Associations - Mentoring Programs - Steno

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	I
1	State or Country	Association?	Informal Mentoring?	Formal Mentoring?	Contact1	Contact2	Notes	MISC: stenosearch maintains a listing current as of 2012 https://stenosearch.com/_connect/associations.htm
2	Alabama	Alabama Court Reporters Association			President@alcra.org	https://www.alcra.org		MISC: Current as of August 2019. Blank boxes mean the answer is unknown. Every “unknown” organization was contacted for comment.
3	Alaska	Alaska Shorthand Reporters				https://www.alaskashorthandreporters.org		NA means not applicable, which usually means they have formal mentoring.
4	Arizona	Arizona Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes		https://www.acraonline.org/Mentors		Compiled by Christopher Day, Stenonymous.com August 2019
5	Arkansas	Arkansas Court Reporters Association	N/A	Yes		https://acraonline.us/about-us/	I was told that when a reporter passes the exam they go through a mentoring program.	Thanks to all respondents, and Joshua Edwards for coming up with the webinar that gave rise to this idea
6	California	California Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	https://www.cal-ccra.org	https://www.cal-ccra.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103:mentoring-program&catid=19:site-content&Itemid=276		NCRA keeps a list of mentoring associations here https://www.ncra.org/home/students-teachers/find-a-mentor/Other-court-reporting-mentoring-programs
7	California	Deposition Reporters Association of California	NA	Yes	https://www.caldra.org	https://www.caldra.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=51:mentoring&catid=24:mentoring&Itemid=124
8	California	California Official Court Reporters Association				https://cocra.org
9	Canada	Alberta Shorthand Reporters Association				https://asraonline.com
10	Canada	British Columbia Shorthand Reporters Association				https://www.bcsra.net
11	Canada	Chartered Shorthand Reporters Association of Ontario				http://csrao.net
12	Colorado	Colorado Court Reporters Association	Yes	No	Jenny.melius@gmail.com	http://www.ccra.info
13	Connecticut	Connecticut Court Reporters Association	Yes	No		https://www.courtreportersct.org	Upon reaching out to Connecticut they were very responsive and seem very open to helping students find mentors.
14	Delaware	Delaware Court Reporters Association	None	None	JeanneCahill@delaware.gov	This association is no longer active	This association is no longer active.
15	Florida	Florida Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	https://www.fcraonline.org/mentoring-program	https://www.fcraonline.org
16	France	Association Francaise des Stenotypistes de Conferences				http://www.stenotypiste.com
17	Georgia	Georgia Court Reporters Association	No	No	Contact@georgiacourtreporters.org	http://georgiacourtreporters.org	Georgia used to be two organizations and have apparently combined into one sometime between 2012 and 2019. Even though they said they have no mentoring, I would always suggest students try to connect to working reporters.
18	Hawaii	Hawaii Court Reporters and Captioners Association				https://www.hawaiicourtreportersassociation.com/#
19	Idaho	Idaho Court Reporters Association			icraboard@gmail.com	https://www.idahocra.com
20	Illinois	Illinois Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	http://www.ilcra.org/MentorRequestForm.asp	http://www.ilcra.org
21	Indiana	Indiana Court Reporters Association				https://www.incraonline.com
22	Iowa	Iowa Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes		https://www.iacra.org	Iowa stated they work very closely with the school and mentor students.
23	Kansas	Kansas Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	https://www.kcra.net/Students	https://www.kcra.net
24	Kentucky	Kentucky Court Reporters Association				https://kycra.wildapricot.org
25	Louisiana	Louisiana Court Reporters Association				http://lcraboard.org
26	Maine	Maine Court Reporters Association	Sort of. See notes.	No.		https://www.mainecourtreporting.com/contact-us	I was told students can ask reporters directly off their referral / member list.
27	Maryland	Maryland Court Reporters Association	NA			http://www.marylandcourtreporters.org/index.php
28	Massachusetts	Massachusetts Court Reporters Association		Yes	https://www.mcraonline.com/students	https://www.mcraonline.com
29	Michigan	Michigan Association of Professional Court Reporters	Yes	No		https://www.mapcr.org
30	Minnesota	Minnesota Association of Verbatim Reporters & Captioners	NA	Yes	http://www.mavrc.org/students/mentor-mentee-guidelines.php	http://www.mavrc.org
31	Mississippi	Mississippi Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	https://mscra.com/students/mentor-program/	https://mscra.com
32	Missouri	Missouri Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes		https://mocra.org	NCRA's website as of August 2019 lists Missouri as having mentoring. Missouri has not independently responded to me.
33	Montana	Montana Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes		https://www.mtcra.com/contact/	Montana reports that several mentored students have gone on to be working reporters.
34	Nebraska	Nebraska Court Reporters Association	Yes	No		http://www.necra.us
35	Nebraska	Nebraska Official Court Reporters Association	No	No		https://supremecourt.nebraska.gov/nebraska-official-court-reporters-association	Admittedly, I did not reach out to this organization, so I do not know definitively that they don’t do mentoring, but their stated purpose is official court reporters, so it’s unlikely.
