The National Language Access Advocates Network (N-LAAN)
Join this site if you are a volunteer attorney, legal services advocate, law student or faculty advising low income and disadvantaged limited English proficient clients, there are resources here to help you.
The National Language Access Advocates Network (N-LAAN) is a national organization that supports and engages in effective advocacy to eradicate language discrimination and promote language rights. N-LAAN provides a forum for language access advocates to develop expertise, share resources and devise strategy. It serves as a voice for its members in advocating for better policies and laws and for more effective enforcement of language rights.
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"Language services expenses should be treated as a basic and essential operating expense, not as an ancillary cost. Court systems have many operating expenses -judges and staff, buildings, utilities, security, filing, data and records systems, insurance, research, and printing costs, to name a few. Court systems in every part of the country serve populations ofLEP individuals and most jurisdictions, if not all, have encountered substantial increases in the number of LEP parties and witnesses and the diversity of languages they speak. Budgeting adequate funds to ensure language access is fundamental to the business of the courts."
"Fiscal pressures, however, do not provide an exemption from civil rights requirements."
Letter by Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General
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- Social Security Disability 2010 Live or Webcast Sep 10
- LEP workshop, Casa de Esperanza, Minneapolis Sep 13
- New ways to train lawyers and deliver training content via advocate sites (Admin Training Series) Sep 14
- Diversity RX on CCHI (Certification of Interpreters) Sep 15
- How to create interpreter certification programs Sep 17
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