www.dmd-aapd.org

Dear Employment Coordinators,

	We have been preparing for this year's 
Disability Mentoring Day in Vermont.   Disability 
Mentoring Day� is a large-scale, broad-based 
effort designed to promote career development for 
students and other job seekers with disabilities 
(mentees) through hands-on career exploration, 
job shadowing, and internship or employment 
opportunities, and matching of mentee/mentor 
relationships.  Disability Mentoring Day: Career 
Development for the 21st Century, will be 
commemorated on Wednesday, October 18, 2006 as 
the official kick-off for a year-round effort.

	We invite you to participate in this 
annual event to promote the career exploration of 
people with disabilities.  Our local web site 
includes all the materials and information you 
should need to participate in DMD.  Check our 
site at: 
http://www.uvm.edu/~cdci/programs/vtapse/dmd/index.html

	The site includes mentor and mentee 
applications and other useful links.  We 
encourage you to recruit mentees first, then 
recruit employers to match their request.  In 
order to keep track of all mentor partnerships 
throughout the state, we ask that you maintain 
the attached Mentor Log 2006.  This way we can 
submit our report to the national office of AAPD 
in Washington DC.

We will be hosting an event at UVM on Wednesday 
October 18 from 9:00-12:00 at Memorial Lounge, 
Waterman Building.  This event will include a 
welcoming with breakfast, a performance of 
"Bill's Bill" by the Awareness Theater Company, 
followed by group tours of various departments 
within or near the University of Vermont.  More 
details of the group tours will be coming shortly.

Please check our web site and consider getting 
involved with DMD if you have not already done 
so.  The mentor concept is a great way opening 
doors for people with disabilities and potential 
employers.

If you have any questions, please email me or 
contact any of our steering committee members.

Thank you,

Vermont DMD Steering Committee:

Bryan Dague: [log in to unmask]
Dale Hindmarsh [log in to unmask]
Becky Leggett: [log in to unmask]
Karen Hussey: [log in to unmask],
Jenna Mazza: [log in to unmask]
Lindsey Hescock: [log in to unmask]
Michael Kingsbury: [log in to unmask]
Michelle Stevens: [log in to unmask]
Stefani Hartsfield: [log in to unmask]
Tara.Pfeiffer-Norrell: [log in to unmask]
Terry Lavely: [log in to unmask]
Jeff Scott: [log in to unmask]
Eric Johnson: [log in to unmask]
Susan Patch-Crandall: [log in to unmask]


-- 
Bryan Dague, Ed.D.
University of Vermont
Center on Disability & Community Inclusion
Mann Hall, 3rd Floor
208 Colchester Ave.
Burlington, VT 05405-1757

Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (802) 656-1345
Fax: (802) 656-1357
TTY: (802) 656-8499
Website: http://www.uvm.edu/~cdci/