Language Access Work Group - Meeting 1 of 6

July 25, 2023

Welcome, agenda review and technology orientation	Anita Maguire
Zoom Support Staff introductions	Ben Lee, Tony Rice
Breakout Room explanation	Anita Maguire
Breakout Room Facilitator introductions	Sharon Armstrong, Adolfo Capestany, Herminia Esqueda, Stacii McKeon
Brief self-introductions	Participants
Community agreements	Anita Maguire
Project Manager introduced and provided explanation of the work group’s unifying focus	Malia Wallace-Mello
Breakout Room discussions	Breakout Room Facilitators and Participants
Breakout Room discussion recap	Breakout Room Facilitators
Conclusion and next steps	Anita Maguire

DSHS needs your help to prepare. If you have not confirmed your availability for each of the remaining dates, please do so as soon as possible. Only those participants who have written to Malia Wallace-Mello at workgroupssb5304@dshs.wa.gov and let her know which remaining dates they can and cannot attend, will be admitted into future meetings.
Complete Getting to Know You form.
Homework Assignment: Please come to Meeting 2 prepared to discuss the question, "In what ways can the State of Washington support having more qualified medical interpreters?"
- Please see Information Sheet: Preliminary Elements of Medical Interpreter Testing and Certification for examples as well as preliminary elements of medical interpreter testing and certification to be considered in a recommendation
- Participants may share their draft recommendations either by using the Draft Recommendations Google form, or by emailing their draft to workgroupssb5304@dshs.wa.gov. If you decide to submit using the Google form, you will have a better experience if you are signed in to Google