Guam EHDI Staff and GPPT Fitme Project Coordinator Attend Parent Leadership Training in Saipan

by Jenika Ballesta
(L-R) Susan Dugan, Guam Positive Parents Together (GPPT) Project Fitme Project Coordinator; Candance Lindow-Davies, Hands & Voices Director of Outreach; Karen Putz and Stephanie Olson, Hands & Voices Co-Directors of Deaf/Hard of Hearing (D/HH) Infusion take time out to pose for a photo during the D/HH Parent Leadership Training that took place in Saipan, CNMI on February 24, 2018, as part of the CNMI EHDI Project’s parent engagement initiative. The purpose of the training was to provide guidance to parents of children who are D/HH on leadership strategies to support other parents of children who are D/HH.
Parents and trainers take a group photo during the D/HH Parent Leadership Training that took place in Saipan, CNMI on February 24, 2018, as part of the CNMI EHDI Project’s parent engagement initiative.
Stephanie Olson, Hands and Voices Co-Director of D/HH Infusion poses with Terrie Fejarang, Guam EHDI Project Director. Stephanie was part of a Hands and Voices team that conducted training and technical assistance for parent leadership in Saipan, CNMI on February 22-24.
(L-R) Terrie Fejarang, Guam EHDI Project Director, and Mystica Kaipat, Saipan-based Sign Language Interpreter, reminisce about when Mystica started her formal interpreter training in 1996. Mystica was a member of the first cohort to complete the requirements to earn an Associate Degree in Sign Language Interpreting under the Regional Sign Language Interpreter Training Program facilitated by Guam CEDDERS in partnership with Guam Community College. They met up at the D/HH Parent Leadership Training that took place in Saipan, CNMI as part of the CNMI EHDI Project’s parent engagement initiative during which Mystica served as a local-based interpreter.
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