About PALS for Health and ALAS para Tu Salud
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At the SSG Staff Appreciation Lunch July 2006 Pictured from L to R: Anne Hu (Translation Coordinator), Tania Trillo (Outreach Coordinator), Susan Choi (Program Manager), Mireya Muñoz (ALAS Project Manager), Tina Vasinamakin (Program Assistant), Thi Trang (Program Coordinator), and (kneeling) Heng L. Foong (Program Director).
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PALS for Health was established in 1993. We are the language access 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. Specifically, PALS for Health offers trained health care interpreters and translators in Spanish and 12 Asian and Pacific Islander languages. We work directly with both the provider and health consumer population of Los Angeles and Orange Counties.
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.
PALS for Health Spanish Language Health Care Interpretation Project (2003)
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)
Other Publications
PALS for Health brochures (version 2002/2003)
PALS for Health newsletter VOICES
VOICES
Fall
2006/Winter 2007 (.pdf format, 126KB) Featured articles:
Statewide health care interpreter survey; health care interpreting in
Australia and Spain; PALS for Health new staff and more!
VOICES Fall 2005 (.pdf format, 400KB) Featured articles: AB 775 to Prohibit the use of Child Interpreters; A Child Interpreter: In Her Own Words; CHIA 2005 Conference; PALS for Health Fundraiser; ALAS Interpreter feature - Jane MacNeil; Interpreter Case Conference Update and more!
VOICES Spring/Summer 2005 (.pdf format, 1.96MB) Featured articles: Public speaking training for limited English proficient patients; Interpreter/translator resource center; Patient feature story for the ALAS para tu Salud project "A Mother's Love Prevails Despite Language Barriers"; Peer to Peer Support for Health Care Interpreters; and more.
VOICES Volume IX Number 1 Summer 2004 (.pdf format, 88KB) Featured articles: Methodist Hospital/PALS for Health Partnership to Test and Train Bilingual Staff; Peer to Peer Support for Health Care Interpreters; California Smokers' Helpline and more.
VOICES Volume VIII Number I Spring/Summer 2003 (.pdf format, 104KB)Featured articles: Trained and Untrained Health Care Interpreters; Introducing ALAS para Tu Salud; Proposition 54; "I Speak" Card Evaluation - Does It Work?
VOICES Volume VII Number I Fall/Winter 2002 (.pdf format, 94KB) Featured articles: Connecting Worlds Health Care Interpreter Training; Los Angeles County Department of Health Services' Language Identification Poster.
SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS, INC. (SSG)
Special Service for Groups is a United Way member, community-based non-profit human services agency
which was incorporated in 1952. SSG is committed towards the development of
human service programs which reflect a variety of community needs and concerns.
The Asian and Pacific Islander community is a diverse, fast-growing population
with a variety of often unrecognized needs and concerns. The PALS for Health
Program is one of the over 25 multi-ethnic human services programs developed by
SSG.
Past and present funding support of PALS for Health is provided by:
1. County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS
Programs and Policy
2. The California Community Foundation
3. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
4. Office of Minority Health Bilingual/Bicultural Service Demonstration Grant
5. Alliance Healthcare Foundation
6. The California Wellness Foundation
7. The California Endowment
8. UniHealth
Foundation
9. Weingart
Foundation
ADDRESS
PALS for Health
605 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Main telephone (213) 553-1818
Fax (213) 553-1822
If you have questions please email Anita Le at anital@palsforhealth.org or call 213-553-1818.
For directions to PALS for Health in Los Angeles: Driving directions, parking and closest metro stop (PDF format, 55KB)