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CFISD Continues Growing Collaboration<br />
With City Of Houston For See To<br />
Succeed Initiative<br />
Following a very successful first year, CFISD bussed even more students<br />
- approximately 1,600 - to the Berry Center from January 8 th -11 th for free<br />
comprehensive eye exams and eyewear provided by the Harris County Health<br />
Department’s See to Succeed program. The See to Succeed program partners<br />
with several organizations and community volunteers throughout the area to<br />
organize weeklong vision clinics for students between the ages of 6 to 18 who<br />
have not passed state-mandated vision screenings initiated by school nurses.<br />
Transporting CFISD students to the clinics presented logistical and<br />
scheduling issues, but See to Succeed acquired mobile vision exam<br />
equipment. That allowed team members, volunteers and vision<br />
professionals to travel and establish more remote locations.<br />
And in the case of CFISD, that meant setting up the program at the Berry<br />
Center. Approximately 400 students per day were examined and fitted<br />
for glasses over the four days at no cost to participating families. Due to<br />
the increase, a separate See to Succeed program will be set up at Fiest<br />
Elementary School to serve the high demand on that campus. The total<br />
increased from the roughly 1,100 students that participated a year ago.<br />
Consent forms to participate in the program were sent home via school<br />
nurses for those students who failed the vision screenings on campus<br />
multiple times or were deemed as needing an examination.<br />
According to Bevin Gordon, CFISD’s director for health services,<br />
approximately 5,500 students within the district will fail the statemandated<br />
vision screening each year. And from those, roughly half<br />
would not get a professional eye examination to address the issues.<br />
Each day of the four began with eligible students shuttled by CFISD buses<br />
to and from their campuses to the Berry Center. Upon arrival, See to<br />
Succeed employees and volunteers greeted the students and led them to<br />
the auditorium for registration as well as distributing stickers for each to<br />
help identify students throughout the day. The process was broken down<br />
into stations, including pre-screening rooms and waiting areas, before<br />
each student would ultimately visit with an eye doctor.<br />
Stations included distance acuity, color, stereo, near point of accommodation<br />
and conversion, slit lamp, auto refraction and refraction, optical frame<br />
selection, check out and data entry. If a student needed an immediate<br />
referral or follow-up consultation, program workers were ready to call<br />
parents and guardians. Three urgent cases were caught in the first two days.<br />
The entire screening process lasted between 2-4 hours per student. During<br />
their time at the Berry Center, students were accompanied by CFISD clinic<br />
assistants, who joined them as chaperones. Breakfast and lunch were<br />
provided to students by the CFISD nutrition services department to ensure<br />
meals were not missed as a result of a student being at the Berry Center.<br />
The partnership with CFISD and its personnel made the four-day operation<br />
a smooth success, said See to Succeed Manager Patricia Watson.<br />
More than 200 employees from Watson’s team joined many volunteers to make<br />
the program run as smooth as it does. Participating students will have eyeglasses<br />
delivered to their home campuses in roughly four weeks, a part of the process<br />
almost more rewarding as helping each student through his or her exam.<br />
The See to Succeed program has been in operation from its primary Heights<br />
location by the City of Houston Health Department since 2007. Since its<br />
start, the program has screened more than 22,000 children and distributed<br />
over 19,000 glasses to those in need. See to Succeed program partners<br />
include the Houston Department of Health and Human Services, University<br />
of Houston, San Jacinto College, Berkeley Eye Center, public and private<br />
schools, as well as community volunteers from across the Houston area. For<br />
more information, visit See to Succeed at www.HoustonService.org.<br />
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