[Iabs-talk] FW: Mentoring Project Seeking Students and Professionals Who Are Legally Blind

[Liz Bottner]

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Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 8:37 AM



 

Subject: Mentoring Project Seeking Students and Professionals Who
AreLegallyBlind

 

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 youfor your time and consideration of this request.  Please contact
Jamie O'Mally at 662-325-2001 or atrrtc2 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