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InSight for Kids also holds Monthly Family Support Groups that help kids and their families get together to enjoy different opportunities as a group.

Provides instruction with mobility and orientation, as well as adaptive techniques that enable visually impaired and blind persons to independently perform daily living tasks and to travel safely in the home and in the community.

We provide adults and children with age-appropriate information and tools they can use to help prevent blindness through our free eye health and safety education programs.

Supports and promotes the interests of those who are low vision or blind and the prevention of blindness through a wide range of services, including:

• Rehabilitation Services to teach vision impaired persons and their family's techniques and use of adaptive equipment to promote independence
• Kid Sight screenings
• Vision Voucher Program
• Sight Loss Support Groups

In-Home Support services are designed to assist clients with personal business that can also include other tasks such as balancing checkbooks, handling correspondence, filing applications for benefits and other essential tasks.

Services offered:

• Occupational Therapy services
• Case Management and Adjustment to Vision Loss
• Orientation and Mobility training
• Access Technology

Offers assessments by licensed optometrists, prescriptions for optical aids, and the opportunity to try out aids ranging from magnifiers, writing guides, special lighting devices, and closed-circuit TVs. Prevention of blindness programs including free vision screenings for children 12 months to 6 years of age. Transportation: This free door-to-door service provides rides to essential medical appointment or critical service need, such as obtaining a photo ID or grocery shopping. Individuals must live in Allegheny County and meet the program criteria. Appointments requested to be made in advance.

Offers an array of Social/Recreation Events that are adapted for our clients. Each client and one guide may attend free of charge.

Offers a full range of individualized educational and therapeutic services for toddlers, school-aged children, and adults from 33 counties in Western Pennsylvania. WPSBC also provides support and resources to families and the community.

Manufactures, packaging and distributing products to the Federal Government and commercial customers. The AbilityOne Program creates employment opportunities for individuals who are blind or severely disabled. Business services include shredding, CD/DVD duplication and printing, custom logo USB flash drives, Flash drive and file preloading. They are also available as subcontractors for warehousing, distribution and shipping, light assembly, collating, packaging, and shrink wrapping.

Provides adjustment to blindness support and instruction by offering the young adults a variety of learning experiences and social experiences. Life skills learning at camp includes socialization skills, arts and theater enrichment, food preparation, cooking and eating skills, cleaning techniques, personal hygiene and health, access technology, communication skills, conflict resolution, and orientation and mobility.

Delivers library materials including books, large print books, audiobooks and DVDs to the homebound. Information about services for the blind is also available.

Assists individuals who are blind or visually impaired gain the skills necessary to live and work independently in their communities.

Provides services and resources to blind and visually impaired people. Services include non-medical information and referral, the ACB Braille Forum (available in braille, large print, digital cartridge, email, online, and podcast), legislative and governmental monitoring, scholarship assistance, and public education.

Provides services and resources to blind and visually impaired people. Services include non-medical information and referral, the ACB Braille Forum (available in braille, large print, digital cartridge, email, online, and podcast), legislative and governmental monitoring, scholarship assistance, and public education.

Offers information and referral as well as life skills education designed to inform individuals with visual impairments about community resources and services, health care and medical options, banking and home care.

Offers transportation to our vision-impaired clients to medical appointments and essential community resources, and transportation to our low vision and diabetic support groups, which are held quarterly. Provides support services encompassing a variety of activities, from organizing shopping lists and household items to reading mail and assisting clients with paying bills.

Teaches individuals who are blind, vision-impaired, or deaf-blind how to use their other senses, special equipment, and new techniques to live independently. General curricula have been established, but each individual benefits from an individualized program.

Presents education and public awareness programs that promote the importance of good eye health and safety, and share information about potentially blinding eye conditions. Shares important information about signs and symptoms of various eye diseases and conditions,and ways to keep and make the most out of the vision you have.

Offers monthly virtual support groups, on-site vision support services, trainings, and informal group meetings. Loans vision-related assistive technology, conducts eye exams, and supplies eyeglasses for those who cannot afford them through referrals or funding. Also provides employment opportunities for individuals who are legally blind, and public education to prevent blindness and vision impairment.

Provides specialized information and referral services for individuals with visual impairments.

Offers mutual support group.

Provides educational services for the blind and visually impaired. Promotes public awareness for visual impairment. Conducts engagements with the corporate and business community, community and civic organizations, and schools and universities.

Services include:

• Independent Living Services
• Specialized Services
• Vocational rehabilitation including counseling, guidance, pre-vocational training, job placement, and specialized blindness skills training
• Orientation and mobility instruction (white cane usage)
• Rehabilitation Teaching
• Business Enterprise program that trains persons who are blind to work in food service
• Transportation can be purchased by the agency for consumers when needed in conjunction with another service
• Public education programs

Provides transportation/Escort to enable visual impaired individuals to safely reach facilities and essential community resources for such purposes as banking, shopping, receipt of support services, and material assistance. These services include door to door transportation to and from all medical appointments.