NBPCB Center Approval Process | Orientation Center Evaluation Checklist
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.
View the NBPCB Center Approval Process for more details and to get started with the application process.
NBPCB Approved Centers For Immersion and Training
The following centers are recognized by the National Blindness Professional Certification Board (NBPCB) as approved sites for immersion and training. These sites are approved because they meet standards set by the NBPCB of being consumer-focused, (i.e., are driven by a consumer-based model of rehabilitation).
Private Centers
Blindness: Learning In New Dimensions, Incorporated (BLIND, Inc.)
Approved: 06/10/2008 — 06/09/2014
National Federation of the Blind Center
100 East 22nd St.
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612-872-0100
http://www.blindinc.org
Colorado Center for the Blind (CCB)
Approved: 04/25/2008 — 04/24/2014
National Federation of the Blind Center
2233 West Shepperd Avenue
Littleton Co 80120
Phone: 303-778-1130
Fax: 303-778-1598 E Mail:
http://www.cocenter.org
Louisiana Center for the Blind (LCB)
Approved: 04/03/2008 — 04/02/2014
National Federation of the Blind
101 South Trenton Street
Ruston LA 71270
Phone: 318-251-2891
Fax: 318 251-0109
http://www.lcb-ruston.com
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 — 03/31/2012
Adelmo Vigil, Deputy Director
408 North White Sands Blvd.
Alamogordo, NM 88310
Phone: 575-437-0401
Toll-Free: 888-513-7967
http://www.cfb.state.nm.us/AdultOrientationCenter.html
Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired,
Orientation Center
Approved: 08/23/2008 — 08/22/2014
State Agency
4600 Valley Road, Suite 100
Lincoln, NE 68510-4844
Toll Free: 877.809.2419
Local: 402.471.2891
Fax: 402.471.3009
http://www.ncbvi.ne.gov