2025 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award Nominations are Now Open
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2025 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award Nominations are Now Open
The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness announces that nominations are now open for the 2025 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award. Nominations for individuals and groups will be accepted and are due August 25, 2025. Nomination materials are found here.
Nominations are encouraged , and are due by August 25th, 2025.
The Award recognizes significant efforts by an individual or group of individuals to improve public health approaches to children’s vision and eye health at the local, state, or national level that are replicable and create sustainable change.
Nominees for the Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award will be implementing changes to improve children’s vision in the United States by seeking new and innovative solutions to barriers to healthy vision in children. Projects that demonstrate replicability and sustainability will be prioritized. Nominations should demonstrate an impact in one or more areas of a population health system supporting children’s vision:
- Key stakeholder engagement or collaboration, including representation from families and from diverse racial, ethnic, geographic, and socio-economic backgrounds
- Training and education
- Public awareness
- Provision of resources and/or services
- Surveillance and accountability
- Reduction of health inequities
- Vision and eye health infrastructure development at the local, state, or national level
- Connecting vision to overall health, early childhood development, and learning
The Award will be presented virtually during a special event on Wednesday, October 29, at 7:00 pm ET.
Additional Information
The award was established by the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness to commemorate Bonnie Strickland and her groundbreaking work to establish a comprehensive system for children’s vision in the United States. Strickland served as Director of the Division of Services for Children with Special Health Needs, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, before her retirement in 2014.
