Interpreters With Options
Options Mission
Options standards:
- Clear and fair practices for all individuals who are a party to our services.
- Vetted, competent and accountable interpreters are working each and every assignment.
- Working within the frame of upholding the linguistic and human rights of the individuals we serve.
- Fostering and nurturing the development of interpreters by ways of education and mentorship.
Options priorities:
- Raise the bar on interpreting standards and expectations of customer service.
- Shift the paradigm of procurement of interpreter services.
- Being available and accessible to the communities we serve.
All Options: An Interpreting Cooperative practitioners;
- Are RID certified or RID certification ready (i.e. passed the RID written examination and are committed to taking the RID performance evaluation)
- Engages in regular professional dialogue and has an ethical support community.
- Supports the Deaf community by ways of giving back such as pro bono work, community engagement and involvement, volunteerism, and activism.
- Maintains and exceeds national expectations of professional development and growth.
- Upholds the linguistic rights of the Deaf community by practicing within a rights based frame of ethical decision making.
- Advocates for the direct procurement of optimal and culturally competent interpreting services.
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