INTRODUCING BRIDGEREADY
Prepare Your People to Communicate Across Languages.
BridgeReady | Language Access Training for Organizations
Equip your teams with the knowledge, skills, and practical processes to work effectively with interpreters and support multilingual communication across your organization.
Language Access Requires More Than Access to an Interpreter.
Organizations also need staff who know when to request language support, how to communicate through an interpreter, and how to incorporate language access into daily operations. BridgeReady helps leaders and teams develop the practical knowledge and processes needed to support multilingual communication.
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Operational Readiness
Help staff understand when and how to access interpreting services.
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Workforce Capability
Develop employees' understanding of effective interpreter supported communication.
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Sustainable Internal Knowledge
Build the skills and internal resources that help organizations maintain language access practices.
Training Designed Around Your Organization.
BridgeReady offers several ways to build language access capability. Choose the programs that match your goals. Formats and availability vary by program.
Language Access Consultations
For leaders, managers, facilities, and properties.
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BridgeReady helps organizations explore how language access can fit into their operations.
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Consultations can address:
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Identifying languages used by the communities they serve
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Understanding when phone, video, or onsite interpreting is appropriate
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Prioritizing documents for translation
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Establishing staff processes for requesting interpreters
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Preparing managers to lead language access efforts
Staff Training on Working With Interpreters
Practical, Workplace Focused Training.
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Help employees understand how to request an interpreter, communicate effectively through one, and document interpreter use.
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Healthcare clinical staff training is currently available. Training formats:
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Live virtual cohorts, minimum of 6 participants
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In person at your location, minimum of 8 participants
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No separate charge for trainer travel
Train the Trainer
Enterprise Interpreter Training
Interpreting Skills Courses for Teams
Prepare Internal Leaders to Teach.
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Prepare internal leaders to deliver language access training to their own teams.
Develop Bilingual Employees Into Trained Interpreters.
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Structured professional interpreter education for bilingual employees, arranged through your organization.
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Enterprise arrangements include:
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Bulk seat purchasing with volume based pricing
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One organizational invoice
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Seat tracking and progress reporting
Instructor Led Skills Development.
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Courses led by CCHI certified interpreters, offered live virtual and in person.
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Skills covered:
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Simultaneous interpreting
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Consecutive interpreting
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Sight translation
Healthcare Interpreter Continuing Education
Ongoing Professional Development.
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Courses that support ongoing professional development for healthcare interpreters.
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Continuing education courses may be added to Enterprise Training arrangements.
College & University Curriculum Partnerships
Interpreter Training Through Campus Programs.
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BridgeVoice partners with colleges and universities to provide curriculum and interpreter training through continuing education and workforce development programs.
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These partnerships help bilingual students develop interpreting skills while pursuing their education.
Built for Organizations That Serve Multilingual Communities.
BridgeReady training is tailored to each organization's setting. Program availability varies, and not every course is offered for every industry.
Healthcare
Property Management & Multifamily
Hospitality
Legal
Logistics
School Districts
Colleges & Universities
Serve a Different Setting?
Tell us about your organization and the communication situations your team handles. We will discuss which training options fit your setting.
Training That Works With Your Team.
Formats vary by program, and not every program is offered in every format. Ask which options are available for the training you need.
Live Virtual
Instructor led group training with real time interaction.
In Person
Training delivered at the organization's location for qualifying groups.
Online Self Paced
Available for applicable enterprise interpreter education courses.
Built by a Language Access Company That Understands the Work.
BridgeReady is part of BridgeVoice Interpreters, a company that provides language access services while investing in the education of the people and organizations that use them. Our training connects the operational side of language access with the professional skills needed to make interpreter supported communication effective.
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Practical, workplace focused education
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Programs for staff, leaders, and bilingual employees
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Instructor led interpreting skills development
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Flexible organizational training arrangements
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Enterprise reporting for applicable programs
