Three Things a Healthcare Administrator Should Know About Language Access
By Rachel Showstack, Paul Spacek & Sarah Hoy Healthcare administrators often find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to providing … Read more
Four Things a Bilingual Clinician Should Know
By Pilar Ortega and Rachel Showstack You’re a nurse working at a hospital in the US, and you speak both English and Spanish because you … Read more
Three things you need to know when you go to the doctor
By Francisco (‘Paco’) Martínez and Rachel Showstack If you are a patient who needs to receive care in your own language when you go to…
Three Things a Clinician Should Know About Working with an Interpreter
By Francisco “Paco” Martínez and Rachel Showstack If you are a clinician in the United States who cares for patients whose preferred…
Alce su Voz builds Ark City Community Coalition with speakers of four Mayan languages
Kansas residents from Guatemala who speak the Mayan languages K’iche’, Akateko, Q’anjob’al, and Aguacateko spoke with Alce su Voz on…
Advancing Language Access After Topeka Summit
By Rachel Showstack and Rommy Vargas-Bezzubikoff* As linguistically diverse Kansans have proclaimed at community meetings across Kansas…
Civic Conversations for Health Equity
Civic participation activities, like voting, volunteering, talking with elected officials, community gardening, or group activities like…
Access to Mental Health Services for Spanish Speakers in Kansas
By Kelly Guzman, with contributions by Rachel Showstack Kelly Guzman is a bilingual mental health clinician with a private practice in…
Supporting Multilingualism for Health Equity in Public Education in Kansas
By Rachael Showstack Education has long been considered a “social determinant of health” (SoDH), or a condition in which people live that affects their overall … Read more
La profesionalización del rol de intérprete en Kansas
Equipo de intérpretes aprende sobre las leyes y regulaciones de acceso lingüístico y se pregunta por qué Kansas no las sigue…
Professionalizing the Interpreter Role in Kansas
Interpreter Team Learns Language Access Laws and Regulations and Asks Why Kansas does not Consistently Follow Them Title VI of the Civil…
¡Gracias a los estudiantes de Alce su Voz!
Alce su Voz would like to say thank you to our student research assistants for all of the amazing work they do! In this blog post, our…
Taking Alce su voz workshops to Southwest Kansas provides information about barriers to health care
Did you know that the population in Ford, Seward, and Finney counties in rural southwest Kansas is over 50% Hispanic/Latinx? Dodge City,…
Building a Coalition with Mayan Communities in Coffeyville
I’m writing this post in Coffeyville, Kansas, where I just spent three days meeting with Mayan families, community leaders, and…
Announcing Five Exciting Workshops for Spanish Speakers in Wichita!
By Savannah Paschal and Rachel Showstack Alce su voz has an exciting lineup of Spanish-language workshops planned for this spring and summer, starting with a … Read more
The Alce Su Voz Community Council Forges the Path for Our Newest Project
by Rachel Showstack Alce su voz community members gathered last Saturday at the Evergreen Community Center and Library to collaborate on our newest funded initiative … Read more
Wichita State Spanish Students Collaborate with Alce su Voz
By Devin Hamm, Madison Coleman, Cynthia Hermosillo, and Payton Dearmont This fall semester, the students in Dr. Rachel Showstack’s “Spanish in the U.S.” class designed … Read more
Building Equitable Health Services for Speakers of Mayan Languages: Community Voices in Southeast KS
by Rachel Showstack Did you know that your health is influenced by your zip code? Public messaging often presents good health as the result of … Read more
Community Engagement for Vaccine Equity
Alce su Voz (‘Speak out’) has been getting to know Guatemalan indigenous individuals who live in southwest and southeast Kansas and learning about the multiple … Read more
From testimonios to dialogue: Conversations about funding for medical interpretation
By Rachel Showstack In the Alce su Voz (‘Speak out’) community, we talk a lot about the importance of sharing our testimonios, the stories that we … Read more
Las elecciones generales de 2022 y la importancia de votar
por Alondra Aguilera ¡Hola! Soy Alondra Aguilera y soy estudiante de tercer año de educación en español en la Universidad Estatal de Wichita. Ademas de … Read more
You can help us fulfill our mission!
Last month, I posted a video of my former graduate student Iván García-Mijares sharing a story about a time he had to interpret very serious … Read more
We got funding for two projects!
by Rachel Showstack The Alce su Voz team is excited to announce two grants to support our projects! In this post, we present the purpose … Read more
What is Alce su Voz and what do we do?
By Rachel Showstack Maybe you’ve seen our name, Alce su Voz, and some of our posts, and you want to know more about what we … Read more
Four Successful Workshops
by Rachel Showstack Alce su Voz’s inaugural workshop series was a great success! We offered a series of educational workshops for Wichita’s Spanish-speaking community, with … Read more