Guest speaker, Myriam Monsalve Serna, gave a presentation to The Consumer Network on January 12, 2016. Myriam talked about the importance for agencies to assess their adherence CLAS Standards. She gave a short history on CLAS and warned that all agencies and organizations that receive Federal funding must implement CLAS.The new enhanced standards have three main goals: 1) to provide guidance, 2) implementing communication and language assistance, and 3) engaging and assessing community needs.
It is important for individuals and organizations to have a vision of what culturally and linguistically appropriate services will look like in practice. Myriam’s presentation gave everyone many practical examples.
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