| Cathi
Kroon of Yale New Haven Health
to Join Culturesmart as a Consultant
and Trainer
QUINCY, MA - 8/1/07 - Culturesmart
is pleased to announce that Cathi
Kroon of Wallingford, Connecticut,
has joined Culturesmart as a consultant
and Spanish language coach. “Connecticut
is a state which is ripe for development
in medical interpreting,” says
Cathi. She looks forward to being
a part of Culturesmart’s
program because it includes assessments,
evaluations, and a complete curriculum
that covers interpreter skills,
minimum standards, and language-specific
development. “I welcome the
opportunity to participate in Connecticut’s
development and I enjoy training,
as I get to meet others who are
interested in the field of medical
interpreting and help them toward
greater professionalism.”
Cathi’s work at Culturesmart
with Spanish medical interpreters
draws on more than 10 years at
Yale-New Haven Hospital, where
Cathi designed and managed the
interpreter services program. She
recently moved to Yale-New Haven
Health, a three-hospital consortium,
where her work includes interpreter
assessment and training, as well
as collecting and disseminating
data on language to help ensure
that appropriate linguistic support
is available to patients.
Cathi became interested in languages
while working as a nurse assistant
in a summer job at a TB hospital
in San Antonio, Texas. Spanish-speaking
nurses coached her in helpful phrases
and encouraged her to study Spanish.
When she returned to Wichita State
University for her senior year,
Cathi completed enough courses
for a minor in Spanish that complements
her BME in music education. She
later joined the Peace Corps and
spent two years in the Dominican
Republic as a teacher-trainer.
Other travel has brought Cathi
to Hungary to learn about the Zoltán
Kodály’s philosophy
of teaching music and to Portugal
to teach English as a Second Language.
Beyond studying Spanish, Hungarian,
Portuguese, and German, Cathi is
an intermediate-level student of
American Sign Language.
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If you’d like more information
about The
Essential Piece™
curriculum or if you are interested
in bringing this training to your
area, please call us
at 617-890-1111 or send us an
email at info@culturesmart.org
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