VOLUNTEER OPTOMETRISTS NEEDED
June 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2018
VOLUNTEER KIDSIGHT SCREENERS NEEDED
May 1, 2, 3, 8, 9.10. 14, 15, 16
This is a big project with screening over 1000 kids and provide exams and glasses to over 100 kids
The Denver Lions Club is teaming with VSP Mobile Eyes and the Boys and Girls Club of metro Denver on a Glasses for Kids project. VSP Mobile Eyes (for more information see https://vspglobal.com/cms/vspglobal-outreach/mobile-clinics.html) will bring one of their mobile clinics to Denver to provide eye exams and dispense glasses to kids who are members of the Boys and Girls Clubs. The VSP mobile clinics program developed from the relief response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. VSP was on the scene to help doctors, whose practices had been destroyed, quickly return to providing eye care, and to offer no-cost replacement eyewear for community members. Today, together with VSP network doctors, three mobile eye care clinics are ready to transform sight wherever it’s needed most. When not responding to communities impacted by disaster, our fully funded mobile eye care clinics travel to community and doctor-led outreach events across the U.S.
The Denver Lions will have screened the kids at all participating Boys and Girls Clubs and those kids who are referred will be tested in the VSP Mobile Clinic.
In those cases where corrective lenses are required the VSP Clinic will provide them. The Clinic will be set up at the Program Support Center located at 2017 West 9th Ave Denver, CO 80204 on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd of this year. The mobile clinic has capacity for 3 exam lanes. Two exam lanes are onboard the mobile clinic with one being a traditional exam room and the second utilizing the EPIC System. Another exam room will be set up inside the Boys and Girls Club facility.
The Denver Lions are recruiting optometrists who are will to donate some time to this project. The Mobile Clinic will be in Denver June 1st, 2nd and 3rd of 2018. The three days are being divided into 6 shifts of approximately 4 hours (half day) and there is a need for three optometrists during each shift (any optometrist may volunteer for more than one shift. If you are willing to volunteer, please call or text 303-653-8780 or email Dwight Steen at Dwight.steen@gmail.com or Fletcher Brown at brownsinco@gmail.com. Let them know the days and shifts that you would like to participate in this project.
