This toolkit provides resources and support to build language access as a core service for survivors with LEP. The tabs at the top link to:
- A step-by-step process for developing your first written Language Access Plan, and a guide to critical conversations to enhance an existing Language Access Plan.
- Tools to help you establish your program’s language access standards and make them part of your program’s day-to-day work, such as language skill assessments, interpreter code of ethics and confidentiality forms, and multilingual materials (I Speak cards, translated materials, etc.).
- These are management tools your program may use regularly; and direct advocacy tools for use by and with survivors with LEP.
- Descriptions and analysis of specific language access strategies such as language identification and interpreter services.
- Support to help you advocate for language access services throughout the community: training curriculum and systems advocacy guidance.
- Resources, such as federal law and guidance, sample plans, and promising practices to help you shape your efforts. These are informational resources you may need to build your own Language Access Plan and for systems advocacy.
Publish Date
May 2015