BSS MostUpToDateNews!
- Browse our New & Improved website!
BSS Upcoming Events!
- Peer Support Group-Spanish Group every second Friday of the month. Come play Loteria, socialize and have fun!
- Peer Support Group- English Group every third Friday of the month. What topic do you have in mind for discussion?
- Click here to check out the 2011 Children’s Xmas Benefit
- SAVE THE DATE: 03/20/2014 Dining In The Dark
OUR HISTORY!
BSS was incorporated in May 1992, to provide innovative approaches to achieving independence and self-reliance for blind and visually impaired residents of Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, San Diego and Los Angeles Counties in Southern California.
Since incorporation, BSS has provided services to many blind and visually impaired consumers, their families and friends from local and surrounding communities. The agency has successfully administered grants from Weingart and PacifiCare Foundations, Rohr Industries, the California Council of the Blind, Bank of America, Allstate, and the Community Foundation of Riverside County. It has also successfully administered local city and county government contracts from 1992 to the present.
In 1999, BSS received a three-year grant from The California Endowment to address the barriers to adequate healthcare that people with visual impairments encounter on a regular basis. We are now partnering with Molina Healthcare, Western University Of Health Sciences, Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions, as well as, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP), a public entity.
In 1996, BSS formed a unique partnership between the community and private sector in providing a 120 unit apartment complex in the City of Riverside. This action created affordable housing for consumers with low to moderate income.
Today, Blindness Support Services continues to expand its support and opportunities to the community by listening to the people and organizations that it is involved with. This combined with providing individual attention to each person and their unique situation, has brought us to where we are today.
Most importantly, it has allowed us to help so many individuals down their own road to Independence.