CHICAGO—The National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) issued a call for nominations for the second annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award. The award recognizes significant efforts by an individual—parent, advocate, legislator, professional—or a group to improve public health approaches for children’s vision and eye health at the state or national level.

Nominees for the Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award should demonstrate an impact in one or more of the following areas of a public health system supporting children’s vision:

• Key stakeholder engagement or collaboration, including representation from families and diverse racial/ethnic/geographic and socio-economic levels target populations
• Training and education
• Public awareness
• Provision of resources and/or services
• Surveillance and accountability
• Reduction of health disparities
• Infrastructure development—local, state or national level

The award ceremony will be held on Aug. 6, 2016 in Alexandria, Va. For more information or to submit a nomination, click here. The deadline for submission is June 17, 2016.