpreting, accessibility, diversity, and advocacy with diverse DHHDB+ consumers.

Dr. Garay has the following qualifications: 25+ years of direct teaching, evaluating, and mentoring with Special Education students, ASL/Interpreter students, community/educational interpreters, and/or community business members whom use American Sign Language for communicating with their DHHDB+ consumers.  She also has a long history of invaluable personal experiences and success teaching, evaluating, and mentoring diverse deaf individuals and/or consumers from underprivileged socio-economic backgrounds.

She has taught distance education online courses and workshops in ASL Linguistics, Special Education, and disability social justice issues throughout the Midwest and at the international or national levels.  She is also a nationally certified American Sign Language Instructor and state certified master consultant and professional development trainer who enjoys working with families and very young children teaching them how to utilize American Sign Language with preverbal babies and those with communication disorders.  Dr. Garay can be reached for future workshops and/or consultations at www.thediversityacademy.com.


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Interpreting in the Domestic Violence Setting

  • 17 May 2014
  • 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Georgia Council for the Hearing Impaired (GACHI) 4151 Memorial Drive- Suite 103-B Decatur, GA 30032

Registration

  • If you are registering online there will be a $2.00 convenience fee. If you are writing a check it is $40.00
  • If you are registering online there will be a $2.00 convenience fee. If you are writing a check it is $50.00

Interpreting in the Domestic Violence Setting; Self Care: Alleviating the Effects of Vicarious Trauma 


Presenter:

Kristin Grace, LCSW, NIC

This Professional Studies program is offered for .55 RID CEUs.

Target audience: Working ASL/English Intepreters; this workshop will be presented in ASL. Content knowledge: Extensive 

Date: May 17, 2014
 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

Registration begins at 8:30 am.
~ Workshop begins promptly at 9:00 am.
*Please bring your own lunch*

DEADLINE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION: 5/16/14

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: 

ASL/English interpreters need to be prepared to balance compassion while thoughtfully maintaining the tenets of the NAD/RID CPC. Come learn how to act as a cultural mediator and not a helper. Learn the signs and symptoms of trauma, and nuances of the setting to achieve successful interpreting outcomes by minimizing linguistic errors and omissions. PRESENTER: Kristin Grace, LCSW, NIC hails from the great state of Illinois, where she worked at Chicago’s Rape Victim Advocates- Deaf program from 2001-2003 as a therapist and a certified Rape Crisis Counselor in the ER setting. She later achieved the LCSW (clinical license) and worked as a LCSW in a variety of social service environments such as private practice, DFACS and ADA State Monitoring. While simultaneously working as a clinician, Kristin worked as an ASL/English interpreter, predominantly in the medical and post-secondary settings. Kristin currently works in private practice as a LCSW for Deaf individuals and in the VRS setting as a VI. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, taking trips to the beach and learning about living green and environmental sustainability. 


GaRID Members: $40.00 Non-Members: $50.00

See registration form for details:


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