Where to find qualified interpreters for health care settings: CrossCurrents Summer 2004

CrossCurrents

Critical Link - an informative Canadian Web site with links to many interpreter services across the country. www.criticallink.org

Access Alliance Interpreter Service - a Toronto non-profit community health centre serving the multicultural community. Provides fee-based telephone or in-person interpretation for agencies and professionals. tel: 416 324-2731
MCIS Multilingual Community Interpreters Services - Toronto-based non-profit agency that provides interpretation services to agencies. Service is free for qualified violence against women, domestic violence court or hospital-based domestic violence programs. Otherwise, fee for service. www.mcis.on.ca
Riverdale Interpreters - provides fee-based quality language interpretation services to health care practitioners in hospitals, health clinics and private practice in and around Toronto. www.rivint.ca
cross Languages - a fee-based translation and interpretation service in London, Ontario, with special expertise in interpreting in health, legal and community settings. www.acrosslanguages.org
National Council on Interpreting in Health Care - U.S. multidisciplinary organization that promotes culturally competent professional health care interpreting. www.ncihc.org