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February 2022
- Voyagers Full Power with KidPower
- Youth of Tomorrow: A Day in the Life
- Resources and Opportunities
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February 5, 2022
Voyagers FullPower with Kidpower
Voyagers are partnering with Kidpower to teach our youth living with vision loss valuable safety skills! We will learn skills and strategies to build healthy relationships and proactive safety techniques for bullying, harassment, and assault. This kid friendly workshop can be applied to any environment including at school, online, the community, or work. Check out the attached flier for more workshop topics. This will be a virtual event.
Kidpower is the global leader in personal safety education for all ages, teaching skills for strong relationships and the prevention of harm. Kidpower has been providing safety training to Vista Center adults for several years and their workshop is taught in a fun, engaging, and accessible format. Vista Voyagers are very excited to partner with Kidpower for Vista Centers first youth safety workshop!
When: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 at 10:30 - 12:00
Where: Zoom link
Who: Youth living with vision loss ages 12 - 22
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January 26, 2022
Youth of Tomorrow: A Day in the Life of College Student
This month, young adults will meet Stuart Soulek, a 27 year old living in the Los Angeles area. He is currently working on completing his degree in communications. Previously, he finished the certificate program at Long Beach city College for culinary arts. He likes to bake, hang out with friends, ride roller coasters and listen to good music. He will discuss his college experience and provide insight into how uses his passion for culinary arts and communications.
When: Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 1pm - 2pm
Where: Zoom link
Who: Youth living with vision loss ages 14 - 24
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March 5, 2022
Northern California Braille Challenge
Braille Challenge is the only academic competition of its kind, allowing students with vision loss to show off their fabulous braille reading, writing, and editing skills! Braille Challenge motivates students to hone their literacy skills through friendly competition and games, generates a foundation for academic and employment success, and curates friendship and camaraderie within the Northern California community.
Any student grades 1st - 12th who has vision loss and can read and write braille is eligible to participate in the Braille Challenge. Contestants are divided into five categories and tested on fundamental braille skills such as reading comprehension, spelling, speed and accuracy, proofreading, and charts and graphs. There are 5 age groups including Apprentice 1 - 2 grades, Freshman 3 - 4 grades, Sophomore 5 - 6 grades, Junior Varsity 7 -9 grades, and Varsity 10 - 12 grades.
Partnering with California School for the Blind and San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind, the 2022 Northern California Regional Braille Challenge will be a chance to reunite and celebrate your braille accomplishments! Parent and student workshops will include student panels, adult mentors, guest speakers and a chance to come together as a community. You won’t want to miss this fun-filled day with workshops, guest speakers, competition, and awards!
Date: March 5, 2022 from 9am - 4pm
Registration: Due February 7, 2022
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Resource
January - May 2022
LEAP Connect
LEAP Connect is a 10-week program with bi-weekly virtual workshops from January 31- May 2 for youth with visual impairments.
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Vista Center empowers individuals who are blind or visually impaired to embrace life to the fullest through evaluation, counseling, education and training.
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