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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
Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation
Tuition Assistance
Small Business Development
Prevocational Training
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
Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation
Tuition Assistance
Small Business Development
Prevocational Training
Provides an annual summer and winter retreat for blind or visually impaired adults. Seasonal activities may include camping, cookouts, camp fires, hiking, boating, water skiing, jet skiing, tubing, swimming or cross country skiing, snow-shoeing, hiking and indoor board and card games.

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Recreational Activities/Sports
Visual Impairments
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.

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Visual Impairments
Low Vision Aids
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Works to improve the lives of individuals who are visually impaired. Offers information and referral for equipment, talking books and training programs. Offers various recreation activities throughout the year.

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Visual Impairments
General Recreational Activities/Sports
Specialized Information and Referral
Provides a support group for older adults experiencing any degree of vision loss or impairment.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Visual Impairments
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
Provides a low-vision/blind support group. Dinner is provided.

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Visual Impairments
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
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.

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Visual Impairments
Small Business Development
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 relay services for individuals with impaired vision. During these relay calls, the Communication Assistant (CA) will type at a normal speed, but the message will come across at a rate of 15 words per minute, allowing users to achieve a more readable rhythm. Users can also request increased or decreased rates of text in increments of 5 words per minute.

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Telecommunication Relay Services
Visual Impairments
Offers arts and craft instruction, health and wellness programs, and computer classes for those with visual challenges.

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Recreational Activities/Sports
Visual Impairments
Arts and Crafts Instruction
Computer Literacy Training Programs
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.

Categories

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction
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
Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation
Tuition Assistance
Small Business Development
Prevocational Training
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
Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation
Tuition Assistance
Small Business Development
Prevocational Training
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 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.

Categories

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction
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
Orientation and Mobility Training
Visual Impairments
Vocational Rehabilitation
Tuition Assistance
Small Business Development
Prevocational Training
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.

Categories

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

Visual Impairments
Low Vision Aids
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
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.

Categories

Visual Impairments
Small Business Development
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.

Categories

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction
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.

Categories

Visual Impairments
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Maintains information about community resources that are appropriate for people with visual impairments. Offers encouragement for parents of blind children and newly blind people.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Visual Impairments