Professional Healthcare Interpreter Training

Connecting Worlds: Centeral Valley Version is a 48-hour professional healthcare interpreter training that meets the standards of the California Healthcare Interpreting Association (CHIA). Healthy House offers this training at locations across California’s Central Valley, most recently, Fresno, Merced, and Sacramento.

Healthy House provides language proficiency testing in the following languages. 

Arabic                             Hindi                           Pashto

Assyrian                         Hmong                        Portuguese

Cantonese                     Japanese                    Punjabi

Chinese                          Lao                             Spanish

Dari                                Mandarin                    Tagalog 

Farsi                               Mien                           Urdu                    

Healthy House offers you a large network of full-time and on-call interpreters. 

Our Language Bank is well known for its professional healthcare and general interpreting and translation services. 

Current Available Languages:

Arabic                             Hindi                           Pashto

Assyrian                         Hmong                        Portuguese

Cantonese                     Japanese                    Punjabi

Chinese                          Lao                             Spanish

Dari                                Mandarin                    Tagalog 

Farsi                               Mien                           Urdu   

Features: 

• In Person Interpreting 
• Telephone Interpreting
• After Hours Interpreting
• Audio Equipment for Simultaneous Interpreting during Conferences or Large Meetings
• Proofreading and Translation Services 

(*Beware of online translation programs. There is no replacement for a professionally translated document or brochure by a professional bi-cultural linguist who understands your target audience and the nuances of the subject. Each project is carefully proofread by a second translator at Healthy House to ensure the best possible results.) 

Food to FoRX's primary goal is to promote good health by encouraging people in the community to eat fruits and vegetables and other healthy foods to reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer. In partnership with the food bank, Shepherd of the Valley Community Garden, and local markets, Healthy House distributes food boxes with healthy and affordable recipes to participants in the Food to ForX program to remind them that a healthy diet is a very important factor in a long and healthy life. 

The Hmong Elder Group is a community support group that meets every Friday. Each week, the Hmong Elder Group is facilitated by  Healthy House staff members, who are linguistically and culturally competent. Each staff facilitator prepares discussion topics and engaging activities. Discussion topics can be related to health, wellness, finance, safety, family, hobbies, etc. Some of the activities prepared can be physical exercises, memory games, grounding activities, gardening, food preparation, etc. The Hmong Elder Group serves to support group members socially and emotionally, helping to reduce isolation. The group members are encouraged to reach out to staff members with any challenges they may be experiencing.  

The Healthy House Community Garden was established in 2019 and is located at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church. The garden has 100 raised garden beds. Each bed is tended to by a volunteer or Healthy House staff member and grows healthy fruits and vegetables. The Healthy House Community Garden supports the Food to FoRx program, which helps community members who are experiencing diet-related health issues like obesity, hypertension, diabetes, etc. Healthy House staff harvests 25% of the garden produce and prepares it for Food to FoRx members.

Sista CAMP ( Conversations About Motherhood and Parenting) is a weekly support group for mothers with kids, aged 0-17. Many are homeless or staying in rehab facilities. Part of our program is teaching this group of young mothers good parenting and maternal health and the powerful principles of understanding themselves and their children.

Healthy House is dedicated to provide culturally and linguistically responsive services to the many diverse ethnic groups in the Central Valley.  Professional healthcare interpreters require as much cultural knowledge as language skills. In fact, HH Language & Cultural Specialists have saved lives using their cultural knowledge to intuit, notice, explain, and negotiate cultural barriers which could impede essential healthcare.  

We offer Law Enforcement training on Abuse in Later Life to police, sheriff, District Attorney'' and Probation officers (to date having trained close to 200 officers in Merced County).  Finally , we host a monthly meeting entitled Coordinated Community Response to Abuse in Later Life to approximately 40 participating public, private, and social service agency partners, offering presentations on this issue and leading case discussions to help address the problem.  Law enforcement is always present.

We offer Law Enforcement training on Abuse in Later Life to police, sheriff, "District Attorney'' and Probation officers (to date having trained close to 200 officers in Merced County).  Finally , we host a monthly meeting entitled Coordinated Community Response to Abuse in Later Life to approximately 40 participating public, private, and social service agency partners, offering presentations on this issue and leading case discussions to help address the problem.  Law enforcement is always present.