ACIA - Arizona Court Interpreters Association

Features

Arizona Court Interpreters Association endeavors to maintain high standards for interpreters and translators who provide professional and culturally-sensitive language services in a variety of environments.

The Arizona Court Interpreters Association was founded in 1980 by a group of staff interpreters from Superior Court in Maricopa County. Members were soon recruited from Tucson and eventually interpreters from Nogales, Yuma, Flagstaff, Prescott, and other areas joined.

ACIA is the only statewide court interpreter association in Arizona. The majority of current members are practicing interpreters and translators who provide language services to our various court systems in 14 spoken languages and American Sign Language.

The Association is dedicated to offering training and education through workshops and seminars; serving as an interpreters’ network for sharing ideas, experiences, knowledge and employment opportunities with colleagues; working to achieve state certification; and providing a standard of professional conduct and professional code of ethics.

ACIA’s MISSION:

ACIA accomplishes this through a variety of means:

Ongoing workshops and seminars on ethics and other timely issues given by professionals in their fields by providing a forum for members to network and to share ideas, experiences, employment opportunities and friendship by working toward the establishment of state certification and testing programs with the goal of achieving and maintaining high standards for Arizona’s interpreters and translators.

Benefits

An ACIA membership will entitle you to attend conferences and seminars given by well-known experts in their fields and at the same time enjoy the camaraderie and exchange with others of the same profession. Some members are able to obtain continuing education credits for their employers through these events. Members are also entitled to make use of the ACIA web site and receive a newsletter with information on upcoming events, articles on terminology issues, current events and developments in the interpretation/translation world.

Membership

$50 Active membership
$30 Associate membership
Active membership is reserved for members currently working in the profession of interpreting and/or translation. Associate members are either students
and/or those interested in the profession.