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NBPCB Center Approval
Overview
The National Blindness Professional Certification Board (NBPCB) will provide approval to orientation centers for the purpose of providing immersion and training related to certification and continuing education. The primary focus of approval is that the orientation center be consumer driven, (i.e., is consumer-based in its model of rehabilitation). To be consumer-driven, a center must not only collaborate with consumer organizations of the blind, but maintain concerted efforts towards establishing Structured Discovery methods and an empowering philosophy about training. The NBPCB has an approval plan which is designed to determine whether an orientation center meets standards which make it a consumer-based program.
NBPCB Approved Centers
Private Centers
Blindness: Learning In New Dimensions, Incorporated (BLIND, Inc.)
Approved: 06/10/2008 - 06/09/2011
National Federation of the Blind Center
100 East 22nd St.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612-872-0100
Colorado Center for the Blind (CCB)
Approved: 04/25/2008 - 04/24/2011
National Federation of the Blind Center
2233 West Shepperd Avenue
Littleton Co 80120.
Phone: 303-778-1130
Fax: 303-778-1598
Louisiana Center for the Blind (LCB)
Approved: 04/03/2008 - 04/02/2011
National Federation of the Blind
101 South Trenton Street
Ruston LA 71270
Phone: 318 251-2891
Fax: 318 251-0109
State Operated Centers
Ho`opono Services for the Blind Orientation Center
Approved: 10/09/2008 - 10/08/2011
State Agency
1901 Bachelot Street
Honolulu, HI 96817
(808) 586-5275
New Mexico Commission for the Blind, Orientation Center
Approved: 04/01/2009 - 03/31/2011
408 North White Sands Boulevard
Alamogordo, NM 88310
(575) 437-0401
(888) 513-7967
www.cfb.state.nm.us/AdultOrientationCenter.html
Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Orientation Center
Approved: 08/23/2008 - 8/22/2011
State Agency
4600 Valley Road, Suite 100
Lincoln, NE 68510-4844
Toll Free: 877.809.2419
Local: 402.471.2891
Fax: 402.471.3009