[Cabs] Successful Seminar at CSDB

Thu May 21 05:04:22 UTC 2009

Hello Nimer,
Thank you for your interest in CABS and the NFB in general.  it is good to 
hear your perspective, and i am looking forward to getting to know you 
better.  I sincerely hope that you can begin attending the conference calls, 
and can help us to further mentoring opportunities at CSDB for the students 
there.  Thank you.
Sincerely,
Marty Rahn
President, Colorado Association of Blind Students,
Vice President, national Federation of The Blind of Colorado (Greeley 
Chapter)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nimer Jaber" <nimerjaber1 at gmail.com>
To: "Colorado Association of Blind Students List" <cabs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Cabs] Successful Seminar at CSDB

> Hello to all CABsters,
>
> Firstly, I would like to thank Mr. Nijat Worley for directing me to this 
> association and email list. Nijat and I have known each other for a long 
> time, and we are good friends.
> My name is Nimer Jaber. Some of you will know who I am, while others do 
> not. I joined this list in the hopes of gaining some knowledge regarding 
> the operations of the Federation and the Colorado Association of Blind 
> Students. Due to working hard to graduate from high school, I have not 
> been as active on the mailing lists as I should have been, however I would 
> like to change that. Also, with the exception of this month, I would like 
> to begin attending the telephone conferences.
> Introductions aside however, this email grabbed my interest as I was a 
> former CSDB student. I attended the school for three years, and I can tell 
> you that a mentor type program _really would be useful to the students at 
> CSDB. Sure they had mentors, but most of them were older through career 
> connect on AFB's website or through the role model team which again, is 
> comprised of primarily older individuals. I went back to public school, 
> and I can tell you that attending a public school with individuals who can 
> see and attending CSDB where you have no concept of how basic things are 
> accomplished are totally different. To shorten this up, I am planning on 
> attending the CSDB transition program next year in order to receive 
> financial assistance with housing while attending college for Political 
> Science at UCCS. I fully support a mentor type program, and I would fully 
> cooperate in facilitating an exchange of ideas between students on the 
> CSDB campus, staff/administration on the campus and the Colorado Student 
> division leaders/members via phone conference or email list.
> Please notify me with details of how I can be of assistance, and I will 
> see what I can do. I am known around the CSDB sphere, and wield quite a 
> bit of influence amongst both the student and administration sector.
>
> Thank you for your time, and I look forward to any replies regarding this 
> matter.
>
> Sincerely,
> Nimer Jaber
>
> Arielle Silverman wrote:
>> Hi CABSters,
>>
>> We did indeed have an excellent visit to CSDB yesterday, and I was
>> honored to be a part of it. I think the students' enthusiasm really
>> reminded all of us why we do the things we do to keep CABS alive.
>>
>> I've been thinking a lot about our visit and especially the warm
>> reception we got from the CSDB officials, and their invitation for us
>> to come back in September. I think we can do a lot of good by keeping
>> in touch with these students over the years and, whether or not they
>> decide to join CABS, offering them our mentorship, wisdom, and
>> experience.
>>
>> I wonder if we can set up a partnership with CSDB and especially the
>> transitioning students (perhaps juniors, seniors and postgrads) and
>> maybe match one or two of their students with each of us to continue
>> contact between our visits? That way we can mentor them while they're
>> applying to colleges, looking for jobs, etc. I recognize not all  of
>> their students are college-bound but any of them can benefit from
>> having a blind mentor. I also suspect that more of these students
>> would be college-bound if they were exposed to successful blind
>> college students and had the information and resources to pursue a
>> college education.
>>
>> So what do you guys think about setting up this kind of program and
>> maybe having monthly conference calls for all the CSDB student
>> participants and mentors, and then arranging visits two or three times
>> a year with information as well as a fun event?
>>
>> This is obviously still an immature idea but, as membership committee
>> chairman, I would be willing to head this up if a group of you are
>> interested in participating.
>>
>> Arielle
>>
>> On 5/16/09, Melissa Green<graduate56 at juno.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you all who participated.
>>> Thank you to the center for the chocolate coins.  They were a hit with 
>>> the
>>> students.
>>> Yesterday, five members of cabs hosted a seminar at csdb.  19 students
>>> participated in three break out sessions.  The sessions concerned 
>>> college
>>> and social issues, Technology, and independent travel.  Even though 
>>> these
>>> were the topics covered.  Many times the discussions went deeper than 
>>> those
>>> topics.
>>> For example, in the travel group, which I was co-facilitating, we 
>>> discussed
>>> being picked on in school.
>>> There were also some humorous moments as well.  For example, in the 
>>> social
>>> group arielle was asked how can you date someone for more than two 
>>> weeks.
>>> After the break out sessions, we discussed the importnace of the 
>>> national
>>> federation of the blind and both the colorado asociation of blind 
>>> students
>>> and the national asociation of  blind students.  In the beginning of the
>>> seminar, Mr. Tutt Addressed us all.  He informed the students that we 
>>> were
>>> their rolemodels and that we would be coming back there to be involved 
>>> with
>>> the students and to discuss their future.
>>> Mr. Tutt also stayed through out most of the seminar and observed the 
>>> break
>>> out sessions.
>>> At the end of the seminar, many of the students gave us their contact
>>> information and thanked us for coming to be with them on a thursday 
>>> night.
>>> We have been invited to do another seminar on September 17th and to
>>> participate in some way in their homecoming activities on the 19th.
>>> i believe that everyone in volved left the activity center in a very 
>>> good
>>> mood.  As well as feeling more inspired and energized.
>>> Melissa Green
>>> The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass
>>> yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
>>>
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