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Sponsors local community chapters that provide support services and general advocacy for the blind or visually impaired and their family members. Helps members find minor equipment, such as magnifying devices, and makes referrals to other local agencies.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments
Low Vision Aids
Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

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Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Offers information and referral services and provides printed materials regarding eye health and safety. Provides trained speakers who can discuss prevention of eye injuries, eye diseases, and related eye topics.

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Speakers/Speakers Bureaus
Visual Impairments
Disease/Disability Information
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Categories

Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Categories

Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Provides an opportunity for individuals with visual challenges to meet and socialize with others through educational and social classes. Topics include history, current events, travel, health and wellness, braille, bead classes, leather tooling and book club.

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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Social Clubs
Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.
Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Categories

Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Categories

Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Provides recreational and social activities for people with vision loss. Includes but is not limited to choral groups, attending music and theater performances, a drama club, arts and crafts, movie nights with audio description, day trips, and social events. All activities are facilitated for people with vision loss.

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Film Presentations
Social Clubs/Events
Arts and Crafts Instruction
Visual Impairments
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Categories

Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Categories

Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Offers people with vision loss the skills necessary to achieve and maintain independence through employment. Provides an assessment and an individualized training plan.
Provides training to help people with low vision to be independent in their homes. Services include assessment of needs, training with cooking utensils, cooking surfaces, telephones, controls for cooling/heating, cleaning procedures and use of equipment, and mobility training in the home and neighborhood. Provides assistive devices where indicated.

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Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Sponsors local community chapters that provide support services and general advocacy for the blind or visually impaired and their family members. Helps members find minor equipment, such as magnifying devices, and makes referrals to other local agencies.

Categories

Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments
Low Vision Aids
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Categories

Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.
Offers arts and craft instruction, health and wellness programs, and computer classes for those with visual challenges.

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Arts and Crafts Instruction
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Visual Impairments
Recreational Activities/Sports
Provides a place for anyone with visual challenges to talk with people who have lived through similar struggles.

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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Social Clubs
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Provides assessment to identify the individual's academic and vocational capabilities. Participants complete a variety of pencil and paper, computerized or simulated activities to determine their work kills, transferable skills, aptitudes, academic abilities and interests. A written report is forwarded to the client's referral source.

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Visual Impairments
Developmental Disabilities
Vocational Assessment
Ex-Offenders
Physical Disabilities
Homeless People
Provides opportunities for persons with physical disabilities to participate in sports by using adaptive equipment. Disabled persons are assisted by trained volunteers and participate in lessons with a certified instructor. Offers downhill skiing, water skiing, cycling, and kayaking.

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Physical Disabilities
Visual Impairments
Recreational Activities/Sports
Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Categories

Braille Instruction
Small Business Development
Orientation and Mobility Training
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Student Financial Aid
Visual Impairments
Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.