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Things that we believe that the best way to provide Language Access is actually having staff in staff to provide it and we make every effort that in every clinic whether San Francisco general or Community Based clinics we have that capability. If we dont have the capability we have an Interpreter Service thats actually run by the San Francisco general automatic transfer seem less transfer the patient themselves probably wont know that and then the dmi i dont know if you have seen the vmi the video medical interpretation but also we have i know i hear information from members of the community a...

Process. Determination of substantial number of thresholds by obtaining evidence from reliable data sources such as the American Community survey or anything else that we can get our hands on that is being validated information and validate this information having it analyzed by by the San Francisco Planning Department and compare with previously published data studies. The step may include a Baseline Study if there is no Information Available or the margin of error places the threshold in question as in the case of filipino where there was a difference in the threshold and certification after...

To garden ers and park patrol officers so we are all day every day interacting with the public in various ways. Currently this year our budget for translation and interpretation was set at 40,000 of which so far we spent close to 30 thousand compared to last year at 15 thousand so doubled the amount of Language Translation Services we provided. Was that deliberate that you started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Scholarship Applications so we now have the Scholarship Application available in chinese spanish russi...

Started to translate more materials . Yes. One of the largest barriers that i think weve had a great leap in is providing Scholarship Applications so we now have the Scholarship Application available in chinese spanish russian and vietnamese and tagal will be coming towards the end of the summer now that thats on board there so along with the application for scholarship were also providing some written email communication weve been translating to be able to communicate with our scholarship clients to remind them to renew or remind them that they are signed up for a particular program so weve d...

Information available or the margin of error places the threshold in question as in the case of filipino where there was a difference in the threshold and certification after we validate the data we issue written notification to all City Departments as with the original amendment in 2009, 18 months to implement citywide. Were very pleased this year to to be able to certify filipino as a language. Now the margin of error is plus or minus 930 and this is the specific reason why ocea wanted to do a baseline study. And at that time the 2000 census provided a lot more detailed information there wer...