Community Interpreters | Trained Professional Interpreters & Translators

Let us do the talking.

Community Interpreter Services provides culturally and linguistically appropriate language services to limited English proficient persons.

Let’s Build a Relationship Through Language.

Get Real Accurate Results

Online tools cannot produce accurate and quality translations – our human translators can.

Fluent in 90+
Languages

Our professional interpreters are trained and certified and are fluent in almost 100 languages to best suit your needs.

Certified Human
Translators

We are members of the American Translators Association and other professional business associations.

Nonprofit &
Social Enterprise

Our revenue helps fund the many Catholic Charities social service programs that serve Massachusetts.

What We Do

We offer the following
services:

• On-Site Oral Interpretation
• Remote Telephonic/Virtual Interpretation by Appointment
• Simultaneous Interpretation for Large Groups/Events
• Written Document Translation
• On-Demand Telephonic Interpretation

Our Impact

For Every Dollar,
We Fund Catholic
Charities.

Community Interpreter Services is a social enterprise of Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Boston, one of the largest providers of social services in MA. When you choose CIS, you are supporting programs that serve our local communities. Find out more about how you are making a difference at ccab.org

For every hour of interpreting you purchase..

$8 Goes to

Feeding a child in one of our Child Care facilities, who may not be getting a nutritious meal every day at home.

$250 Goes to

Providing students with access to tutoring, college prep, homework assistance, and college or job application guidance.

$500 Goes to

A licensed clinician for family support groups.

“They have been great and always willing to help. I have been working with some of their interpreters since I started and they often help me reach out to the leads to help me schedule the in-home [visits].”

A Nurse PractitionerSenior Care Options program

"CIS is prompt at returning calls and very professional. We’ve used them for our training needs as well as translating documents... each interpreter has been very flexible when trying to coordinate interpreters with our trainings."

Paula IsenbergPigeon Cove Quality Assurance

“I am thrilled with the accuracy of Community Interpreter Services written translation skills. I know where to go when the opportunity arises.”

Fran BakstranArea Agency on Aging Assistant Director

“[CIS] made our annual Immigrants’ Day so much more inclusive and accessible. The interpreters were wonderful to work with and our attendees were so glad interpretation was available. It truly made our event so much more accessible.”

Amira Al-Subaeyformer Membership Coordinator

Boston Public Schools has been using CIS to provide interpretation services to the district for over 10 years, and we are satisfied with their performance. The interpreters are professional and skillful, and the CIS scheduling team is quick to respond, efficient, and a pleasure to work with.

Allen DowlingDirector of Translation & Interpretation

In the last 6 months, CIS has provided interpreters for almost 2,000 Unemployment Insurance Hearings at DUA in at least 20 different languages. . .Their interpreters are always professional and proficient in their language and the CIS scheduling team is very friendly and amenable to our needs. I'm happy to recommend Community Interpreter Services at Catholic Charities of Boston.

Marisa de la PazDirector of the Office of Multilingual Services

Not only are their interpreters top-notch, but their customer service is incredibly helpful. They make the process of finding virtual or in-person interpretation very straightforward. I strongly recommend Community Interpreter Services and I am looking forward to continuing to work with them for all our interpretation and translation needs.

Beth HegartyAdministrative Assistant to the Director of Special Education