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Guiding Principles
- Universal access to the highest standard of pediatric vision care
- Early, accurate detection, treatment critical to prevent amblyopia and obstacles to healthy child development
- Recognize visual impairment as an important factor in a child’s academic and social success
- Education (broadly defined) is required to reduce vision loss resulting from injury
- Registry including vision screening results, diagnoses, treatment, follow-up is a necessary component for a universal and effective vision services delivery system
- Adopt high quality standards and best practices when reporting, tracking and communicating within a child’s network regarding screening, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care
- Surveying, tracking, evaluating, researching and managing diagnoses and resources related to children’s vision are essential to program success
- Planning and implementation of coalition goals must be collaborative, multidisciplinary and aligned with accepted professional standards for vision care
- Policy, advocacy, stakeholder engagement, commitment to process, and collaboration among coalition members are pathways to overall success
- Development of a successful system requires extra attention to transition years throughout childhood into young adult
- Create a process and plan that can be replicated in other states