Main Menu   Our Other Sites Bookstore Other Resources Statistics Vision Health Resources Vision Loss and Blindness Resources Search All Sites Site Map Prevent Blindness America In 1990, Prevent Blindness America initiated National Glaucoma Awareness Week. It kicked off with a congressional resolution designating that first observance. The following year, Prevent Blindness added Sight Saving Sabbath, with special programs to reach those at high risk in their places of worship. Since then, additional groups have joined the campaign, which expanded in 1998 to include the entire month of January. Prevent Blindness affiliates and divisions throughout the nation observe Glaucoma Awareness Month with high-quality vision-screening events. Conducted by carefully trained and certified volunteers, these screenings include visual field measurement as an effective way to find people with signs of glaucoma. Information about activities at any of the 40 Prevent Blindness affiliates and divisions can be obtained by calling 1-800-331-2020. Prevent Blindness' web site, http://www.preventblindness.org, features a quiz to assess your glaucoma risk factors, as well as other vision screening tools and eye health and safety information. Prevent Blindness America is the nation's leading volunteer eye health and safety organization, dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight since 1908. 500 East Remington Road Schaumburg, IL 60173-4557 1-800-331-2020 FAX: (847) 843-8458 Web site: http://www.preventblindness.org All brands and product names are trademarked or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright of syndicated content belongs to it’s respective author or news organization. Original content (including "look and feel") Copyright © 2001-2006  •  Vision Loss and Blindness Resources  •  All rights reserved.