🚨LAST CHANCE!! 🚨
Don’t miss your opportunity to register for the EPIC summer program! Spend your summer with friends, living in the LightHouse dorms in San Francisco, learning life lessons and independent living, employment preparedness skills, and exploring the Northern California Coast! Students ages 16 - 21 statewide and welcome to apply.
For the full program overview and application links, please visit: /program/transition-services/
(Link in bio!)
In one month, join us for a day of peace and community at our annual World Labyrinth Day celebration at the beautiful Earle Baum Campus in Santa Rosa! 🌀🦯🦽🦮
On Saturday, May 2, spend a day exploring our custom-designed accessible labyrinth and join in mindful discussions and activities with friends and community members. For the full event details, including registration, please visit the web calendar (link in bio!)
Our Little Learners Community had an amazing afternoon at the Spring Celebration last Saturday! Over 30 families joined us for flower planting, egg decorating, playing with bubbles and sensory toys, and our main event, the Beeper Egg Hunt! 🥚🧺👨🦯➡️👩🦼➡️
Special thanks to Marissa Gonzalez, President of We C Hope USA, for her Beeper Egg Hunt event sponsorship donation in honor of @worldeyecancerhope ! We are grateful for her event sponsorship of our Beeper Egg Hunt events since 2023!
Also a special thank you to our friends at @californiaschoolfortheblind for opening up their campus to us!
And finally, a huge shout-out to our Little Learners Specialist and event photographer, @emmalaineberryphotography !
Photo 1: A Little Learner sits on the grass holding a yellow beeping egg
Photo 2: Two Little Learners in wheelchairs hunt for beeping eggs in hanging baskets
Photo 3: LightHouse Board member, Jamie, and her family hunt for beeping eggs together on the grass
Photo 4: A LightHouse Specialist greets their Little Learner and their family in the gym at CSB, other families are gathered around activity tables in the background
Photo 5: The Beeper Bunny poses with a parent holding their infant Little Learner
Photo 6: Families gather around a sensory activity table
Photo 7: A parent and child sit together on a blanket under a tree playing with noise makers
Photo 8: A basket full of colorful, tactile eggs
Photo 9: Parents help Little Learners search for beeping eggs on the grass
Photo 10: Families decorate eggs and play with bubbles at a sensory table
We love working with Naomi Rosenberg, tactile graphics expert at @lighthouse_sf , to think deeply about what true access to books can look like.
Braille and tactile graphics do more than make books readable. They open the door for children to explore, understand, and connect with stories through touch.
As Naomi reminds us, access matters. Not all blind readers use braille, but making it available ensures that those who rely on it can read and learn. And when tactile design is done well, it can enhance the experience for many kinds of readers.
That is why the print version of our all-in-one book, Dopamine, includes both braille and tactile illustrations, so more children can learn about their bodies in ways that work for them.
We are grateful to Naomi and the team at LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired SF for their expertise and partnership in bringing tactile and braille elements into Hormones Under Your Hood.
#AccessibilityForAll #Braille #Tactile #UniversalDesign #InclusiveEducation
We had an amazing Saturday hosting the @brailleinstitute Northern California Regional Braille Challenge! A huge shout out to our participants and their families, friends, and educators who came out to support them!
We love celebrating Braille literacy and the many accomplishments of your BVI youth. Continue to be successful role models in your community. We know these students have a bright future ahead!
And lastly, a heartfelt thank you to @waymo for sponsoring this terrific event! Your donation allows us to provide community building programs and for that we are very grateful!
The @brailleinstitute Nor-Cal Regional Braille Challenge is tomorrow! We wish all our participants good luck and a good night’s sleep as you prepare for tomorrow’s fun and friendly competition.
Thank you again to our community partner and Braille Challenge sponsor, @waymo ! Their generous donation will help make this year;’s event our best one yet!
See you all tomorrow! 🦯 👐 📖
Another incredible Black History Month Celebration for the books! We’d like to thank our keynote speaker, Miss Ever Lee Hairston, and the over 100 guests who came to celebrate community, culture, and empowerment with us! What a fabulous afternoon.
We’d also like to shout-out our program facilitator, Sabrina Bolus, and then entire LightHouse team for putting on this successful event! We look forward hosting many more joyous community programs like this one. 🧡🦯
Photo 1: Anil Lewis, Executive Director of Blindness Initiative with the National Federation of the Blind, Keynote SpeakerEver Lee Hairston, and Sabrina Bolus pose together in front of a window overlooking Market Street and SF City Hall
Photo 2: Ever Lee speaking at the LightHouse podium
Photo 3 and 4: Images of the crowd, some seated at round tables and others in theater style seating facing the podium
Cycle for Sight is BACK! 🚴♀️ 🦯 👁️
On Saturday, April 18, we will be raising money for Enchanted Hills Camp scholarships. The Yountville ride is capped at 49 participants (tandems count as two.) We would love for you to participate as a single, a tandem pilot or a stoker.
Our Goal: Each rider commits to raising at least $1,000 through donations. Together, we aim to raise $50,000—and if we can exceed it, even better! 🧡 Cycle for Sight is BACK! 🚴♀️ 🦯 👁️
On Saturday, April 18, we will be raising money for Enchanted Hills Camp scholarships. The Yountville ride is capped at 49 participants (tandems count as two.) We would love for you to participate as a single, a tandem pilot or a stoker.
Our Goal: Each rider commits to raising at least $1,000 through donations. Together, we aim to raise $50,000—and if we can exceed it, even better! 🧡
🔗 To register, visit the link in our bio. Note: Registration fee is $50.
🙋♂️Need more info? Interested in being a sponsor? Please email Tony Fletcher at [email protected].
(Note: Registration fee is $50.)
In honor of #LowVisionAwarenessMonth we’d like to give a shout-out to an incredible professional in the field and this year’s winner of the Dr. William and Mrs. Ruth Silverman Excellence in Community Partnerships Award, Dr. Emily Gorski of UC Berkeley School of Optometry.
Dr. Gorski is being honored as a member of the medical community whose partnerships have enhanced the knowledge of families and their communities of care and have enriched the lives of children who are blind or visually impaired.
To read more about Dr. Gorski, visit:
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Celebrate Black History Month with LightHouse!
Join our guest speaker, National Federation of the Blind leader, civil rights activist, and author Ever Lee Hairston, as she explores identity, disability, and social change, emphasizing self-advocacy as a pathway to leadership and civic action.
She met and marched with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and is the author of Blind Ambition: One Woman’s Journey to Greatness Despite Her Blindness.
When: Saturday, February 28, 2026, from 2 - 5 PM
Where: 1155 Market Street San Francisco
To RSVP visit the link in our bio!!
Happy Low Vision Awareness Month! Every February, community members, resource agencies, and BVI service providers come together to support, celebrate, and shine a light of acknowledgement on the Low Vision community!
All month long, we will be highlighting our incredible staff, programs, and services dedicated to empowering and supporting people with low vision. 👓 🔎 🦯
Calling all BVI students—warm up those fingertips and start practicing those braille skills; the annual Northern California Braille Challenge is right around the corner! We’re s so excited to be the host of this year’s event on Saturday, March 7! All interested students and their families can register here: https://bit.ly/3NhCsYV
For those interested in volunteering or being a proctor, please contact Jamey Gump at [email protected].
