Sight Savers America

Programs: Our four programs provide the following services at no cost to families: our childrens eye care network provides comprehensive follow up for children identified to be in need of eye care. Our i can see now program focuses on helping children who have a disabling loss of vision. Our visioncheck program provides school-based vision screenings. Our kidcheck plus program provides head-to-toe school-based health screenings, identifying undiagnosed and unmet medical concerns. Our childrens eye care network provides comprehensive follow up for children from birth up to their 19th birthday identified to be in need of eye care. Since our inception, more than 350,000 children in all alabama and mississippi counties and in fulton county, ga have received comprehensive eye exams, eyeglasses, medications, surgeries, other treatments, and individual case management support. During the 2013/14 school year, these services were provided to 32,213 children. Our i can see now program focuses on helping children who have a disabling loss of vision. Our visioncheck program provides school-based vision screenings and has screened over 20,000 children to date. The method used efficiently screens children in a non-invasive manner and captures refraction data in less than one second, ensuring that students miss a minimal amount of classroom instruction time. Approximately 25% of children screened need an eye exam and are referred to the childrens eye care network for follow-up within one day. During the 2013/14 school year, 10,193 children were screened and 1,092 were referred for a comprehensive follow-up. Our kidcheck plus program provides head-to-toe school-based health screenings, identifying undiagnosed and unmet medical concerns for preschool-12th grade students in underserved areas of alabama and coordinating necessary care to improve the overall wellbeing of these children. The screenings include: height & weight with bmi, chest and abdomen examination, skin & musculoskeletal, eyes, ears, nose and throat examinations, dental, vision, hearing glucose, vital signs, scoliosis and cholesterol. Since the programs inception, more than 103,000 have been screened. During the 2013/14school year, 21,644 children were screened.