Denise Brooks and Urban Core

Urban Core: It a tough situation, but 15 translator/interpreters who graduated from the first Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre cultural interpretation course on Friday are eager to help out in such situations. The graduates faced similar experiences on arriving in Canada and are enthusiastic about smoothing the way for others. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "I cannot tell you what a difference this has made to our clients already ," Urban Core executive director Denise Brooks told the graduates. If you're a refugee or an immigrant who can't yet speak English and you must see a doctor, how do you describe your symptoms? Urban Core cross cultural health care trainer Tibor Lukacs says the graduates represent 19 languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Cantonese, Hungarian, Mandarin, Polish and Russian. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.