Jewish Guild for the Blind
Corporate Office:
15 West 65th Street
New York, NY 10023
800-284-4422 (Toll free)
212-769-6200
212-769-6266 (Fax)
www.jgb.org
E-mail: info@jgb.org
Office and state contacts: www.jgb.org/contact_branch.asp (Albany, Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Melville, Niagara Falls, Palm Beach, White Plains)
Staff contacts: www.jgb.org/contact_staff.asp
The Jewish Guild for the Blind is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian agency that serves persons of all ages who are visually impaired, blind and multi-disabled. The Guild offers a broad range of programs that include medical, vision, low vision, psychiatric and rehabilitative services, managed long-term care, day health programs, schools, and educational training programs for independent living.
Programs and services include:
- A broad range of Clinical Services that address medical, vision, low vision, and rehabilitation needs
- Behavioral Health programs, including a psychiatric clinic, a mental health day treatment program, and a developmental disabilities day treatment program
- An Adult Day Health Care program, offered in five locations in New York State and Boston
- A Managed Long Term Care program, offering comprehensive health and vision care services to adults living in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties, who wish to continue living in their own homes
- Vocational Rehabilitation programs, including The Center for Workplace Technology for computer literacy
- Independent Living Skills Training for people who want to remain independent in their own homes
- An Employment Development Program for persons seeking active employment.
- Children's vision and health initiatives, Early Intervention, Preschool and School programs.
- Greater Boston Guild for the Blind (GBGB) is a subsidiary of The Guild that offers programs and services to people with vision loss throughout the Greater Boston area.
- Greater Boston Diabetes Society is a GBGB subsidiary that provides services dedicated to promoting the well-being of people with diabetes.
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