American Sign Language Interpreter Services

The Vendor is required to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter services for vulnerable youth, while also supporting coordinated pathways to stabilization and long-term care.
- To provide a range of professional and qualified ASL services, including but not limited to the following:
•    Services may be held on weekends from 8:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m. and weekdays from 11:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m., including state holidays. 
•    Assist youth with daily rehabilitation and educational programs. 
•    Assist youth with communications that may include legal and court appearances. 
•    Provide equitable, fair, and unbiased ASL services to youth incarcerated at agency.
- Responsibilities
•    Provide communication access services which include ASL, to support youth with their rehabilitation, educational, and any related correctional programs aligned with youth required programs. 
•    Collaborate with agency staff and personnel who have immediate and intrinsic concern for the rehabilitative, social, personal, and vocational development of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the correctional environment
•    This collaboration is in consultation with and at the discretion of the agency administrator.
•    Ensure the providers hold certifications in ASL credentials that are awarded to providers and issued by the state sign language interpreter credential issued by the state disability and communication access board.