Lend your voice as a volunteer interpreter!
Benefits of being a volunteer interpreter:
- Strengthen your interpreting and communication skills.
- Help low income/elderly/disabled people in need.
- Contribute to community capacity building and services.
- Learn and obtain experience in a professional environment.
- Obtain academic credits, if applicable.
- Build your resume for career, and credentials for graduate school applications.
- Fulfill your community service requirement at flexible hours.
- Learn about BHA internships and job opportunities.
Duties:
- Attend interpreter training and orientation.
- Interpret for BHA residents, applicants and/or staff during virtual or in person BHA hearings, eligibility screenings, resident meetings, and phone inquiries.
- Translate event flyers, notices, and vital documents for BHA residents, applicants and/or staff.
- Provide agency staff other language-related assistance as assigned.
- Comply with the agency’s rules and regulations.
Training & Orientation include:
- Interpreter’s fundamentals -- “What makes a good interpreter?”
- Overview of BHA rules, regulations, and expectations.
- Discussion of the duties of a BHA interpreter.
- Role play exercises for BHA specific scenarios.
- Helpful hints on cross-cultural communication and teamwork.