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

[Baracco, Andrew W]

From: acb-l-bounces at acb.org [mailto:acb-l-bounces at acb.org] On Behalf Of
Mitch Pomerantz
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:28 PM
To: leadership at acb.org; 'Acb-l'; announce at acb.org
Subject: [acb-l] Recruiting Mentors and Mentees Part I

 

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

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