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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A caller Valley Center for the Blind (VCB) determination is acceptable to unfastened successful Visalia to enactment radical who are unsighted oregon person debased vision.
The VCB is simply a section nonprofit that aims to support, train, and employment radical who are unsighted oregon person debased vision. Officials accidental the Visalia determination for the halfway volition supply independency and employment grooming for radical who are unsighted oregon person debased imaginativeness crossed Kings and Tulare counties.
Officials accidental it is estimated that determination are implicit 50,000 radical crossed Kings and Tulare counties who are either unsighted oregon person debased vision. In 2023, lone 147 clients from these 2 counties received VCB services. This volition beryllium their archetypal bureau betwixt Bakersfield and Fresno.
The enactment hopes to supply services to its clients specified as:
- Independent surviving skills.
- Assistive technology.
- Orientation and mobility.
- Braille.
- Workforce development.
- Employment services.
- Social programs.
"We are grateful for the accidental to turn a robust and person-centered programme serving individuals who look countless obstacles to independency and employment," said VCB Executive Director Shellena Heber.
The halfway volition person its expansive opening connected Wednesday from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and a ribbon-cutting ceremonial from 4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Community members are invited to the lawsuit to larn much astir what the VCB tin connection to the section unsighted and debased imaginativeness community, arsenic good arsenic section businesses.
To larn much astir their services, sojourn myvcb.org oregon telephone 559-222-4447.
