About CBVI
Our Mission
“CBVI is dedicated to helping individuals
in the greater Delaware Valley area prevent,
prepare for,
and adapt to vision loss
in order to achieve independence.”
Our Services
Services provided to accomplish this mission:
Our History
In 1941, the Lions Club of Chester organized the Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CBVI) as a two employee workshop for the blind in a small garage at 3rd and Concord Streets in Chester. The Center soon registered as the Delaware County Branch of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind and became incorporated as a non-profit. Over the next seven decades, CBVI grew, expanded and developed as a multi-service agency to meet the ever changing needs of people with blindness and visual impairment in Delaware County and beyond.
The agency is administered by a board of directors, who serve without compensation. CBVI’s clients include blind high school students learning to make the difficult transition to college or their first job, working age adults managing the challenges of family life and succeeding at productive careers, and a growing number of seniors facing the trials of living safely and independently despite age-related vision loss. As a result of CBVI training programs, our clientele resume family responsibilities, re-enter the workforce, return to school, continue to live independently in their own homes, and lead quality, productive lives.
CBVI has successfully served individuals with blindness and visual impairment in the past, continues its mission in the present, and pledges to do so in the future