Salus Partners with Women’s Prison to Provide Eyeglasses to Underserved Youth
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Salus Partners with Women’s Prison to Provide Eyeglasses to Underserved Youth
The Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) at Salus University and The Eye Institute (TEI) recently entered into a new partnership with the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Cambridge Springs in Crawford County, Pennsylvania to custom make eyeglasses for children served by the University’s Looking Out for Kids (LOFK) School Vision Program.
The women who are incarcerated at SCI Cambridge Springs will make approximately 200 pairs of glasses this year at the Department of Correction’s Pennsylvania Correctional Industries Optical Lab at SCI Cambridge Springs for TEI’s LOFK program. A dual-purpose program, the glasses will benefit economically disadvantaged children throughout the Norristown, Upper Darby and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, school districts as well as the incarcerated women who are working toward becoming certified opticians through the prison’s reentry program.
