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VISIONS at Selis Manor community center is located on West 23rd Street in Manhattan in an apartment building for low-income people who are blind and/or otherwise disabled. VISIONS offers a variety of services for tenants as well as blind community users of the facility from throughout the New York metropolitan area:
- Social services including benefits assistance and individual and group counseling to adjust to and cope with vision loss.
- Individual and group vision rehabilitation training including learning Braille and a cane clinic.
- Senior services including Senior Speak Out, a weekly seminar that includes speakers on topics of interest to blind seniors, a hot dinner meal, peer networking, and the opportunity to make use of volunteer readers. Senior Speak Out meets Mondays from 2:00-5:00 PM
- Wide variety of adapted classes and wellness programs including photography, fitness, computers, walking club, yoga, bowling, ceramics, quilting, nutrition and health workshops, etc.
- Volunteer readers and shoppers.
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For active seniors like Carmela Rozinski, working out in VISIONS fitness center maintains her health.
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For more information, contact:
Ann DeShazo, Director of VISIONS at Selis Manor
646-486-4444 x 11
E-mail: adeshazo@visionsvcb.org
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Now, through the wonderful staff and services at VISIONS, I am living my second life... a life that couldn't have happened without them.
