Operation School Bell® Programs

Santa Monica – Celebrates Decade Partnership with Optometric Options

For more than 10 years, Dr. Elliott Moscot and his staff have been providing eye exams and glasses to students in the Santa Monica Bay area as part of Assistance League’s Operation School Bell program.  Lora Morn, head nurse with SMMUSD, has helped coordinate requests for vision vouchers from the schools, and Jacque Kelly, Vision […]

San Bernardino – Tina the Tooth Visits Elementary Schools

Tina the Tooth (also known as Assistance League of San Bernardino member Cathy Bechtel) visits kindergarten classrooms as a part of Assistance League of San Bernardino’s oral hygiene instruction to all 49 elementary schools in the San Bernardino City Unified School District. In 2015, volunteers from Assistance League have given oral instruction to over 2,000 kindergarteners since […]

Placer County – Assistance League Screens Children’s Eyes

Assistance League of Greater Placer partners with Prevent Blindness Northern California to screen eyes for preschool children ages 3, 4 and 5. Twenty-five Assistance League members are certified for the Screen Eyes Early (S.E.E.) program and work with preschools in Lincoln, Rocklin and Auburn. Screening is done late February and early March. Many of the […]

Diablo Valley – Volunteers Screen Preschoolers Eyesight

Since 2005, Prevent Blindness has trained Assistance League of Diablo Valley Foresight program volunteers, who in turn, have screened more than 13,000 preschoolers, resulting in 400 referrals for full vision exams and identifying 32 cases of amblyopia, commonly known as “lazy eye.”

Montgomery County – Passport for Good Health

Some may ask, and with good reason, what does the Passport for Good Health™ committee accomplish? Is it still a vital part of our philanthropic mission? The committee members believe it is, the members of the community who benefit from our efforts think it is and the directors of health clinics where we distribute the passports […]

Redlands – Dental Center

A hygienist is seeing patients three days a week at the Redlands Assistance League’s dental clinic, thanks to a grant from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.  “This has freed up the dentist to see many more patients,” said Beverly Sessums, dental center chairwoman.  The dental facility provides low-cost dental care and oral hygiene […]