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Crown Vision Center, St. Louis, MO, wants to renew its commitment to the community by  providing children in the St. Louis Public School system with FREE vision screenings, FREE eye exams, and FREE eyeglasses through the HVN(Healthy Vision Network) 4 Kids program. To make this possible, Crown Vision Center has been working with the St. Louis Public School District to organize and schedule visits to 50 St. Louis Public Schools.

Crown Vision Center teamed with The Essilor Vision Foundation, whose mission is to eliminate poor vision and its lifelong consequences starting with children.  The Essilor Vision Foundation will be providing Crown Vision Center with the frames and lens to make prescription eyeglasses for all children who fail their eye exam.  Crown employees will be volunteering their time to perform eye screenings, eye exams and distributing glasses to grades K-6 in the St. Louis Public School system.

To make the 2012 exam process as simple as possible, Crown contacted the College of Optometry at The University of Missouri - St. Louis and made an agreement to work in conjunction with the Optometry students and get use of the mobile clinic. The mobile clinic is a 28-foot Van converted into a portable eye clinic with two fully equipped exam lanes.  The Mobile Clinic will make it possible to examine twice as many kids in one day. 

We are looking forward to making this an ongoing program, as well as, expand our services outside of St. Louis Public Schools.