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10th Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award recognizes significant efforts by an individual or group of individuals to improve public health approaches for children’s vision and eye health The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) has issued a call for nominations for the tenth annual “Bonnie Strickland

Basim served as an intern with the NCCVEH this academic year while completing his Master of Public Health degree from Northwestern University. He shares his personal journey living with Stargardt disease. From the trenches of adversity, I pen this narrative—not as a plea for sympathy, but as a testament to sheer indomitability. I am Basim

Stephanie Klas, mother of two sons with visual impairment and member of the Advisory Committee to the National Center for Children's Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness, offers this guest article about her family’s experience with navigating transportation and independence as her son transitions into adulthood. Happy Low Vision Awareness Month! Low vision is

The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness to Commemorate 15th Anniversary Milestone by Launching a Year-long Series of Webinars, Blogs, Educational Activities, And More, to Promote Healthy Vision for Kids The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) is celebrating its 15th Anniversary in 2024.

By Samantha Salcedo, MPH Candidate, Northwestern University Verian Wedeking is the program director of the Casey Eye Community Outreach Program at Oregon Health and Science University. During the recent seminar on “Reimaging How we Engage Communities from Identification into Care” hosted by Prevent Blindness, he discussed the program’s mission and work to eliminate preventable blindness

The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) has announced the recipient of the ninth annual “Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award” as optician Danielle Crull, ABOM, author, business owner of A Child’s Eyes, organizer of The Pumpkin Patch Project, and founder of the Truffles the Kitty Organization (TKO).

Annual Award Recognizes Outstanding Public Health Efforts to Improve the Vision Health of Children in the United States The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) has issued a call for nominations for the ninth annual “Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award.” The award recognizes significant efforts by an

by Stephanie Klas, member of the Advisory Committee to the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health Many years ago, as a young girl in school, I began having problems seeing the chalkboard. My parents took me to an optometrist and my vision was able to be corrected with glasses. So naturally, that was

The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) has announced the recipient of the eighth annual “Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award” as Donny W. Suh, MD, FAAP, MBA, FACS, Chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University