Federal Corner

In September 2011, NCIIP and the Annie E. Casey Foundation hosted a unique, one-day convening on language access to assist federal agencies in the development and implementation of language access plans. The convening brought together over 150 federal agency officials, as well as language access managers from community organizations and state and local government to discuss promising approaches to devising, implementing, and monitoring language access services. Resources from the convening include:

• NEW: MPI's federal government language access resource guide, which includes information for filing complaints of potential civil rights violations
• Evaluation results from the “Implementing Language Access Plans: What Works, What Counts?” convening
• Annie E. Casey Foundation presentation of how federal agencies communicate with multilingual audiences
• US Department of Justice Checklist for Creating Language Access Plans
• New York City Department of Education’s Five-Factor Analysis for Identifying Translation Needs
• Other resources presented at the convening are available through theLanguage Portal’s online database by searching under “national resource.”