Dynamic Vocational Programming
Lions World Services for the Blind is a rehabilitation center for adults who are blind or visually impaired, located in Little Rock, Arkansas.
When the residential training center was founded in 1947, the only vocational training program offered was the operation of a food vending business.
Since then, LWSB has expanded its vocational offerings considerably. Lions World Services for the Blind has played a major role nationwide in the development of new vocational programs that utilize assistive technology and enhancements in adaptive equipment to bring more job opportunities to people who are blind or visually impaired.
The center has a dynamic method of operation centered on meeting the needs of individual trainees. Today, LWSB offers 13 vocational training programs, and the center continues to explore new avenues of employment for people who are blind and visually impaired.
LWSB is accredited by the National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving the Blind and Visually Impaired, and it is the first rehabilitation center to be reaccredited for the eighth time.
The bottom line of vocational training, however, is not acclaim, but successful job placement of LWSB graduates. In all of its vocational courses, LWSB can be proud of an above-average placement record for a facility that offers post-secondary career training.
In fact, three of its training courses — Contact Collection Representative, Service Center Collection Representative, and Taxpayer Service Representative — have placement statistics of almost 100 percent. These courses train students for careers with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
The vocational training areas are affiliated with the Projects With Industry program of the Rehabilitation Services Administration.
