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Wayfinder Family Services (WFS), Founded in 1953 [1] as the Foundation for the Junior Blind and previously known as Junior Blind, [2] is a United States–based nonprofit organization for services for the blind. The organization's mission is to help children and adults who are blind, visually impaired, or multi-disabled achieve independence.
California School for the Blind was given authorization by the state legislature in 1943 to admit the deaf-blind, becoming the third school in the country to establish a deaf-blind program. The first deaf-blind student to graduate from CSB was graduated in 1949. [2] The school's enrollment peaked in 1965 at 167 students.
California: PIP-12: Cubs: Clerc Classic Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind: 1874: Colorado Springs: Colorado: PreK-12: Bulldogs: Independent Delaware School for the Deaf: 1929: Newark: Delaware: K-12: Blue Hawks: ESDAA 1 Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf: 1964: Wilson: North Carolina: PreK-12: Fighting Hornets: MDSDAA Florida ...
Camp Bloomfield was a 45-acre (180,000 m 2) campground in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California, United States.In 1958, Henry Bloomfield purchased the land, donating its use to the Foundation for the Junior Blind (now known as Wayfinder Family Services) to create a camp for children and youth who are blind, visually impaired or multi-disabled.
Like most blind children, Grayson has some residual vision — that is, some perception of light, shade, shape, color and movement. Grayson Roberts navigates his new surroundings with his mom ...
The California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal or MediCal) is the California implementation of the federal Medicaid program serving low-income individuals, including families, seniors, persons with disabilities, children in foster care, pregnant women, and childless adults with incomes below 138% of federal poverty level.
Federal and State funds for adoptions, the largest SNAP program in the country (known as CalFresh, formerly led by current Department of Aging Director Kim McCoy Wade), CalWORKs program, foster care, aid for people with disabilities, family crisis counseling, subsistence payments to poor families with children, child welfare services and many ...
The center became part of the School of Education. In 1991 a Regional Outreach Program was established by the NCOD to serve colleges and universities in Arizona, California, Texas, New Mexico, and Nevada; several more states were later added. In 1992 NCOD hosted an exhibition of artwork by deaf children in China.