ARCHS' Lifelong Learning:

Kids Vision for Life

ARCHS' Funding Partner: Essilor Vision Foundation, Inc.

Goal: To provide free eye screenings to children in grades K-6 at Saint Louis Public Schools and other St. Louis area public schools, to provide free eye examinations to students who fail the screening, and provide free eye glasses to students who need them after completing the eye examination.

ARCHS' Service Delivery Partners: Crown Vision Center and University of Missouri-St. Louis School of Optometry (Mobile Van).

Results: TBA (Summer 2012)

Availability: Not open to the general public. Interested school districts should contact ARCHS about program expansion.

History: From 2006-2009, ARCHS' Healthy Vision Network (HVN) was a partnership with the Missouri Foundation for Health, Crown Vision Centers, University of Missouri-St. Louis’ School of Optometry, Regional Lions Clubs, and area healthcare providers. In 2008, ARCHS’ HVN completed a four-year educational effort that successfully provided free eye screenings and exams to 2,260 area adults. Several cataract and other eye surgeries were also performed.

In 2008, ARCHS was awarded a grant from the William Kemper Foundation to help create HVN for Kids (now called Kids Vision for Life). ARCHS partnered with Crown to serve the vision needs of 175 kindergarten and first graders in six Saint Louis Public Schools. Crown continued the HVN for Kids program through 2010 serving hundreds of additional students.

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