Assistants Mentoring Program, Assist

Purpose

The Assistant Mentoring Program, Assist, supports audiology assistants and audiologists, and SLPAs and SLPs in achieving their professional goals together. While working toward their goals, both mentor and mentee will gain specific knowledge and skills in mentoring relationships and team building. Mentoring pairs will acquire information about professionalism, advocacy, and ASHA resources, and they will have opportunities to network with other program participants.

Benefits

  • Critical thinking skills development
  • Help with workplace challenges
  • Focused professional growth
  • Open doors to new opportunities
  • Networking
  • Months of goal-reaching
  • Mentor resources
  • and much more, all at no cost!
Assistant Mentoring checklist

2024 Timeline

  • Program Dates: June 1–December 1, 2024
  • Mentor Enrollment Opens May 1–31
  • Mentee Enrollment Opens May 8–31

Eligibility

Mentees must

  • be an ASHA-certified audiology assistant or SLPA, be state credentialed as an audiology assistant or SLPA or state-equivalent support personnel and
  • be currently employed at time of application.

Mentors must

  • be an ASHA-certified audiologist or SLP and
  • have a minimum of 9 months of experience supervising an audiology assistant or SLPA.

How to Enroll

As a mentee

  • Sign into the online system (select the "Join Now" button) using your ASHA login email and password. If you do not have an ASHA login email and password, you must create an account first.
  • Answer all the questions to create your Mentee Profile.
  • After creating your Mentee Profile, select “Mentors” in the left panel, and view Mentor Profiles to find the right match for you.
  • Send a mentoring request to two to three mentors who match you well based on shared areas of interest. To do this, select “Connect” and “Request Mentoring Connection” for each mentor of interest.
  • Enrollment is complete once a mentor accepts your request.

As a mentor

  • Sign into the online system (select the "Join Now" button) using your ASHA login email and password. If you do not have an ASHA login email and password, you must create an account first.
  • Answer all the questions to create your Mentor Profile.
  • Once complete, your Mentor Profile will be visible to mentees, who will then send requests to connect. Mentors may choose to mentor up to two mentees.
  • Enrollment is complete once you have accepted at least one request for mentoring.

Contact Information

Email assist@asha.org with an questions.

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