[acb-hsp] [acb-l] Recruiting Mentors and Mentees Part I

[peter altschul]

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From: "Mitch Pomerantz" <mitch.pomerantz at earthlink.net
Subject: [acb-l] Recruiting Mentors and Mentees Part I
Date sent: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:27:53 -0700

Colleagues:

The American Council of the Blind is working with the 
Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center at Mississippi State University on 
several
interesting projects including one to ascertain the positive 
impact on blind
and visually impaired college students of employed blind and 
visually
impaired mentors.

I am posting the first of three flyers; this one is a general 
information
and recruitment piece.  I would also urge those of you who can, 
to please
forward this information to your affiliate website or newsletter  
to
facilitate the widest dissemination possible.

It is my sincere hope that a number of ACB members will 
participate, either
as mentees or mentors.  If you are interested, please direct all
communication to Jamie O'Mally, at the telephone number or e-mail 
address
listed below.


Sincerely,
Mitch Pomerantz, President
American Council of the Blind
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Subject: Mentoring Project Seeking Students and Professionals Who 
Are
Legally Blind



Dear Colleague,



We work at the Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low 
Vision at
Mississippi State University and we are seeking college students 
and
professionals who are legally blind to participate in an 
employment
mentoring project.  We hope that you will help us reach potential
participants for this opportunity by distributing, posting, or 
forwarding
the attached flyers to individuals or groups that might be 
interested.
Students will be paired with mentors based on location and field 
of
interest, and we will examine the influence of a mentor 
relationship on
employment outcomes for graduating students including: 
development of job
seeking-skills, job placement, job satisfaction, and 
self-efficacy.



We anticipate that students and mentors will find this program to 
be highly
beneficial.  Potential benefits for students include: assistance 
in career
goal development, skills training, job seeking, job placement, 
and
opportunities for job shadowing.  We expect that mentors will 
benefit from
working closely with college or graduate students who are blind 
and the
opportunity to assist in research that seeks to benefit the blind 
community.
This research is funded by the National Institute on Disability 
and
Rehabilitation Research.



If you are willing to distribute the attached flyers on our 
behalf to help
us find participants, please respond and let us know.  It is 
important that
we reach as many people as we can across the United States, and 
we
appreciate your help in spreading the word.  Please feel free to 
forward the
body of this email to others that you think might know someone 
who would be
interested in participating.



Thank you for your time and consideration of this request.  
Please contact
Jamie O'Mally at 662-325-2001 or at rrtc2 at colled.msstate.edu  if 
you have
any questions or require additional information.





Thank you!





Dr.  Jamie O'Mally, Assistant Research Professor

Dr.  Brenda Cavenaugh, Research Professor

Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision

Mississippi State University

P.O.  Box 6189

Mississippi State, MS 39762

662-325-2001