FocusFirst conducting hi-tech vision screenings throughout region
BaldwinCountyNow.com – Aug. 23
Since 2004, more than 2,000 students attending 22 Alabama colleges, universities, and high schools have screened over 88,000 children in Alabama for eye diseases and disorders as part of their affiliation with FocusFirst, a signature project of Impact Alabama: A Student Service Initiative. Impact is the state¹s first nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and implementing substantive service-learning projects in coordination with select universities and junior colleges throughout the state…Founder and President Stephen Black, a professor/attorney who has developed a Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility at the University of Alabama, began implementing Impact in the fall of 2004. Impact now has 30 full-time staff members working out of the non-profit’s headquarters in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. “We desperately need young people’s energies, perspectives, and talents to make our communities and institutions work well,” Black stated. “I see the college years as an incredible opportunity to engage students in addressing human and community needs through structured service opportunities, while providing them with a sense of their ability as well as responsibility to affect structural change.”…