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St. Joseph’s School for the Blind

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St. Joseph’s School for the Blind has been providing specialized services to individuals with visual impairments across New Jersey since its founding in 1891 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace in Jersey City.  Today’s campus includes a state-of-the-art facility which was designed specifically to serve the disabled and reflects the School’s growth as a premiere provider of educational and social services.

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Challenged Children’s Charity Corp (Helen L. Diller Vacation Home):

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Since 1972, The Helen L. Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children, located at 126 27th Street in Avalon, NJ has been providing a seashore escape for visually impaired children, with supervision from experienced and certified counselors and administrators.  Since many of these children come from families with limited financial means, the vacation experience is provided to them at no charge.  The camp operates for eight weeks during the summer months, from mid-June to mid-August, with approximately 20 children (ages 7-15) attending weekly.

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John D. Young Memorial Lions Blind Center, Inc.

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The Lions Blind Center serves the blind and visually impaired community of Atlantic county and North Cape May County. It helps to empower the blind and visually impaired to set goals and to achieve in an environment where sight loss will not impede progress. The new facility in Absecon helps to open the world of high tech to the blind and visually impaired. It offers computer classes, exercise classes, Braille and peer support. The Center also provides information, referral and advocacy.

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Housing and United Services

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This project was adopted at the 2001 State Convention. The organization serves blind and the sight impaired in such areas as comprehensive information and referral service, housing information and consultations, multi-media transcription services (raille, large print, audio cassettes, etc.), transportation consultations, organization planning, counseling people with blindness and adjustment counseling of the newly blind and their families. A newsletter providing information on these programs and services is published periodically.

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AltruVision – A Lions Eye Bank

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Formerly known as the Lions Eye Bank of the Delaware Valley, Lions Clubs members from the states of New Jersey, Delaware and southeast Pennsylvania founded the LEBDV in 1957. What was once a volunteer effort has grown into a professional, nonprofit organization. Since 1957, the eye Bank has provided tissue for more than 40,000 individuals who have received the “Gift of Sight” through corneal transplant. Countless others have been helped through medical research and education make possible with tissue recovered by the eye Bank staff.

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New Jersey Blind Citizens Association, Inc. (Camp Happiness)

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1910 was a time when the blind or visually impaired were held in disdain and often institutionalized just for being blind. It was at the same time; four courageous blind men defied the odds and established The NJ Blind Mens Club. They incorporated in 1917, and their efforts resulted in what has become the oldest nonprofit organization in New Jersey, that for the past 115 years, has been providing free services to the blind, visually impaired their families and caregivers.

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