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"To empower people with vision loss to realize their full potential, and to shape the community's vision of that potential.”
VISION 21 – A Fund for the Future is Cleveland Sight Center’s fundraising campaign to help renovate our facility and provide continued service to individuals of all ages who are blind or visually impaired.
Accessible IRS Tax Forms
The IRS Alternative Media Center is working to make IRS tax forms and publications fully accessible and Section 508 compliant. These "talking tax forms" work with MSAA compliant screen readers as well as Dragon Naturally Speaking Voice Recognition Software. Learn more about these forms
The Northeast Corner
A quarterly column by Cleveland Sight Center Senior Orientation & Mobility Instructor, Steve Albro. Access The Northeast Corner
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Annual Meeting
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Noon – 1:30 pm
at Cleveland Skating Club
5th Annual White Cane Walk
Saturday, June 5, 2010
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
at Crocker Park in Westlake.
Access event information at WhiteCaneWalk.kintera.org
in the News!
Cleveland Orchestra Music Studies Program
Learn about special services for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Low Vision Self-Help Support Groups
Our licensed social workers assist clients in starting and running community based, low vision self-help support groups. These groups are run by clients, volunteers, and/or professionals. They are a place to come together to share your experiences, insights and allow you to spend time with others who share the challenge of vision loss. Low vision self-help groups exist in senior living buildings, libraries, churches, temples, and senior centers. Our social workers will help you find a group and/or give you the tools to help you get a group started. Low Vision Support Groups.
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Double Your Impact -
Lennon Challenge Grant: Phase 2
The Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust’s fundraising challenge to Cleveland Sight Center continues. For every dollar our donors give to the agency's capital campaign, VISION 21, the Trust will match the donation dollar for dollar (up to $1,000 per donation). We thank our generous donors for helping us to exceed our first-year goal, and ask for support in meeting our second-year goal of $33,333 as part of this three-year challenge.
Make a donation today and double your impact!
5th Annual White Cane Walk
Please join Cleveland Sight Center for our 5th Annual White Cane Walk on Saturday, June 5, at Crocker Park in Westlake from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. This event helps to raise awareness of the White Cane Law, as well as funds for programs and services for individuals in our community of all ages who are blind or visually impaired.
Access a photo gallery from last year’s event.
Access a video from last year’s event.
Learn about Ohio’s White Cane Law.
Cleveland International Film Festival
Community Partnership/Discount Tickets
The 34th Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) will be held March 18 – 28, 2010 at Tower City Cinemas in Tower City Center. We are pleased to once again be a CIFF community partner and be able to increase awareness of Cleveland Sight Center services via the Festival. We are sponsoring the film Warrior Champions, an inspirational story about individuals who overcome their disabilities and go on to achieve extraordinary success. We will provide audio description at select screenings for our clients. Obtain more information about this service via email or by calling 216-791-8118, ext. 4575. Discount tickets for any film in the festival may be purchased using code “CSC”. Access discount information. To learn more about the Festival, go to www.clevelandfilm.org. Please join us in supporting this event!
Fundamentals for Success Program
Celebrates 35th Anniversary!
Cleveland Sight Center’s comprehensive summer program teaching teens and young adults who are blind or visually impaired critical daily living skills to help them successfully transition from high school to college, or directly to work, is celebrating its 35th anniversary. The program, Fundamentals for Success, promotes independent living in a residential apartment setting, paid real-life work experience, and cutting-edge computer technology training, all under the instruction and supervision of vision rehabilitation professionals. This year’s session runs from Sunday, June 20 to Friday, July 30, 2010.
Access 2010 program information
Access Fundamentals for Success video
Learn more about Fundamentals for Success
Cleveland Sight Center Awarded Three-Year CARF Accreditation!
The agency has been awarded its tenth consecutive, three-year accreditation from CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities), for its Comprehensive Vision Rehabilitation Services. CARF is an international, independent, nonprofit accrediting body. Cleveland Sight Center successfully met rigorous CARF guidelines for service and quality at the highest level of accreditation possible. Excerpts from the CARF report include:
"The organization is complimented for its highly regarded programs and services, strong leadership and committed staff members, and conformance to the CARF standards…"
"The methodology that has been developed to assess the skill level of persons served by the organization has been carefully developed… The post-assessment determines the success level of the training, measuring the extent to which persons served have acquired the skills that enable them to meet their goals… This post-assessment provides data to compile the outcomes of services provided… This is a model that could be beneficial to other community agencies."
Envision the Possibilities
Access “Envision the Possibilities” – a video about Cleveland Sight Center services in the words of our clients.
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