PBA Launches ‘Healthy Eyes Educational Series’ to Promote Vision Health

As part of its ongoing goal to protect vision and save the gift of sight, Prevent Blindness America (PBA) has launched the “Healthy Eyes Educational Series,” a free program designed to build public awareness of eye and vision basics, common adult vision disorders, eye safety precautions and proactive behaviors that ensures a lifetime of healthy vision.

Participants can simply visit the Healthy Eyes Educational Series section of the Prevent Blindness America website and download modules to conduct formal presentations or informal one-on-one sessions that can be customized utilizing topics most appropriate to the audience or clients. The modules each include a Presentation Guide and corresponding Power Point presentation.

Healthy Eyes Educational Series module topics include:
• Adult Eye Disorders
• Contact Lens Safety
• Eye Anatomy
• Healthy Living
• Home Safety
• Low Vision
• Refractive Errors
• Sports Safety
• Workplace Safety

The program is ideal for a variety of groups including community health educators, public health personnel, community and senior center program directors, employers seeking “lunch-and-learn” topics, safety directors, and students. In addition, factsheets on a variety of eye health and safety topics can be downloaded free-of-charge from the Prevent Blindness America website for use as handouts to accompany the presentation.