[Ncabs] Employment Mentoring Program for College Students who are Legally Blind

[sharon_newton]

Dear Justin -

This is GREAT!.Did you see the e-mail about the chemistry workshop for blind high 
schoolers?  How are we planning to disseminate your e-mail below?  I can send it to the 
college DSS offices I contacted previously for the seminar - I have phone numbers and 
names I can phone contact before sending the e-mails for a "heads-up" to them.  Any chance 
anyone has a "group" in their address book of all the college DSS offices that  were 
contacted?

Just curious - how many vendors did NCABS get for the Exhibit Hall and how many did the 
super conference get?

Thanks!
Sharon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Salisbury, Justin Mark" <SALISBURYJ08 at students.ecu.edu>
To: <ncabs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:37 PM
Subject: [Ncabs] Employment Mentoring Program for College Students who are Legally Blind


The email below is brought to you courtesy of Shelby Ball, our National Association of 
Blind Students regional representative.

From: Jamie O'Mally [mailto:jomally at colled.msstate.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 3:18 PM
To: access alias
Subject: Employment Mentoring Program for College Students who are Legally Blind


Dear Colleague,
I am a researcher at the Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision at 
Mississippi State University, and I am contacting universities across the United States to 
ask your help in identifying 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 flyer to individuals or groups that might be interested. Students will be paired 
with mentors based on their 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. In 
addition to incentives, 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.  To learn more about this project, please 
visit<http://tiny.cc/mentoring-project><http://tiny.cc/mentoring-project>http://tiny.cc/mentoring-project.

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. If you are willing to distribute the attached 
flyers on our behalf to help us find participants, please respond and let us know. 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<tel:662-325-2001> or 
at<mailto:rrtc2 at colled.msstate.edu><mailto:rrtc2 at colled.msstate.edu>rrtc2 at colled.msstate.edu<mailto:rrtc2 at colled.msstate.edu> 
if you have any questions, require additional information, or would like to receive copies 
of the flyer in Braille.

Thank you!
Jamie O’Mally

Dr. Jamie O’Mally, Assistant Research Professor
Research & Training Center on Blindness & Low Vision
Mississippi State University
P.O. Box 6189
Mississippi State, MS 39762
662-325-2001<tel:662-325-2001>

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