Alce su Voz Loses Two Federal Grants
By Rachel Showstack and Savannah Paschal Like many US programs that depend on federal funding, Alce su Voz is currently facing a loss of resources … Read more
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Alce su Voz Offers Recommendations for Improved Healthcare Language Services in Kansas
By Rachel Showstack Imagine that you recently moved to a country where almost everyone else speaks a language that you do not know well. You … Read more
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
Alce su Voz from 2020 to Today
By Rachel Showstack Four years ago, the grant-funded activities for a Latine community health project I was leading in Wichita were coming to an end, … 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…