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Daytona Beach, FL - The merger between two non-profit agencies offering services for the blind happened in January, and CEO Ronee David of the now-named Conklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired, said she looks forward to welcoming more than 50 em.
Conklin Davis Center for Visually Impaired s merged mission
Ronee David, president and CEO of the merged Conklin Davis Center, said the residential program will remain as it was, to teach people with blindness and at least one other disability skills to work and live independently.
“We’ve been getting calls from all over Florida from parents and former clients who want to come back,” David said. “There definitely is a great need.”
The Conklin Center’s residential program was closed in March 2020 after the state canceled its contract supplying about 60% of the organization’s funding, citing violations that “present potential to endanger the health, safety and welfare of the clients,” including operating for several months without specific required, certified staff members. The center continued providing some at-home services to clients.
Program for people with blindness, multiple disabilities in Daytona Beach plans reopening Mark Harper, The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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A recently merged nonprofit is on track to reopen the residential program previously offered by the Conklin Center for the Blind in Daytona Beach.
Officials at the Conklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired say they are working with the state Division of Blind Services to restore funding and reopen the 8-acre campus at 405 White Street by July 1.
The Conklin Center, which had lost state funding in March 2020 because of what the state deemed violations of its contract, went on to merge last fall with the Center for the Visually Impaired, a separate Daytona Beach nonprofit with a slightly different mission.