100 West 15th Street
Chester, PA 19013
tel. 610.874.1476 • fax. 610.874.6454

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Welcome to the Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired on the web! This is your source for information about vision loss, blindness, and the resources we have to help you. The Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CBVI) is a multi-service nonprofit agency founded in 1941. Our mission is to help individuals in the Greater Delaware Valley area prevent, prepare for, and adapt to vision loss in order to achieve independence. Our specially trained staff and dedicated volunteers help individuals who have blindness or vision impairment learn, work, and live independently.

Executive Director: Robert M. Nelson

The Center for Blind and Visually Impaired (CBVI), is a private, not-for-profit agency, located in Chester, Pennsylvania. Founded by the Chester Lions Club in 1941, the Center serves nearly 12,000 people each year. CBVI provides a full range of rehabilitation and training programs, as well as social services, low vision services, and employment services for individuals with blindness or vision impairment. Many clients are residents of Delaware County, but program participants come from throughout Pennsylvania. The agency is administered by a 24 member board of directors.

Agency Mission
CBVI is dedicated to helping individuals in the greater Delaware Vally area to prevent, prepare for, and adapt to vision loss in order to achieve independence. Our goal is to help those with blindness or vision loss to lead well adjusted, indepentent, productive, and rewarding lives.

Program and services conduced by the Center for Blind and Visually Impaired are available to all eligible individuals without regard to race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex or handicap. The Center for Blind and Visually Impaired is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer.