Prevent Blindness

As part of World Sight Day, Delta Gamma Fraternity alumnae Heather Patrick, CEO of Prevent Blindness Texas and Dr. jane edmond, Chair & Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Texas at Austin and President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, discuss eye and vision health across the lifespan! #WSD2024 #WorldSightDay #LoveYourEyes International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) https://lnkd.in/dAC7Pyjr

The National Center for Children's Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness is providing interactive Virtual Office HALF Hours. This is a time to receive answers to questions, join the dialog, listen in, or share your vision screening pearls of wisdom. Join your peers in the Virtual Office HALF Hour, hosted by Kay Nottingham Chaplin, EdD, even if you only want to hear answers to questions from other participants. When? Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at 1:00pm ET Visit: https://lnkd.in/ggm7bhhw

Alcon Children’s Vision Center Named Recipient of 10th Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award

Over 90 organizations across the country support the Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act. Prevent Blindness thanks all who are working hard to advocate passage of this sight-saving legislation to ensure children receive timely and needed vision care. Seen here, Paul M. Delatore, Prevent Blindness Board Member, discusses the legislation with Senator Ossoff of Georgia. You can take action and ask Congress to #SupportTheEDVIAct here: https://lnkd.in/d9UkNzrz

It’s #SportsEyeSafetyMonth! Check out “Historic Moments in Sports Eye Protection” from the American Academy of Ophthalmology: https://lnkd.in/dbsuBr9

Did you hear the news? Alcon Children’s Vision Center recipient of 10th Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award - Ophthalmology Times The Alcon Children’s Vision Center (ACVC) is the recipient of the 10th annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award from the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health (NCCVEH) at Prevent Blindness. The award will be formally presented on October 24, 2024, during a special program celebrating the 15th?Anniversary of the NCCVEH. “We know that providing children with the eyecare they need and deserve increases their chance of success in the classroom and helps put them on the path toward a lifetime of healthy vision,” said Jeff Todd, president and CEO of Prevent Blindness. “We congratulate the Alcon Children’s Vision Center on their receipt of the 10th?Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award and thank them for their tremendous efforts to make children’s vision a priority in their community.” Full story at: https://lnkd.in/g4PqJYEm

Join the School-Based Health Alliance, in partnership with Association of Clinicians for the Underserved and National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness, for a webinar on October 9, 2024, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET, focused on increasing access to vision health services for school-age children and adolescents. This session will identify common vision disorders among school-age children and adolescents while sharing various models of school-based vision care programs. Visit: https://lnkd.in/gd6JPcfF

We are thrilled to announce that the Alcon Children’s Vision Center has been named the recipient of the 2024 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award from the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness! ? Get all the details at: https://lnkd.in/gR6b8Eua Prevent Blindness Texas

Join us tomorrow, September 24 at 7 p.m. ET, for the next BlackDoctor.org Facebook Live Seeing Eye to Eye episode, "My Child Isn't Reading - Why?" Featured guests include Rhonda Jackson, Teacher for the Visually Impaired (TVI). D.C., Public Schools System (DCPS), Charlotte Akor MD, Pediatric and General Ophthalmologist, and Dr. Rush, Founder and CEO of Healthy Minds Psychology, Associates and The Center for Executive Functioning. The Seeing Eye to Eye series is a partnership between BlackDoctor.org, the National Eye Institute (NEI), the National Center for Children's Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness, and the Children's Vision Equity Alliance.

September is #SportsEyeSafetyMonth. Do you play pickleball? According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, a pickleball can travel up to 40 miles per hour during a serve and takes less than half a second to travel from one paddle to another. https://lnkd.in/gcvgxh6T