Sign Like It Matters: Trauma-Informed ASL Interpreting

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Includes a Live Web Event on 12/10/2024 at 6:00 PM (EST)

0.4 Professional Studies (PS) CEUs - RID HQ is an approved sponsor of RID CEU activities.

This training is designed to help build interpreters’ core skills and familiarity for those interested in working in domestic violence advocacy and supporting trauma survivors in Washington and beyond. As a result of the training, the interpreters will have a better understanding of how traumatic experiences can impact the individual, how trauma manifests in people and how to present information in a variety of ways that uses a trauma-informed lens. This information will help interpreters become survivor-centered, more compassionate and help mitigate the chances of triggering their clients.

Interpreters/Attendees shall:

1. Identify the basic pillars of trauma-informed care

2. Demonstrate their knowledge on translating trauma-informed care into the interpreting field

3. Analyze their existing knowledge and skills regarding signing choices and delivery and recall what they learned about trauma-informed care to produce interpretations that promote safety and minimize retraumatization.

Wilma Dennis

Wilma Dennis is the Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator at ADWAS in Seattle, WA. She had been working at ADWAS since 2017, wearing many hats. With her Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, she worked as an Advocate when she first started, working directly with Deaf survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. After 3 years, she switched to Outreach and Prevention, working in K-12 schools and educating communities both Deaf and Hearing on various topics, from teen dating violence, intersectionality, and more. Wilma currently identify gaps in services, provides consultation on issues connected to DV/SA within and against the Deaf community to outside agencies, businesses, and service providers of Washington State.