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The passage of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act in 1938 brought government contracts to companies who employed people who are blind, allowing them to make products within government specifications. During World War II, The Wichita Workshop and Training School for the Adult Blind began supplying pillowcases and brooms to the federal government.
It operates a residential rehabilitation and training facility at its headquarters in Sands Point, New York, which opened in 1976, and a system of ten regional field offices, also supporting families and professional carers. In 2010 the Center served 72 adult training clients and specialized short term training for 26 clients; in addition the ...
George Junior Republic is an all-boys institution in western Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Grove City. It is one of the nation's largest private non-profit residential treatment facilities. [1] George Junior Republic houses, schools, and disciplines 500 high school-aged boys from troubled backgrounds.
Miller has served in the Kansas House, Kansas State Senate, Topeka City Council, Shawnee County Commission, municipal judge, and more. Miller is also a candidate for the 19 th Kansas Senate seat.
A lineage that began in 1874 with the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men is today the largest non-profit organization in southeastern Pennsylvania serving the blind and visually impaired. ASB has primarily been a human services agency, but up until 2020, it had also operated as a braille production facility for decades, printing books ...
(Jan. 19, 1A, “Free bus rides in Kansas City need more dollars to continue”) - Daniel Garcia, President, National Federation of the Blind of Kansas City, Kansas City. She taught love. We lost ...
Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired; New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired; New York Institute for Special Education; New York State School for the Blind; North Dakota Vision Services/School for the Blind
The Western Branch of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers was established in 1885 in Leavenworth, Kansas to house aging veterans of the American Civil War. The 214-acre (87 ha) campus (formerly 640 acres (260 ha)) is near Fort Leavenworth, and is directly adjacent to Leavenworth National Cemetery, south of Leavenworth town. The home ...