Operation School Bell® Programs

Eugene – Weekend Food Pantry

The Weekend Food Pantry Program provides weekend food assistance during the school year to eligible low-income students and their families. The program debuted in Fall 2014 at River Road Elementary in the Eugene 4J School District, where 87% of the students are enrolled in the free lunch/reduced lunch program. By supplementing the food supply at […]

Whittier – Single Mom Thankful for Operation School Bell

When single mom Monica Aguayo received a survey from her children’s school that asked if her family needed financial assistance this year, she quickly checked off the box next to “clothing” and promptly put it out of her mind.  That’s why Aguayo was so surprised to receive a follow up phone call telling her she […]

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.”