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

Requirements

• 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

Best Practices

• 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.