This week, June 10-16, is Vision Rehabilitation Week. Three weeks from now the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Blind Rehabilitation Service (BRS) will commemorate 76 years of residential programs beginning with the original dedication of the Hines Blind Rehabilitation Center (BRC) on July 4, 1948. 

Unfortunately, fewer than 5 percent of Americans who could benefit from vision rehabilitation programs currently take advantage of them. For the more than a million veterans with blindness or low vision, the estimated percentage is close to the same figure.

Vision Rehabilitation Week celebrates all life-changing rehabilitation services for people living with blindness and low vision. BVA joins the blind and low vision community in supporting these services, especially as they relate to the dedicated professionals who continue to serve veterans in the world-class programs of VA BRS that BVA has both pioneered and championed throughout its history.

For more information about the impact of sight loss on veterans and the wide array of VA programs serving them, click here.