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Welcome to NC-APVI! We are a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing information

and resources relating to raising visually impaired children.

We are the parents and extended family of children with vision impairments

as well as professionals who work with visually impaired students.

NC-APVI is an affiliate of NAPVI, the National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments.

NC-APVI is a non-profit, independent organization that includes parents and professionals. NC-APVI enables parents to find information and resources for their children who are blind or visually impaired, including those with additional disabilities. We provide leadership, support, and training to assist parents in helping children reach their full potential.

NC-APVI is dedicated to:

Giving emotional support

Parent education

Initiating outreach programs

Networking

Advocating for the educational needs and welfare of children who are blind or visually impaired

Join NAPVI today and be a part of an organization of, by, and for parents!

Benefits to members include:

You will receive our quarterly publication "Awareness" which is filled with resource information for parents of children with visual impairments.

Access to a national parent-to-parent network on rare eye conditions.

Information on local, regional, and national conferences.

Updated information on legislation that affects the education of our children.

Increase public awareness concerning specific needs of our children.

Foster communication and coordination of services among federal, state, and local agencies and organizations involved with people with visual impairments.

Opportunity to contribute to an endowment fund to secure NAPVI's mission.

Click here for the NAPVI membership form!

"Parents must regard themselves as the long-lasting resource and the only consistent persons who continually have the child's interest at heart throughout their lifetime.

This organization now is a means to help them fulfill that function."

- Lee Robinson, Founding President, NAPVI