AER is pleased to announce that we are relaunching
AER LIFT! LIFT stands for Leadership Initiatives Facilitate Teamwork and is designed
to empower members to become leaders
in AER, thereby assisting AER to fulfill its mission to support
professionals who provide education and rehabilitation services to people with
visual impairments. AER needs leaders
to provide
support to the association and our members
at both the local and international level!
Originally, AER LIFT was an in-person meeting held in the
Spring before the AER International Conference in July. However, the challenges
of the last decade or so have made it impossible to offer AER LIFT. We hope
that a virtual version of the types of presentations previously offered, and
recordings of these sessions, will bring back the spirit of AER LIFT to our
most important asset, our members.
For the
next several months, we will offer one session monthly via Zoom to help you build
leadership skills you can use at the Chapter, Division or Board level by
gaining a better understanding of AER. The first
session, January 30 at 7:00 PM EST, is “What You Always Wanted to Know
About AER, But Didn’t Know who To Ask” and will
focus on the general operations of AER,and
the structure of our Board of Directors, Divisions, and Chapters.