2025 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award – Call for Nominations

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. You will find the nomination materials here. We encourage you to nominate a colleague.

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 out new and innovative solutions to barriers to healthy vision in children. Projects which 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.