Saving Sight in Children

Volunteer with Prevent Blindness Northern California (PBNC), a non-profit organization to help children in your community! A simple vision screening during preschool years can help detect vision problems at a treatable stage. Volunteer with a team of motivated individuals, like yourself, to ensure that children have healthy vision. Catching vision problems is critical during early childhood, when approximately 80% of a child’s learning is visual. Yet, only 22% of preschool children between ages 3 to 5 receive vision screening. Vision screening in the preschool setting is fun for children and highly effective.

Since 1966, Prevent Blindness Northern California (PBNC), a non-profit organization, has trained and certified volunteers to vision screen preschoolers in their own communities. Our Children’s Vision Screening Program offers direct screening, referral and follow-up to over 25,000 preschool children annually. Our screening procedures were developed by PBNC’s Scientific Advisory Committee, consisting of leading ophthalmologists in California. The training program is informative and does not require a background in medicine.

We are currently forming a vision screening team to screen preschools in the Marin County.

As a certified screener you will:

•    Be trained basics of vision problems in children and how to screen for them

•    Screen preschools with 3 – 4 members of your team  

•      Be invited to attend PBNC social events and programs!

•   Create lasting memories and friendships with your teammates  

Through this experience you will gain a sense of pride in the teamwork, as you work with others to deliver high quality vision services to preschool children. This project is especially rewarding because there is gratification in knowing you are changing lives with each screening. You can make the project work with your schedule, ranging from a screening a few mornings a year to as many screenings as you want.  

The project will get started as soon as we have enough volunteers to form a screening team, which generally consist of 5 or more members. So, recruit your friends to join as well! If interested contact us at jlee@eyeinfo.org or check us out online at www.eyeinfo.org or our facebook page.