36	Nevada	Nevada Court Reporters Association				http://nvcra.org
37	New Hampshire	New Hampshire Court Reporters Association				http://www.nhcra.com
38	New Jersey	Certified Court Reporters Association of New Jersey	NA	Yes	ccra-nj@bowermanagementservices.com	https://ccranj.memberclicks.net
39	New Mexico	New Mexico Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	nmcramail@gmail.com	https://www.nmcra.com	Students are encouraged to email the association to be connected with a working reporter
40	New York	New York State Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	Nyscra@bowermanagementservices.com	http://www.nyscra.org
41	North Carolina	North Carolina Court Reporters Association	Yes	No		http://ncreporters.org	North Carolina reports that while they do not have formal mentoring, they do reach out to students periodically and believe mentoring is vital to success.
42	North Dakota	North Dakota Court Reporter’s Association			https://www.facebook.com/North-Dakota-Court-Reporters-Association-248185295195429/	http://northdakotacra.org	As of writing, the website appears to be under construction.
43	Ohio	Ohio Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	http://www.ocraonline.com/aws/OCRA/pt/sd/news_article/94100/_self/layout_details/false	http://www.ocraonline.com/aws/OCRA/pt/sp/home_page
44	Oklahoma	Oklahoma Court Reporters Association	Yes	No		https://www.ocraonline.org	I am told that the educational programs for court reporting in Oklahoma reach out to working reporters for students as does the state association.
45	Oregon	Oregon Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes		https://orcra.org
46	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania Court Reporters Association	Not really. See notes.	No		https://www.pcra.com	PCRA had a mentoring program, but apparently received feedback that teachers were sufficient mentors. Students are encouraged to get connected with working reporters.
47	Rhode Island	Rhode Island Shorthand Reporters Association				https://www.risra.com
48	South Carolina	South Carolina Court Reporters Association				https://sccra.net
49	South Dakota	South Dakota Court Reporters Association	Yes	No		http://www.southdakotacourtreporters.org	The president noted that while there is no formal program, many reporters in the state are happy to mentor students.
50	Tennessee	Tennessee Court Reporters Association	Yes	No		https://www.tncra.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=414	Students may write to the student committee to receive a mentor.
51	Texas	Texas Court Reporters Association				https://www.tcra-online.com
52	Texas	Dallas Court Reporters Association	Yes	No		https://www.dcra.com	I am told DCRA has many events throughout the year and the networking that results from those events often leads to informal mentoring or mentor type relationships.
53	Texas	Houston Court Reporters Association				https://www.hcra.co
54	United Kingdom	British Institute of Verbatim Reporters	Sort of? See notes.	No		http://bivr.org.uk	I was told that some BIVR members do mentor, but the organization itself could not tell me more due to the General Data Protection Regulation.
55	United States of America	National Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	https://www.ncra.org/	https://www.ncra.org/home/students-teachers/find-a-mentor	New reporters who are not enrolled in a school can also use the NCRA Sourcebook to find a working reporter and mentor.
56	United States of America	Global Alliance of Speech-To-Text Captioning	NA	Planning to	Info@speechtotextcaptioning.org	https://speechtotextcaptioning.org	As of writing this association is new and therefore could not have a mentoring program.
57	United States of America	National Verbatim Reporters Association				https://nvra.org
58	United States of America	United States Court Reporters Association	No	No		http://www.uscra.org	Interested in federal court? USCRA stated it does not have its own mentoring program, but did tell me that if I was interered in federal court, they would be happy to find a reporter in my area.
59	Utah	Utah Court Reporters Association	No	No		http://www.utcra.com	As I understand, Utah Court Reporters has no official mentoring, but some board members take time to distribute information to students or potential students.
60	Vermont	None	None	None		None	From my research there is no court reporting association in Vermont. I look forward to a day I can say I’m wrong. I am told the association that was there disbanded fifteen years before 2019.
61	Virginia	Virginia Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes		https://vcra.net	As of writing I am told they have even mentored out of state students who may be relocating to VA
62	Washington	Washington Court Reporters Association	NA	Yes	https://washingtoncourtreporters.org/mentoring/	https://washingtoncourtreporters.org
63	Washington, D.C.	None	None	None		None	Added for the sake of completeness. There was a Greater Washington DC Shorthand Reporters, but it has been defunct several years.
64	West Virginia	West Virginia Court Reporters Association				http://www.wvcra.com
65	Wisconsin	Wisconsin Court Reporters Association				http://www.wicourtreporters.org
66	Wyoming	None	None	None		http://wpcra.wildapricot.org	As best I can tell, whatever state association existed is inactive.
67	United States of America	New Reporter Mentoring	NA	Yes		https://www.facebook.com/groups/2341321759454655/?ref=share	Facebook group started to help new reporters find mentors to proofread for them.
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