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TRANSPORTATION:
Our clients need rides due to the
lack of public transportation in our rural community. The transportation we provide includes:
Trips to and from medical
appointments as far as Sacramento
Assistance with filling out medical
forms
Taking the client to have
prescriptions filed
Rides to and from all our meetings
and events
TRAINING:
Education and skills to remain in
the home, including:
Independent living skills
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille lessons
Computer training for the blind and
visually impaired
COUNSELING:
We provide peer and professional
counseling to help those with newly limited
vision to develop a positive
attitude and to fight the depression, loneliness
and isolation that accompany the
loss of sight.
Twenty-two peer group meeting occur
each month
Staff provided individual
counseling over 1200 times last year
We also provide counseling to the
client's family.
SOCIAL GATHERINGS:
We hold luncheons, picnics and
dinners for our clients to meet new visually impaired friends share daily
problems, and retain a sense of community.
Transportation is provided to all such events.
INFORMATION AND REFERRAL:
Sierra Services for the Blind will
help the client obtain any needed resources, equipment and low-vision
assistance.
ADVOCACY:
Sierra Services for the Blind will
help clients with their blindness related legal or bureaucratic issues with
Social Security, Medicare or insurance companies.
TALKING BOOK APPLICATIONS AND SUPPORT:
We can help you get talking books
and recorders, including the downloading of digital books from the National
Library Service.
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