MARIE now has there own website:
www.unco.edu/marie

The UNC-DO IT Center was been awarded the RSA funds (H160A100007) to become the 2010-2015 Mid-America Regional Interpreter Education (MARIE) Center and as such a member of the National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers (NCIEC).  The NCIEC is made up of five regional and one National Interpreter Education Center:  St. Catherine’s CATIE Center (MN), Gallaudet Regional Interpreter Education Center (DC), MARIE Center (CO), Northeastern Regional Interpreter Education Center (MA), and Western Regional Interpreter Education Center (Western Oregon University & El Camino CC – CA).  The National Interpreter Education Center will be housed at Northeastern University in Boston. 

The MARIE region is comprised of 11 states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

The UNC-DO IT Center proposed several initiatives and partnered projects for this 5-year MARIE grant cycle.  These include:

1. Establishing an Institute for Legal Interpreting (ILI);
2. Hosting an annual MARIE-based Deaf Mentor Training and ASL Immersion event;
3. Replicating the 2010 national Deaf Advocacy Training in the MARIE states;
4. Creating and delivering a skills development series – the I-GO Series!;
5. Collaborating on the development and implementation of a vocational rehabilitation (VR) interpreting strand;
6. Providing technical assistance to the interpreter education community;
7. Annotating and consolidating lending library materials and processes; and,
8. Supporting the region through improved communication and RID-sponsored Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

What's more, MARIE stands prepared to support and collaborate with other NCIEC members on an agreed upon strategic plan with a comprehensive and cohesive plan of action. There are a number of activities going on “behind the scenes” as we ramp up the MARIE work. 

Here’s a sneak peek:  Anna Witter-Merithew will be overseeing the MARIE activities and a new MARIE Coordinator will be hired the first of the year.  In addition a new MARIE website will be constructed and made available in the near future. 

Stay tuned as the various activities are developed and made public! 

Legal Interpreter Training Program (LITP)
This four semester online program is designed for interpreters who wish to work in the legal system. The program offers 21 RID CEU's, 14 college credits.