The Client Assistance Program (CAP) is a neutral agency available to help you with any questions or concerns regarding your services with NCBVI. CAP will work with you to resolve your disagreement with your counselor by providing free advocacy and mediation. You can learn more about CAP at https://cap.nebraska.gov/. or call (800) 742-7594 or (402) 471-3656.
You may request services for another person by calling NCBVI at 402-471-2891 or toll free at 1-877-809-2419. The information is given to a counselor who will call to make arrangements to meet with the person who was referred. The counselor will generally call within two weeks.
Bienvenue à la Commission du Nebraska pour les aveugles et la basse vision (NCBVI), qui est à son tour l’agence de réadaptation professionnelle de l’État pour les aveugles et la basse vision. Nous donnons aux gens les moyens d’avoir une perte de vision en mettant des outils, de la formation, du mentorat et des ressources à portée de main pendant leur séjour au secondaire et au collège, en trouvant et en maintenant leur emploi et en participant activement à leur collectivité.
Réadaptation professionnelle
Bienvenidos a la Comisión para ciegos y personas con baja visión de Nebraska (NCBVI, por sus siglas en ingles), que es a su vez la agencia estatal de rehabilitación profesional para ciegos y personas de baja visión. Empoderamos a las personas con pérdida de visión poniendo a su alcance herramientas, capacitación, tutoría y recursos que sean exitosos en su tiempo de escuela secundaria y universidad, encontrar y mantener empleo, y participar activamente en sus comunidades.
NCBVI will be closed for the Veteran's Day Holiday.
NCBVI will be closed for the Columbus Day Holiday.
The Board of Commissioners to the Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired will meet Saturday, November 7, 2020, beginning at 9:00 A.M. The Focus Topic will be Surviving COVID-19 – What NCBVI has learned and what they will carry forward.
All NCBVI offices will be closed on September 7 to celebrate Labor Day.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Notice of Blind Licensee’s Committee Meeting
Due to unforeseen circumstances, The Nebraska Business Enterprise (NBE) Program’s Blind Licensee Committee meeting originally scheduled for September 11, 2020 will be postponed until Friday, September 18, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. in the first floor conference room of The Nebraska Commission for The Blind & Visually Impaired 4600 Valley Road, Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired (NCBVI) is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of our inception, along with the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act and the 100th Anniversary of Vocational Rehabilitation in the United States!
Tours of the Nebraska Center for the Blind will be held from 1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to come for a tour.
The Program will begin at 2:00 p.m.
NCBVI Staff Are Located Throughout Nebraska To Provide Services In All 93 Counties.
