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President's Letter, April 2024
April 24, 2024
At the board and business meeting we discussed options for the future of VAVF. There was some time spent talking about where the focus of the organization should be at this time.
Several suggestions were made that the focus should be on training future transcribers and vision teachers. The consensus was that it would have to remotely and that we would need to work individually with the people interested in being certified. A version of that plan would be for VAVF to devise a training program for paraprofessionals who work with visually impaired students.
Other suggestions included a merger with another braille organization such as the Florida Council for Blind in the hopes that the scholarship program could continue to provide funds for college students from Florida who are visually impaired.
The third suggestion was to downsize to a small organization to continue to provide scholarships.
The final, and least desirable, solution was to legally dissolve VAVF and to decided what to do with our assets.
All this discussion is a result of the lack of interest in working with and for VAVF. Membership is decreasing and interest in serving on the board is nonexistent.
Please let me know your thoughts, and hopefully, ideas to prevent the loss of our wonderful organization.
Lynnette Taylor
President
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