Interpretation Technical Assistance & Resource Center (ITARC)

• Developing a Language Plan for Your Agency – Developing a language plan for your agency.
• Resource Guide for Advocates & Attorneys on Interpretation Services for Domestic Violence Victims, 2016 – The Interpretation Resource Guide is a collection of information, tips, tools, and resources on working with interpreters.
• Language Plan Template, 2016 – A basic template that can be used and adapted to assist agencies in creating a plan to provide interpretation and translation services.
• Language Plan: Considerations & Recommendations for Advocates Supporting Survivors of Violence, 2014– Interpreters fulfill a critical role in enhancing victim and community safety and increasing perpetrator accountability. Victim support services must have access to trained and qualified interpreters, to ensure that crimes are reported, investigated, and prosecuted. This brief provides recommendations for victim support service providers on how to effectively communicate and support victims with limited-English proficiency.
  
• COVID-19 Translated Court Notification – COVID-19 notification translated into Arabic, Hindi, Haitian-Creole, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
• Interagency Language Roundtable Self Assessments of Speaking, Listening, and Reading Proficiency – Language fluency self-assessments that are intended to guide those who have not taken a formal speaking, listening, and reading test. The assessment provides an estimate of your speaking, listening, and reading ability.
  • • Speaking Assessment
    • Listening Assessment
    • Reading Assessment

• Principles for Interpreters in Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Abuse and Human Trafficking Settings, 2024 – Principles that provide guidance to interpreters on how their perceptions and actions affects interpreting, specifically for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, abuse, and human trafficking.
• Ensuring Meaningful Access to Services for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors – Presentation for advocates on how survivors of trauma and language intersect.
• Hotpeachpages – Domestic and sexual abuse information in over 115 languages 

• Considerations When Using Interpreters for Victims with Limited English Proficiency – Tip sheet on working more effectively with interpreters, when interviewing a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or dating violence.
• How to Address Problems with Interpretation – Tip sheet on how to address poor interpretation.
• Interpretation Services – Tip sheet on finding interpreters.
• Serving Individuals Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deaf-Blind and Do Not Use American Sign Language 
• Working with Interpreters – Tip sheet on how to prepare for and more effectively work with interpreters.
• Principles for Interpreters in Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Abuse and Human Trafficking Settings, 2024 – Principles that provide guidance to interpreters on how their perceptions and actions affects interpreting, specifically for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, abuse, and human trafficking.
• Resource Guide for Advocates & Attorneys on Interpretation Services for Domestic Violence Victims, 2016 – The Interpretation Resource Guide is a collection of information, tips, tools, and resources for advocates and attorneys on working with interpreters in domestic violence cases.
• Terms of the Profession – A glossary of terms used in the interpretating world by National Association of Judiciary & Translators (NAJIT)

• Vicarious Trauma and the Professional Interpreter (Psychology Today), 2013 – Studies have shown that nearly all language interpreters experience some symptoms of vicarious trauma, burn out, compassion fatigue, or increased stress as a result of their repeated exposure to trauma information and story. The Trauma & Mental Health Report had the opportunity to speak with Simona, a Czech and Slovak language interpreter who mainly works with Czech, Slovak and Roma refugees and newly immigrated individuals; Simona spoke about her experiences as an interpreter.
• The Hazards of Empathy: Vicarious Trauma of Interpreters for the Deaf (Michael A. Harvey, Ph.D) – Many interpreters report varying degrees of depression as well as other debilitating psychology symptoms which are psychologically driven. Our vicarious trauma serves as a catalyst for us to struggle with how and why oppresson exists and grapple with ways of minimizing it.
  
• The Vicarious Trauma Toolkit (OVC) – The VTT includes tools and resources tailored specifically to these fields that provide the knowledge and skills necessary for organizations to address the vicarious trauma needs of their staff.
• Compassion Fatigue Awareness Test – Compassion fatigue is a broadly defined concept that can include emotional, physical, and spiritual distress in those providing care to another. It is associated with caregiving where people or animals are experiencing significant emotional or physical pain and suffering.

Legal Glossaries, dictionaries, technical features, accessibility, and other websites:

• NCSC Legal Glossaries and Dictionaries – Legal glossaries from the National Center for State Courts
  
• Verbs of Violence – A template of glossary of verbs usually used in domestic and sexual violence 
• 101 Verbs of Violence – Another template of glossary usually used in domestic and sexual violence
• Making Meetings and Events Accessible to People with Disabilities and Deaf People – Whether you are inviting members of a disability organization to a meeting or hosting an event that is open to the public, it is essential that both the content and the physical space are made accessible to Deaf people and those with disabilities. 
• Holding Inclusive Events: A Guide to Accessible Event Planning – This guide has the instructions to set up accessible events and conferences. Accessible means people can fully participate in conferences. Accessible event planning includes four steps. These four steps are universal design, physical accessibility, sensory accessibility, and cognitive accessibility.
• Zoom Interpreting and Closed Captioning Guide for Service Providers – Tips and resources on Zoom interpreting and closed captioning for service providers.
• Using Zoom for Your Court Appointment – Some courts may ask you to show up for your court appointment using Zoom. Zoom is a program that lets people connect to the same meeting from any location by video. In this video, we will help you understand how to use Zoom for your court appointment. We will also help you understand how to work with an interpreter through Zoom, if you need one. 

• Language Access & Interpretation: Resources for Policy, Research, Services and Advocacy – 2011
• Language Access: Considerations & Recommendations for Advocates Supporting Survivors of Violence – 2014
• Developing a Language Access Plan for your Agency – 2015
• Language Access Policy Template – 2016

• Interpretation: The Importance of Language in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assualt – 2015
• Interagency Language Roundtable Self-Assessments of Speaking, Listening, and Reading Proficiency 
• Breaking Silence: Interpreting for Victim Services – 2015 (Ayuda)

• Working with Interpreteers – 2015
• Interpretation Services – 2015
• How to Address Problems with Interpretation – 2015
• Considerations When Using Interpreters for Victims with Limited English Proficiency – 2015
• Resource Guide for Advocates & Attorneys on Interpretation Services for Domestic Violence, Sexual Assualts, and Trafficking Victims – 2016

• Serving Individuals who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Deaf-Blind and do not use American Sign Language – 2015
• Working with Sign Language Interpreters for Events – 2017 (Vera)
• Providing Interpreters to Deaf Survivors (DeafHope)