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When you support a Prevent Blindness Texas event you are supporting the work we do which benefits the community by providing critical eye health information and by working with our partners to provide a continuum of quality vision care to medically under-served Texans, giving them a better quality of life.

Dark Dining Houston

Date: March 21, 2024
Location: Vic & Anthony’s Steakhouse: 1510 Texas Ave, Houston, TX 77002

Dark Dining Houston highlights and celebrates an agent of change who is a leader and visionary in the vision space, including patients, doctors, or executives who have made a lasting impact in the field. The honoree has the opportunity to address the audience, share their experiences, knowledge, and journey. The goal is to honor those who have made significant contributions to the field of vision and eye health. The target audience is approximately 150 participants of professionals in the industry as well as others of likeminded interests who support vision health in some capacity. Click here to learn more and register.

Solar Eclipse + Your Eyes presented by The Alcon Foundation

Total Solar Eclipse – April 8, 2024

Visit our Solar Eclipse Page for eclipse eye safety tips, toolkits, and more information. PBT wants to ensure you experience these events as safely as possible. Show your support for vision health by partnering with PBT to share eye education materials, toolkits, and even purchase solar eclipse glasses for your business or child’s school. Opportunities exist for companies to be a retailer of the Prevent Blindness eclipse glasses or be a partner of the eclipse campaign. To purchase solar eclipse glasses, click here

Tee off to Prevent Blindness

Date: May 3, 2024
Location: Sky Creek Ranch Golf Club 600 Promontory Dr, Keller, TX 76248

Tee Off to Prevent Blindness is an engagement golf tournament for healthcare providers, optometrists, ophthalmologists, industry vendors, and professionals who support increased vision resources and eye health. The target number of in-person participants is 144. Click here to learn more and register.

Houston Eye Stroll for Vision

The Houston Eye Stroll for Vision engages families and contributors in the vision community to educate and bring awareness to the importance of eye health. We focus on who PBT is, what we do, and how we do it in communities across the state. The audience is the public at large, professionals in the vision space, and those who encourage vision health at any level.

Stay tuned for details for the 14th Annual Eye Stroll for Vision!

Women’s Health & Vision Symposium
Where there is care, there is hope.

The Women’s Health & Vision Symposium presented by Heads Up Technologies was filled with empowerment and encouragement! This year’s theme, vision caregiving, focused on the invaluable support provided by caregivers to those with low vision or vision loss. With an aging population and a growing number of individuals facing low vision challenges, understanding the physical and mental health burden on caregivers is essential as it touches us all at some point in our lives. Keynote speaker, Dr. Melanie Truong-Le, beautifully articulated the journey of caregiving, and the panelists all gave insight to their personal stories relating to the topic.

Thank you to all our panelists! Dr. Melanie Truong-Le, Dr. Lauren J. Bailey, Dorothy Jones, and Dr. Layla Lohmann.

Thank you to our sponsors! Champion Sponsor: Heads Up Technologies; Guardian Sponsor: FORVIS.

Sequins & Sneakers Spectacle
An inspiring evening in San Antonio!

What a night of edutainment! It was an evening full of sequins, sneakers and edutainment at the Sequins & Sneakers Spectacle presented by the Gordon Hartman Family Foundation as we honored Kelly Haight. With Blue Skies at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens, sequins sparkling everywhere, and the euphonious voice of entertainer Patsy Torres, guests were inspired by the work and impact of Kelly Haight who has touched so many lives and worked endlessly to improve vision care. He encouraged guests to push the limits of technology in the vision space and emphasized with your support Prevent Blindness Texas can continue to grow, and “we can turn the table of education, we can get more and more people to see better and to have a better life!” Thank you to all who joined us at the event, it was a pleasure to sing, dance, and learn with the San Antonio community!

Thank you to our incredible sponsors! Crown Jewel Sponsor: Gordon Hartman Family Foundation; Sparkler Sponsor: Medina Eye Care and Eye Associates of South Texas; Twinkle Sponsor: Integrated Eye Care Collaborative, Inc.; Tinsel Sponsors: Wahlman Geological Services and University of Houston College of Optometry