Kathy Goodson is the chair of the mentorship committee.

How to get started…

Join: Join SCRID, complete your membership profile so that you will be featured in the member directory and get started.

Identify Competencies/Establish Goals: It is best to identify the competencies you want to develop, the goals you want to achieve, or issues you want to tackle.

Mentor Others or Seek Mentoring: SCRID mentoring is meant to foster and harness the peer-to-peer mentoring paradigm, which means that each of us can be a mentor in some areas and need mentoring in others.  We want to honor what each of us bring to the task of interpreting.

Mentoring Tools: SCRID offers a set of tools to facilitate your mentoring process.

Enrich and Engage: You can enrich SCRID by contributing your wisdom through articles, blog posts and discussion forums.

Frequently Asked Questions

MENTORSHIP CHAIR JOB DESCRIPTION

Reports To: SCRID Executive Board
Status: Volunteer

POSITION PURPOSE
To provide members with mentoring opportunities and or mentor training.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Recruit new members
  • Recruit mentors and mentees
  • Maintain communication with the regional representatives regarding mentoring in their respective areas
  • Provide resources, such as mentoring and  mentor training to members
  • To create opportunities for mentees at SCRID functions by arranging  mentees to interpret at Board meetings and General meetings
  • Check SCRID email a minimum of once per week unless there is an event within the region
  • Submit a monthly report
  • Submit an annual report for the annual membership meeting
  • Attend 75% of all board meetings
  • Manage the region budget

TRAINING, EXPERIENCE, ABILITIES

  • Current RID or NAD certification preferred
  • Experienced in a mentoring relationship as a mentor
  • Interpreting experience preferred; or graduate of an ITP/IPP
  • SCRID member in good standing;
  • Good written, verbal & ASL/PSE communication skills;
  • Sensitive to members needs;
  • Public speaking skills;

ABILITY TO

  • Self-motivation; people skills; organizational skills
  • Interface in a mutually cooperative way with SCRID members, Board and volunteers;
  • Work as part of a team with others;
  • Think “outside-of-the-box”;

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

  • Ability to effectively communicate multiple projects and tasks.
  • Computer literate to post board reports to SCRID webpage
  • Email literate
Source: 2009-11 Board of Directors and Mentor Committee Chair

We have permission to put WRIEC link on our website.  The grant for this project ends in Sept.  They have not heard if it will be re-funded.  

I am working on the language to put up on the website and am gathering names to add to our list of mentors.

For the January meeting we have at least 5 mentee/mentor relationships for the Board meeting and/or the workshop.  For future meetings/workshops I will send emails out to the local ITP/IPP to see if any students are interested in this opportunity