Prevent Blindness America and other Prevent Blindness affiliates in Virginia, Maryland, Texas, Iowa, Illinois and Washington are sending delegates to meet with our nation’s leaders to educate them on the need to support critical vision-related programs and appropriations.
Their goals are to ask Congress to:
- Provide $5 million in FY 2011 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vision Health Initiative.
- Allocate $1.2 million in FY 2011 to support the Maternal and Child Health Bureau’s National Universal Vision Screening for Young Children’s Coordinating Center.
- Appropriate $730 million in FY 2011 to the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant.
- Support increased FY 2011 funding for the National Eye Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Prevent Blindness America has been deeply involved in advocacy work for more than 100 years. Prevent Blindness America and its network of affiliates continue to work with federal and state government representatives to keep vision and eye health a top priority.
All Senators and Representatives are invited to join the Congressional Vision Caucus (CVC). This caucus is a bipartisan, bicameral group of Members of Congress dedicated to strengthening and stimulating a national dialogue on the importance of vision health. The CVC is co-chaired by Representatives Gene Green (D-TX), David Price (D-NC), Patrick Tiberi (R-OH), and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL). A reception for the Congressional Vision Caucus will be held on March 11, sponsored by Pfizer, Inc. and Transitions Optical, Inc.
For more information on Prevent Blindness America and its advocacy initiatives, please call 1-800-331-2020 or visit preventblindness.org.
For more information on Prevent Blindness Georgia, call www.pbga.org or call 404-266-2020.
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