OIB-TAC Weekly Brief: March 21, 2024

OIB-TAC Weekly Brief: March 21, 2024

Weekly brief OIB-TAC.

OIB-TAC April Webinar: Making Documents More Accessible

Join OIB-TAC on April 19, 2024, for our next webinar on making documents more accessible. Whether you’re preparing information for staff, community partners, or the individuals you serve, you don’t need to be an accessibility expert to make your documents more accessible to readers of all abilities. Join Steve Kelley as we explore some of the simple ways to make documents more user-friendly and where to find additional guides and resources for taking the next steps.

Zoom Registration Link for April Webinar

 

Seeking Information on Promising Practices

Are you or your agency using a procedure, strategy, or program that is working well and benefiting your program, staff, or clients? The OIB-TAC is collecting promising practices to share and needs your help to identify these promising practices. Visit the website to learn more about submitting a promising practice.

Accessible Pharmacy Services presents the Blindness and Mental Health Summit

Join us for the first annual Blindness and Mental Health Summit on Friday, June 14, 2024 from 12:00PM to 4:00PM ET! The Summit is the largest online gathering of organizations and consumers sharing information, resources, and services focusing on mental health in the blindness, low vision, and disability communities. It is 100% virtual and will have ASL interpreters. Providers will also be able to earn CE credit.

The Summit is a 2-part event:

  • Part 1 - Speaker Series

  • Part 2 - Exhibit Hall

Register for free to learn from our growing list of thought leaders in the blindness and mental health communities:

  • Be My Eyes

  • Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER)

  • Thriving Blind Academy

  • Helen Keller Services

  • Prevent Blindness

  • American Council of the Blind Mental Health and Wellness Committee

  • Intuitive Counseling and Wellness

  • Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired

  • Eye2Eye Peer Support Program for Vision Loss

988 Crisis Prevention Hotline

Click the link below to register:

Blindness And Mental Health Summit 2024 - Attendee Registration

 

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