Posting and Hiring Interveners

Are you looking to hire an intervener?  Consider where most new interveners said they learned about their position and applied.

 According to a survey of interveners in the foundational weekend training series:

• 45% were informed of the posted intervener position and told they would be a good fit;

• 29% of interveners were asked by their districts to apply for the intervener position; 

• 14% saw an intervener job posting on the district website or heard about it within the district;

• 12% were already working with the student who was identified with severe multiple disabilities and then identified with combined hearing and vision loss (deafblindness) and needed an intervener; and

• 0% saw a job posting on the internet and applied.