BVA has a Women Veterans Group that currently meets via Zoom every fourth Thursday of the month at 6:00pm Eastern Time. The meetings attract women veterans from throughout the country. The upcoming general session this Thursday, October 27, is open to all female veterans with sight loss who are interested in the activities, support, and camaraderie offered by the group, which have included recreational activities in various regions of the United States in 2017-19 and […]

The Blinded Veterans Association (BVA) invites you to this week’s monthly virtual meeting of the organization’s Women Veterans Group. The Thursday, October 27, meeting via Zoom beginning at 6:00pm Eastern Time is open to all female blinded veterans. The discussion is not limited to a specific group of women veterans already established nor is attendance at previous meetings a requirement to attend Thursday’s meeting. Please share the following information and link with your fellow veterans […]

Caution, Blind Priest Driving: The Story of Father Thomas J. Carroll, Changing the Public’s Perception of Blindness by Rachel Ethier Rosenbaum has recently become available to BVA members and their families via Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD), a service of the National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and Print Disabled. Father Carroll served as BVA’s first National Chaplain from 1946 until his untimely death in 1971. He was a pioneer in the field […]

BVA Executive Director Donald D. Overton, Jr. contributed to a USA Today article published October 19 entitled “Blind to Problems: VA’s new medical record system is shutting out visually impaired patients.” The article, written by Darius Tahir of Kaiser Health News, details the potential difficulties that more than a million veterans may encounter as they attempt to use VA’s new digital health record system, developed by Oracle Cerner. Two of the more prevalent issues are […]

Special receptions, programs, and walks commemorating White Cane Awareness Day, now known also as Blind Americans Equality Day, have involved several BVA regional groups in different parts of the country. The activities typically occur at VA medical facilities, state and local government agencies, community centers, shopping centers, schools, and other organizations of and for the blind. The official date of October 15, this year falling on a Saturday, moved some of the commemorative events to […]

The Blinded Veterans Association (BVA) invites and encourages you to attend next week’s monthly Zoom meeting of the organization’s Dog Handlers Committee. The Tuesday, October 18, session is open to all veterans with sight loss who are interested in topics and issues associated with guide dogs. Veterans who do not currently have a working guide dog are still welcome to attend. The discussion is also not limited to a particular group of dog handlers already […]