The funds raised for the Save Our Sight program provide for the following programs and services:
Prevent Blindness Ohio provides preschool vision screening education, training, certification and equipment to serve the needs of primary health care providers in Ohio. Trainings are offered throughout the year, and consist of a 4 hour interactive classroom component, as well as a 2 hour homework assignment. For a listing of the most current vision screening training schedule, go to the PBO Vision Screening Training Schedule.
Find out more HERE.
PBO Eye Health and Safety Education provides hands-on learning opportunities for children and adults that will enable them to make wise, informed decisions about how to keep their eyes healthy and safe throughout their lifetime. PBO has several educational programs:
• Wise About Eyes exhibit is designed to educate Ohio’s children and their parents and teachers on how to keep their eyes healthy and safe. Six interactive kiosks provide high-tech activities and learning experiences to educate you and your family about how you can keep your eyes healthy and safe for your lifetime. Have you ever wondered what life would be like with a vision disorder or disease? You can try work your way out of a maze with impaired vision, its harder than you think! Have you noticed that your vision has gotten worse as you have gotten older? Come and spin the aging eye wheel to see how normal vision can change. Learn simple things that you can do to prevent eye diseases and eye injury. Try to break the eye safety lenses that are designed to protect your eyes from impact injuries (bet you can’t!). And try to figure out how you really see with your brain, not your eyes!
The Wise About Eyes exhibit will open at the Boonshoft Museum on June 21, 2007 and will be on display through September 23, 2007.
Wise About Eyes is presented by Prevent Blindness Ohio and the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in partnership with Ohio Association of School Nurses, Opticians Association of Ohio, Ohio Optometric Association and Ohio Ophthalmological Society and is funded by the Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Child and Family Health Services, Save Our Sight Program. Find out more HERE.
• Wild About Eyes is a small kiosk-sized interactive exhibit that also teaches children and adults about eye health and safety. Wild About Eyes has four activity stations: An interactive computer site from the website BrainPop.com that leads children through games and a quiz about vision; vision simulation paddles that let the viewer experience what the world looks like with a particular eye disease or disorder; a bowling ball droops on shatterproof, polycarbonate lenses to demonstrate eye safety wear; and a game to match specific activities with the corresponding eye safety wear. In conjunction with the Wild About Eyes exhibit on display at each library, Prevent Blindness Ohio sponsors a special reading hour for area children and their caretakers. This hour-long event includes appearances by local and state legislators and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, as well as many hands-on activities about eye health and safety for the children and their caretakers to engage in. Wild About Eyes will be on display at 11 libraries across Ohio in 2007-08. Find out more HERE.
2007-2008 Display Dates
| Library |
Display Date |
Address |
City |
Wild About Eyes Reading Hour (open to the public) |
| Columbus Metropolitan Library |
July 3-Aug. 1, 2007 |
96 S. Grant Avenue |
Columbus |
July 17-11am - noon |
| Barberton Library |
Aug. 1- Aug. 30, 2007 |
602 W. Park Ave |
Barberton |
August 7 - 1-2pm |
| Way Public Library |
Aug. 2- Aug. 31, 2007 |
101 E. Indiana Ave. |
Perrysburg |
August 8 - 10-11am |
| Bluffton Public Library |
Aug. 31-Sept 27, 2007 |
145 S. Main St. |
Bluffton |
Sept. 25 10-11am |
| Wickliffe Public Library |
Aug. 30-Sept. 28, 2007 |
1713 Lincoln Rd. |
Wickliffe |
Sept. 5 - 1-2pm |
| Mechanicsburg Public Library |
Sept. 27-Oct. 30, 2007 |
60 S. Main St. |
Mechanicsburg |
Sept. 24-10:30-11:30am |
| Twinsburg Library |
Sept. 28-Oct. 31, 2007 |
10050 Ravenna Rd |
Twinsburg |
Oct. 1-10:30-11:30am |
| Coming soon to these libraries in 2007-08: |
| Carroll County District Library |
70 Second St. NE |
Carrollton |
| Coshocton Public Library |
655 Main St. |
Coshocton |
| Fairfield County District Library |
219 N. Broad St. |
Lancaster |
| Mason Public Library |
200 Reading Rd. |
Mason |
• Wise About Eyes Exhibits-To-Go: in cooperation with the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery (in Dayton), PBO brings the Wise About Eyes exhibit directly to kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms in Ohio in an interactive 60 minute program. Find out more HERE.
• Play It Safe With Your Eyes is an eye health and safety curriculum that is appropriate for grades pre-kindergarten through sixth. The goal of Play It Safe With Your Eyes is to provide information and skills to children, their parents and teachers that will enable them to make wise, informed decisions regarding eye health and safety, eye protection and first aid for eye emergencies. Download our Play It Safe With Your Eyes fact sheet.
In cooperation with the American Academy of Pediatrics-Ohio Chapter, PBO provides a one-hour medical education program to pediatric and family practice medical students and residents. The program emphasizes the importance of vision assessment for young children and provides general information about eye health. Find out more HERE.
The Opticians Association of Ohio
Preschool Vision Screening Training
www.oao.org
The Ohio Ophthalmological Society
Protective eyewear for youth sports and school activities
www.ohioeye.org
The Ohio Optometric Association
Eye health and safety curriculum in schools
www.ooa.org.
The Ohio Optometric Association and The Ohio Ophthalmological Society in partnership with Columbus Children's Hospital
Development and implementation of an Amblyope (lazy eye) Registry
www.ohioamblyoperegistry.com.
The Save Our Sight Program is administered by the Ohio Department of Health. For more information about the program, call 1-800-755- GROW or visit www.saveoursight.org.
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Ohio's Aging Eye Public Private Partnerhip:
a statewide collaboration preparing for the growth of aging eye challenges in Ohio
Find out more HERE.
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Vision Problems in Ohio:
prevalence of adult vision impairment and age-related eye disease in Ohio
Find out more HERE.
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