PALS for Health was established in 1993. We are the language service program of Special Service for Groups (SSG) 1952, a non-profit United Way agency that provides innovative services to diverse ethnic minority and disenfranchised communities. SSG created PALS for Health specifically to increase access to meaningful and quality health care services for limited English proficient residents of Los Angeles County.

Considered by many as a pioneer in health care interpretation and translation services, PALS for Health has devoted over 15 years to the development and refinement of effective tools designed to promote linguistically and culturally appropriate communication. Its various projects, which include interpretation, translation, language proficiency testing, health care interpreter training, HIV/AIDS interpreter training, health care translator training, provider and community education, and advocacy complement each other to paint a complete picture of language needs of our communities and strengthen the program’s capacity to offer a comprehensive spectrum of services.

With firmly established roots in the community, PALS for Health draws from a wealth of bilingual and bicultural experts who represent our area’s diverse population in the truest sense. With highly practical skills designed to enhance service delivery obtained from the variety of PALS for Health’s trainings, these community experts bring to our clients the highest quality of services that sensitively capture appropriate cultural and linguistic nuances vital to effective communications in health care settings.

PALS for Health brochures (version 2002/2003)

• English brochure (.pdf format, 71KB)
  
• Chinese brochure cover (JPG, 558KB) and brochure inside (JPG, 607KB)
  
• Japanese brochure cover (JPG, 497KB) and brochure inside (JPG, 687KB)
  
• Korean brochure cover (JPG, 539KB) and brochure inside (JPG, 619KB)
  
• Thai brochure cover (JPG, 584KB) and brochure inside (JPG, 679KB)
  
• Vietnamese brochure cover (JPG, 562KB) and brochure inside (JPG, 593KB)
  

ALAS para Tu Salud Sin Barreras del Idioma para Una Communidad Más Saludable was developed as a project of PALS for Health in May 2003 to offer interpretation and translation services, as well as patient language rights training to the limited English proficient (LEP) Latino/Hispanic communities of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties. For more information, please call Mireya Muñoz at 213.627.4850.

• ALAS para Tu Salud Spanish language brochure cover (.pdf format, 556 KB)
  
• ALAS para Tu Salud Spanish language brochure cover (JPG, 552 KB)
• ALAS para Tu Salud Spanish language brochure inside (.pdf format, 708 KB)
  
• ALAS para Tu Salud Spanish language brochure inside (JPG, 704 KB)