eCALD Newsletter 52: March 2020
The current COVID-19 situation requires stricter social distancing. So we are now providing “remote face-to-face courses” instead of face-to-face courses to reduce close contacts. The remote courses are provided by an educator via video conferencing system. This means you now have a choice of accessing our e-learning courses or remote face-to-face courses for most of our courses.
As we have moved into COVID-19 Alert Level 4, we understand the health sector is moving towards the use of remote interpreters as a priority and minimising the use of face-to-face interpreters to reduce close contacts. This would mean a greater need for practical skills training and guidelines, eg understanding how to effectively utilise remote interpreting sessions to interact with patients. To help our health workforce to gain the essential knowledge and skills to work with remote interpreters, eCALD® services have published a set of guidelines and is providing one-hour remote face-to-face trainings that will be delivered via Zoom video conferencing between 1st April 2020 to 22nd April 2020 - two sessions per day from 10am to 11am and 2pm to 3pm.
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CALD refers to culturally and linguistically diverse groups who are migrants and refugees from Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African (MELAA) backgrounds.
This eCALD Newsletter is produced by the eCALD Service at the Waitemata DHB.