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5 people are interested
Summer Preschool Vision Screening - No Experience Necessary!
ORGANIZATION: Friends for Sight
Please visit the new page to apply.
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5 people are interested
Friends for Sight has the amazing opportunity of working with Upstart (an online preschool program the Waterford Institute) to perform vision screenings on their students at their preschool graduation! This means that from June 11-July 13, we will screen over 3,000 children!
As you can imagine, this is a huge endeavor, and something that will take a lot of help.
Screenings will be held every Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, and Satbetween the dates of June 11th and July 13th (except July 3rd and 4th). All screenings will be in Taylorsville.
Shift options on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays:
11:45am - 1:30 pm
1:15 pm - 3:30 pm
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm
4:45 pm - 6:30 pm
6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Shift options on Fridays and Saturdays:
8:45 am - 10:30 am
10:15 am - 12:00 pm
11:45 am - 2:00 pm
1:45 pm - 3:30 pm
3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
We will only need 2-3 volunteers per shift, so shifts will be scheduled on a first come first served basis! There is no limit on how many shifts you can sign up for, and no experience is necessary (though a love for kids is helpful). :)
Volunteers must sign up in advance to help - no walk-in volunteers allowed. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old.
Please contact Haley Smedley at program@friendsforsight.org or 801-524-2020 for more information on how to get trained and signed up for this opportunity. (Emails preferred as I'm often away from my phone).
More opportunities with Friends for Sight
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Friends for Sight
Location:
661 South 200 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84111, US
Mission Statement
Friends for Sight works passionately each day to save sight and change lives. We do this by providing free vision screenings, working to ensure that people of all ages and backgrounds have access to quality eye care, and disseminating information about eye safety, threats to vision, and available community resources. When you check the box on your drivers license or license plate tag applications, you can make a $2 donation to FFS.
Description
Established in 1955 to provide vision screening for children for Amblyopia, lazy-eye blindness, as Friends For Sight we have a single mission: to preserve sight. Since 1955, over 580,000 children - that's over one million eyes - have been screened. In addition over 420,000 adults have been screened for Glaucoma, called the sneak thief of sight. Since we established the high school driver training vision screening program in March 2001, approximately 188,000 students have been screened in schools throughout the state.
Volunteers are the backbone of the agency, accounting for almost 70% of the service hours provided. Each volunteer is trained in the screening processes of screening with charts, glaucoma and visual acuity machines. Our eyes impact our quality of life from birth to death, and like all our vital signs, our eyes work 24/7. Please join us in the awesome task of saving sight. Helen Keller said, "Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
6715 S 1300 Esuite 250Salt Lake City, UT 84121
DATE POSTED
June 17, 2019
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Shifts are approximately 2 hours at a time