Posts Tagged ‘back to school’
Posted on August 17th, 2011 by Jill N
One of the most important exams in a students’ school year isn’t administered in the classroom, but rather in the optometrist’s office. For millions of children around the U.S., vision problems that go undetected, and a lack of access to eye exams and glasses, make learning a challenge. To provide children in need with quality eyecare, VSP Vision Care is partnering with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to launch the VSP Eye Pledge, an online eye health awareness campaign. For every Pledge received VSP will donate a free eye exam and glasses to up to 50,000 Boys & Girls Club kids in need around the country, valued at more than $19 million!
1 Eye Pledge = 1 VSP Gift Certificate for a Child in need
Go to SeeMuchMore.com and take the Eye Pledge in just three easy steps:
- Select the Eye Pledge that’s right for you
- Direct a free VSP eye exam and glasses gift certificate a Boys & Girls Club of your choice
- Share your pledge to help spread the word and help us reach our goal!
Check out this video featuring BGCA discussing the importance of the campaign and the impact it will have to help children reach their full potential.
For more information about the VSP Eye Pledge campaign and to take the pledge, please visit www.SeeMuchMore.com. The site also includes an interactive, virtual savings calculator to learn about savings with VSP vision benefits, allows users to browse the latest eyewear styles, and provides helpful information about healthy vision.
File under: VSP in the Community | Tagged: back to school, BGCA, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, charitable eyecare, children, eye exams, eyecare, eyeglasses, eyewear, healthcare, kids' glasses, VSP, VSP Vision Care
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Jessica G.
Green Dot New York students, Lori, and Liz.
Liz C. is a mobile response team member and is an Account Manger working within the VSP Field Sales department in our New Jersey regional office. She shares her recent first experience working on board SeeZar at the Green Dot Bronx event in New York.
While I’ve been a part of the Mobile Response Team since it first started about two years ago, I just recently had the opportunity to attend my first event at the Green Dot Public School in NY this week. Having recently moved to the east coast about 8 months ago it was nice to participate in a local event! I was so excited that I couldn’t fall sleep until midnight the night before even though I had to wake up at 5am. I felt a kid waiting to go to Disneyland. After almost a year since I saw SeeZar last, I smiled big as I saw him drive up and we headed off to the GreenDot school located in the Bronx area.
File under: VSP in the Community | Tagged: back to school, charitable eyecare, children, eye exams, eyecare, Green Dot Public Schools, kids' glasses, Not-For-Profit, SeeZar, Sight for Students, VSP Mobile Eyes, VSP Vision Care
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Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Jessica G.
The clinic outside of the Animo Ralph Bunche and Animo Justice campus.
Wednesday was my first day working as a tech on our mobile clinic, and it put me to the test! On our day of a series of events in partnership with Green Dot Public Schools, we visited Animo Ralph Bunche and Animo Justice. These schools share the same campus, so we were able to help students from both schools from one location.
These students were amazing! The results of the Green Dot program are apparent after talking to the kids that we saw. They’d just finished taking their PSAT test, and were articulate, polite, and eager to get their eyes examined. Looking back on myself at that age, I could have taken a cue or two from their manners and poise.
All of the students loved the selection of eyewear on the clinic, and were totally excited about the great brands available to them. Who wouldn’t be glad to wear glasses from Fendi, Coach, or Sean John?
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File under: eye health, VSP in the Community | Tagged: Animo Justice, Animo Ralph Bunche, back to school, California, charitable eyecare, children, eye exams, eyeglasses, Green Dot Public Schools, Los Angeles, Mobile Eyes, Not-For-Profit, SeeLia, VSP Mobile Eyes, VSP Vision Care
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Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Jill N
Jill N. is a member of VSP's Corporate Public Relations team - and a huge fan of NBA star Bobby Jackson.
Yesterday VSP participated in an event that not only gave kids an opportunity to be successful in school by providing them with comprehensive eye exams, eyewear and school supplies, but also gave them another reason to smile – a chance to meet and play basketball with Bobby Jackson from the Sacramento Kings!
We spent the day with 40 Herman Leimbach elementary students, their families and school staff along with parents and students from two other elementary schools who conducted their own school supply fund raising effort for these students through a program called “Kids Helping Kids.”
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and Bobby Jackson arrived to the absolute delight of the kids (and the parents!). They toured SeeLia, our mobile clinic, and helped a few of the students pick out their new frames from the dispensary located on the clinic.
Bobby Jackson and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson pose with VSP Drs. April Omoto and Stephanie Kirschbaum.
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File under: Fun, VSP in the Community | Tagged: back to school, basketball drills, bobby jackson, charitable eyecare, children, diabetes, diabetic retinopathy, eye diseases, eye exams, eyecare, eyeglasses, eyes, eyewear, frame, glaucoma, hemianopia, kids' glasses, macular degeneration, Mayor Kevin Johnson, sacramento kings, VSP Mobile Eyes
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Posted on August 31st, 2009 by Jessica G.
We welcome Dr. David Kisling back to the VSP Blog. Dr. Kisling is a VSP network doctor and guest blogger. Today’s post helps parents take the anxiety out of a child’s pre-school eye examination.
Dr. Kisling is a VSP network optometrist practicing in Ft. Collins, CO.
Is your preschooler or kindergartner ready for their first eye exam? There are critical times to have eye check ups, and this is when you as a parent typically start to have concerns that your child can see his or her best. The onset of the school year brings in many young children to the eye doctor’s office for the first time. Some of them are very anxious because their experience with doctors has normally been associated with sickness and pain.
You can help alleviate your child’s anxiety about going to see the optometrist with six easy steps:
- Explain this is a fun type of doctor’s office without shots. Advise them they will need to answer a few questions as best as they can and there are no right or wrong answers. Assure them if they do need glasses they will get to help pick out colors and shapes they like. If they need vision correction, give them some ownership of the process. If it is determined they need glasses, make positive statements of how much they will enjoy seeing the leaves on the trees and their favorite movies.
- Prepare them for eye drops. You can refer to them as tickle drops that make their eyes tickle for a few seconds. Yes, they do sting briefly, but when I tell children they will probably tickle a few seconds that is what usually happens. Right after drops are put in the eye I start asking children questions to distract them for the first minute or so. If they are thinking about something and answering questions they don’t feel the drops. You can do the same thing by barraging them with questions that have happy answers. Read more »
File under: eye health, Frames & Lenses | Tagged: back to school, children, eye exams, eye health, eyecare, InfantSEE, kids' glasses, private practice eye doctors, Sight for Students
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