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Prevent Blindness Declares September as Sports Eye Safety Month to Raise Awareness, Provide Education to Help Avoid Eye Injuries
Prevent Blindness Statement on Proposals to Change the Head Start Program
Prevent Blindness Expresses Concern Over Medicaid Community Engagement and Eligibility Requirements for Visually Impaired
Prevent Blindness Introduces New Resources and Advances National and State Advocacy Efforts to Save Children’s Vision as Part of August’s Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month
Prevent Blindness Honors Bipartisan Leadership of Congressional Vision Caucus Co-Chairs, U.S. Representatives Gus Bilirakis and Marc Veasey, with Congressional Visionary Award
July Declared as Dry Eye Month by Prevent Blindness to Provide Public and Allied Healthcare Professionals with No-cost Educational Resources on Dry Eye
National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness Calls for Nominations for the 2026 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award
Prevent Blindness Issues Warning on the Potential Dangers of Fireworks Ahead of 250th Anniversary Celebration
June is Cataract Month – Prevent Blindness Provides Educational Resources on the Leading Cause of Vision Loss in the United States
Prevent Blindness to Host the 2026 ASPECT Patient Engagement Summit and Eyes on Capitol Hill Legislative Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C.
Prevent Blindness Declares May as Third Annual Inherited Retinal Disease and Genetic Testing Month
Prevent Blindness Kicks Off its 2026 Focus on Eye Health Webinar Series “Powering Partnerships to Advance Eye Health” in May
April is Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month at Prevent Blindness, Aimed at Providing Women with Resources Needed to Help Save Vision
Prevent Blindness Declares First-Ever Keratoconus Week
Prevent Blindness Holds 2026 Person of Vision Award Gala, Honoring Jim McGrann, Advancing Eyecare, as Part of Vision Expo
Prevent Blindness Debuts “Best Eyes for Life” National Multimedia Campaign as Survey Reveals Concerning Misconceptions on Eye Health
Prevent Blindness Offers Free Educational Resources to Employers and Employees for Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Third Annual Prevent Blindness Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Awareness Week Kicks off as Part of its National ROP Education and Support Initiative
February is Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Low Vision Month
Congress Cuts Vision and Eye Health Funding by One-Third in Fiscal Year 2026
Tickets and Sponsorships Available for the 2026 Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala
The “It Started With an Eye Exam” Campaign Rolls Out its Second Year

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Nov

Most Beautiful Eyes Semi-Finalists Announced

Prevent Blindness America Announces Semi-Finalists for “Most Beautiful Eyes Contest” –Winners from Maine, Oklahoma and South Carolina Vie for Grand Prize of $25,000 College Scholarship...

Nov

New Live Right, Save Sight Campaign

More than 25 million Americans have diabetes. In addition to being the leading cause of kidney failure and non-traumatic lower limb amputations, it is the...

Oct

New National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health Website

Prevent Blindness America Launches Website for the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health Chicago (Oct. 28, 2011)– Prevent Blindness America, the nation’s leading...

Oct

PBA Launches “Live Right, Save Sight!” Campaign

Prevent Blindness America Launches “Live Right, Save Sight!” Campaign to Educate Public on Diabetic Eye Disease –New Program Seeks to Promote a Healthy Lifestyle as...

Oct

Preschool Vision Screening- MOC Module Video & Overview

Preschool Vision Screening- Performane Improvement Project Overview and Demo Video A Preschool Vision Screening – Performance Improvement Program (PIP) Module has been developed and is...

Oct

Halloween Safety Tips – Preventing Eye Injuries

Halloween should be a fun time that your child remembers for years to come. Every year, there are several hundred eye injuries related to costumes...

Oct

PBA, Uvex Launch Workplace Eye Safety Program

Prevent Blindness America and Uvex Launch Innovative Eye2Eye Safety Program to Improve Workplace Eye Protection CHICAGOand SMITHFIELD, R.I. (Oct. 18, 2011) – Prevent...

Oct

Oregon Children’s Vision Summit Presentation

The National center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health presented at the Oregon Children’s Vision Summit on September 16th. The presentation from that meeting is...

Sep

Home: the Most Dangerous Place for Eyes

– Study Shows More Eye Injuries Occur at Home than at Work and School Combined – CHICAGO (Sept. 29, 2011) – Home may be where...

Sep

PBA Supports National Falls Prevention Day

Prevent Blindness America Supports National Falls Prevention Awareness Day on September 23 – Falls Are the Leading Cause of both Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries for...

Sep

Oregon Children’s Vision Summit

Leaders in Eye Health to Host First EverOregon Children’s Vision Summit CHICAGO (Sept. 9, 2011)– Because one in four school-age children have some form of...

Sep

Support Vision and Eye Health Across America!

Now is the time for the Eye Care Action Network (Eye CAN) to tell Congress to support vision and eye health programs that preserve sight...