A.C.H.I.E.V.E.

All Children’s Health Initiative for Eye and Vision Excellence in Minorities Communities

The National Optometric Association

National Children’s Center for Vision and Eye Health (NCCVEH) at Prevent Blindness

The National Optometric Association (NOA) and the National Children’s Center for Vision and Eye Health (NCCVEH) at Prevent Blindness are partnering to raise awareness of the importance of vision for children:

How vision impacts child development and learning
The importance of vision screening
The importance of comprehensive eye examinations

The ACHIEVE campaign–All Children’s Health Initiative for Eye and Vision Excellence–is targeted to minority parents to learn more about how to care for children’s vision.

ACHIEVE Evaluation Survey

Changing Life Through Lenses®

NOA is proud to promote to its member doctors EVF’s Changing Life through Lenses® (CLTL) program, which gives eye doctors and charities free lenses, frames and labs services as well as access to other charitable resources. CLTL lets you serve patients in need at no extra cost to you. Sign up today for Changing Life through Lenses to access all these resources for free and help transform your community. Also, for a limited time, you can get up to $1,500 from EVF to support your charitable vision services by registering for the CLTL Relief Fund campaign when signing up for CLTL.

Children’s Vision Resources

18 vision milestones in baby’s first year (English)

18 vision milestones in baby’s first year (Spanish)

A Guide to vision health for your newborn, infant and toddler (English)

A Guide to vision health for your newborn, infant and toddler (Spanish)

Signs of Possible Vision Problems in Children

Signs of Possible Vision Problems in Children (Spanish)

Finding Eye Care For Yourself and Your Child (English)

Finding Eye Care For Yourself and Your Child (Spanish)

Financial Assistance for Eye Care (English)

Financial Assistance for Eye Care (Spanish)Finding Eye Care For Yourself and Your Child (Spanish)

ACHIEVE Infographics

ACHIEVE Spanish Infographics

About National Optometric Association

Founded in 1969, the National Optometric Association has a mission of “advancing the visual health of minority populations”. With membership of over 800, including students at 23 schools and colleges of optometry, the NOA is the nation’s largest professional organization representing minority optometrists. The NOA is dedicated to improving the quality and accessibility of eye care in underserved minority communities.

About Prevent Blindness

With a mission to prevent blindness and preserve sight, Prevent Blindness was founded in 1908. Prevent Blindness is the nation’s leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight. The mission of the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) is to improve the systems that address children’s vision and eye health through uniform implementation of successful screening and eye health programs, increased follow-up to eye care and treatment, improved surveillance, and stakeholder engagement.