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

Fri Mar 23 19:27:42 UTC 2012

Hi Sharon,

I requested of all NCABS members and leaders who contacted disability-related offices at universities to forward the contact information that they used to me.  I have not received much of it yet.  When I get it, I will update the Excel spreadsheet that we have been using.

I was forwarding it onto the list in hopes that our members would specifically take advantage of it.  We can each make our own efforts to spread the word, too, but I don't want it to become an NCABS-sponsored activity because I think we have enough going on as it is.

As for vendors, I don't know the final total.  I will be discussing that with the super conference planning committee in the next few weeks.  I don't expect that anything positive could come from trying to figure out who gets credit for which vendor.  There were some vendors that were on the super conference planning committee's contact list that claimed that they had not been contacted, and NCABS had to recruit them.

A final total is an important number to have, but I don't think we need to dig deeper than that.  Contact information is good, too, of course.

Take care,

Justin

Justin M. Salisbury
Undergraduate Student
The Honors College
East Carolina University
salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”    —MARGARET MEAD

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From: ncabs-bounces at nfbnet.org [ncabs-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of sharon_newton [sharon_newton at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 2:25 PM
To: North Carolina Association of Blind Students List
Subject: Re: [Ncabs] Employment Mentoring Program for College Students who      are Legally Blind

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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