Dear NOMC As you may know, the Orientation and Mobility Specialists Association, OMSA was created to be a membership organization for all mobility instructors, including NOMC. Here is a link to a new blog that has been created for new professionals. ****** As you are aware, we are creating a blog called New Professionals in Mobility designed to allow new professionals in the fields of Orientation and Mobility to discuss ideas and offer and receive support from other new professionals. http://newprofessionalsinmobility.blog/ We are sharing this information with you in the hope that you will post to the site so that we can continue to work out the kinks before announcing the blog to the profession. We also welcome any feedback from you about your experience using the site. Eventually, we would like to ask you to share the attached letter with your current students and those that have graduated between 2017 and now. When that time comes (probably at the beginning of the fall session or semester) we hope that you will help us by announcing this blog to your graduates and current students. We hope this new group will assist in creating a community focused on bettering our field so that we can continue to improve our services to people who are blind or visually impaired. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us with questions or responses. Thank you for your time. Meredith Bryde, COMS, GDMI- Meredith.Bryde at LeaderDog.Org <mailto:Meredith.Bryde at LeaderDog.Org> Lukas Franck, COMS,GDMI- lfranck at seeingeye.org <mailto:lfranck at seeingeye.org> Hailey McManus, COMS - hmcmanus1994 at gmail.com <mailto:hmcmanus1994 at gmail.com> Lukas Franck Senior Consultant for Special Projects The Seeing Eye P.O. Box 375, Morristown, NJ 07963-0375 (mail) 1 Seeing Eye Way, Morristown, NJ 07960-3378 (deliveries) 973-539-4425 ext.1755 | lfranck at seeingeye.org <mailto:lfranck at seeingeye.org> | <http://www.SeeingEye.org> www.SeeingEye.org _____ Your support helps us create extraordinary teams. <http://www.seeingeye.org/donate> Please help The Seeing Eye by making a donation today Edward C. Bell, Ph.D., CRC, NOMC, Director, Professional Development and Research Institute on Blindness Louisiana Tech University 600 Mayfield Ave / 210 Woodard Hall PO Box 3158 Ruston LA 71272 Office: 318.257.4554 Fax: 318.257.2259 <mailto:ebell at latech.edu> ebell at latech.edu <http://www.pdrib.com> www.pdrib.com ************* "I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." -- Stephen Jay Gould