REGISTRATION PAGE: Connection Clinical Training Workshop,  December 8, 2023

"Therapists and Interpreters Working Together with Forced Migrant Clients”
 
Intercultural Counseling Connection clinical training workshop, presented in collaboration with Inspirit Counseling Services and Cross-Cultural Communications
 
Date: Friday, December 8th, 2023
 
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
 
Location: Intercultural Counseling Connection, 4500 Frankford Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21206
 
 
Workshop Description: This in-person training brings together mental health providers and interpreters in a joint learning experience, focused on strengthening their collaborative skills in therapy sessions with culturally diverse forced migrant clients (asylum seekers, asylees and refugees). Through video excerpts, role plays, and a variety of interactive methods, participants explore the nature of the “therapeutic triad” and gain practical competence in ensuring ethical standards, safety, transparency, and an environment of trust. Participants will engage in experiential activities that help them implement good practices and address challenges in working through interpretation in cross-cultural therapeutic settings. 
 
 
Presenters:
Carola Morton is a federally certified English/Spanish court interpreter, language services consultant, interpreter trainer and test developer, with more than 25 years’ experience in professional interpreting in the legal and medical fields. She has extensive experience in developing interpreter training curricula and training interpreters, and is a licensed trainer for The Community Interpreter® International. Carola has co-authored interpreter training curricula including Healing Voices: Interpreting for Survivors of Torture, War Trauma and Sexual Violence, and Ayuda’s Breaking Silence: Interpreting for Victim Services, featuring a workbook, glossary and training manual.
 
 
Andrea Rackowski (LCSW-C, PhD), Clinical Director at the Intercultural Counseling Connection, has extensive experience working with forced migrant survivors of torture and conflict-related trauma. She provides specialized consultation for therapists within the program’s pro bono provider network, is certified in nature-informed therapy, and is a certified social work supervisor in Maryland.  Andrea has a background in linguistics, and is a fluent French speaker.  She has worked with interpreters within therapeutic and other contexts, including as the volunteer interpreter coordinator at Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (ASTT).


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* 1. Your first name

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* 2. Your last name

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* 3. Your licensure and degree information

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* 4. Please indicate your agency/organization/clinical practice affiliation(s)

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* 5. Please provide your contact information (NOTE: Please be sure to include your preferred email address for workshop follow-up messages and details.)

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* 6. Please briefly describe your experience doing trauma-informed clinical work.

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* 7. Please indicate any prior experience you have working with refugees, asylum-seekers, or other forced migrants or immigrants. (Current Connection network clinicians may indicate "Working with Connection client(s)".)

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* 8. Are you able to make a commitment to providing therapeutic services for at least one Connection (refugee, asylum-seeking, asylee or immigrant) client on a pro bono basis in the coming 12 months?

(Note: The Connection will provide trained interpreters whenever needed for therapeutic sessions.)

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* 9. Will you be seeking CEUs for this workshop?

As noted above, this workshop is free for clinicians who are current members of the Connection network (i.e. who have accepted Connection pro bono client referrals).

A fee of $80.00 will apply for all other registrants. Those registrants will be notified by email of pending  workshop confirmation, at which time payment instructions will be provided.

A limited number of workshop spaces will be available for graduate students in clinical mental health tracks who are available to volunteer as workshop aides. For more information, please contact Lauren Goodsmith at lgoodsmith.connection@gmail.com .
Thank you for your interest in the Intercultural Counseling Connection network. For further information, please visit our website at www.interculturalcounseling.org

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