Networking Peer Group Support

What Your Group Gets

Private online community/discussion board for your group members to communicate and share information
Private library of resources shared by your group/community members
A directory of current group participants
Support for a regular cadence of group meetings via Zoom or other virtual meeting space with a dial-in option
Your community call listed on the URMIA event calendar, if desired
Meeting or social event space at any URMIA conference (limited to immediately before or immediately after the URMIA conference program) based on room availability

All of your group’s members must be current members of URMIA or willing to join
Your group leaders inform URMIA of any changes to the membership roster
A minimum of 90 days advance notice from the beginning of the conference would be required to set up an in-person meeting. Such additional sessions must be consistent with URMIA’s contracts and arranged in such a way that URMIA does not incur unplanned, uncompensated additional expenses.
Identify one point of contact as the group representative to keep URMIA apprised of changes to the group’s roster, meetings that need to be set up, etc.
Encourage discussion on the community discussion board.
Monitor the conversations for inappropriate content.
Share URMIA events and resources when appropriate.
Administrator Rights Agreement signed

Have at least 2 champions/volunteer leaders for the group to share the workload of planning meetings, encouraging online discussion, etc.
The SEC URMIA Network Group piloted this outreach and said that the creation of the group helped create a bond between the participants. They became comfortable enough with one another to share openly and ask the tough questions within the safe confines of this SEC group.