Need help finding glasses for children asap plz help!

[Dixiefireball]

Hi guys I know i can trun to you all when I can't find something so plz help if you know any infromation. there is a lady here that needs help finding her son glasses her son has medicaid but it will take medicaid up to four to eight weeks to get the glasses he needs in if she pays for them it will be 150.00 that she doesnt have she doesnt work and her son needs these glasses Now the doctor said her son should have had glasses two to three years ago her son eyes are really bad:( She has been taking her son to the eye doctor and telling the doctor he has headaches but they never dialted (sp?) his eyes before well this time they did. This was a diff doctor then she normally takes him to but this one found the problem. I hate to see a child need something and can't get it exp. when it due to there health.
I told her to check out len's crafters and i did some reserch in it and it came out they only help once a year and that is for people that doesnt have inc. and the time they do it is right before school starts.
the doctor told her there was no need for him to call the company because medicaid only contracted one company to do this. if medicaid had contracted more company to do this then this child wouldnt have to wait.:( its so sad.
thanks for your input on this matter.
sending you all hugs and prayers
Rhonda:kiss:

[kelly McC]

I found this site
http://www.lighthouse.org/resources_financial.htm

[kelly McC]

http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/financialaid.htm

[kelly McC]

this site has a $75.00 dollar off coupon for lens crafters
http://www.keycode.com/?source=google&sourceDet=eyeglasses&target=125

[Dixiefireball]

Thank you Kelly I will pass this on to her.
Please keep the information coming everyone so if one doesnt work she has another one to fall back on.
Thank You.
Rhonda

[kelly McC]

The bottom of this site suggest calling local hospitals and speaking with a hospital social worker. It says they are knowledgable in community health support organizations.
http://www.eyesearch.com/thru.kids.eyes.htm

[sleepyangel30]

kelly is so good at finding things for low income, Thank god for the internet :angel:

[Dixiefireball]

Child Care for Families Leaving Temporary Assistance for Needy
[18] II. Child Care Issues for Low-Income Families Leaving Welfare ... activities if those conditions are not corrected by glasses, medication, or...
http://www.welfarelaw.org/childcare_leavers.htm

17. Food, Clothing & Shelter
...food bank, medicine program, help for low-income families; Energy Assistance Program, Garden Program, Fan Program, Glasses through Lion's Club...
http://www.careerdepot.org/food.htm

[Dixiefireball]

California Budget Project - Legislature Passes Child Health
Increasing the income eligibility level for Medi-Cal to 100 percent of FPL for ... abuse treatment, dental care, and annual eye exams and glasses.
http://www.cbp.org/1997/qh970926.html

22. Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center
...medical care • dental care • eye examinations and glasses • social services counseling • limited X-ray and laboratory services...
http://www.goodsamhwc.org/About%20Us.html

23. Cozad Housing Authority, housing in Cozad, Nebraska
...pensions, VA benefits, etc. Adjustments to your income to be deducted from income include prescription drugs, eye glasses, hearing aids, and...
http://www.cozadhousingauthority.com/cozad.html

24. Health Help
2) Pays for Medicare Part B premiums under the Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries ... My eleven-year-old daughter gets glasses, contacts...
http://www.lesko.com/help/HealthHelp.htm

25. NHS Exemptions. Glasses.
...of glasses -Income Support -Income-based Job Seekers Allowance -Tax Credit (named on a NHS Exemption Certificate) Named in an NHS Low Income...
http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/fiu/exempt/glasses.htm
26. DISCARDED GLASSES BRING NEW HOPE AND A BRIGHT FUTURE
...two-day eyecare clinic held in Morelia, Mexico recently, it was my job to dispense the glasses to the low-income people participating in the...
http://www.burbank.com/morelia.shtml

27. Four Corners - 09/07/2001: Going Backwards
In fact, they helped me get my glasses I have ... and, at the same time, by giving tax credits to low-wage earners and low-income families, it would...
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s326017.htm

28. FREE CASH GRANTS! Get Millions in Free Grant Money!
Consultants * Career Changes * To Help Pay Rent Payments For Low Income Households * Job ... and sleeping disorders, eye glasses, hearing aids, and...
http://www.successfulstrategies.net/giveaway3.htm

29. Part 4, Zoning and Design Requirements for Residential Districts
...housing opportunities in that portion of the township designated to accommodate the township's low/moderate-income housing consistent with the...
http://www.colts-neck.nj.us/code/ch102e.html

30. Reno News and Review Theater review - September 4, 2003
Between a partnership with the Lions Club (raising money for eye glasses for low income people), an upcoming production of Whose Life is it...
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/2003-09-04/theater.asp

[Dixiefireball]

LIONS AND LIONESS
...such as Madison Eye Bank, Lions camp for the handicapped, preschool vision screening and providing eye exams and glasses for low income people.
http://danenet.wicip.org/sccm/lions/lion_all.htm

32. Events
...donations have been used to make vehicles wheelchair accessible for small children, provide glasses for low- income youth and send kids with...
http://members.tripod.com/watts1234/id16.htm

33. The News Item
...has endorsed VISION USA, a program that provides free eye examinations and corrective glasses to low-income working families in Pennsylvania.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7509464&BRD=2311&PAG=461&dept_id=482260&rfi=6

34. ResourseGuide
(219) 925-0849 --- (800) 232-4384 --- Provides assistance for low income families to receive glasses. INDIANA PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY SERVICES...
http://www.gkbheadstart.org/resourse.htm

35. glasses eye glasses - Fachversand für Kontaktlinsen und Pflegemittel
The personal income glasses eye glasses has a lower than average number of bands and, taxes capital income at an unusually low rate.
http://www.verzeichniswelt.de/glasses_eye_glasses-37875.html
36. glasses - Fachversand für Kontaktlinsen und Pflegemittel
...higher degree of glasses compliance. Moreover, the base of the corporate income glasses should ... reliance on property taxes, which are low by...
http://www.optik-plus.de/glasses-7305.html

37. Executive Summary
...for their low vision. Having glasses close by was ... Low income respondents were less fervent information seekers than those with more money.
http://www.nei.nih.gov/nehep/execsum.htm

38. Glaucoma Research Foundation - Low Vision Resources
...with standard prescription glasses. Low vision ... Coordinates Vision USA, a program of free eye care to uninsured, low-income workers and their...
http://www.glaucoma.org/living/low_vision.html

39. Personal Income Tax Ckecklist Canada - Independent Financial
Deductible Expenses: Glasses, Dental work, Drugs ... Certain renovations to the home of a disabled person. Common Problems: Can the low income...
http://www.ifcincorp.com/taxcheck.html

40. Don't turn a blind eye
...complex glasses. Who can get help with a private sight test and/or voucher for glasses/contact lenses? People on low income (HC3 certificate...
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/health/dtbe-00.asp

[ICNDonna]

Your local Lions Club should be able to help. Every Lions Club has a member who is responsible for following up on requests for assistance in getting needed eyeglasses --- I am the coordinator in our club. If you can't locate a Lions Club in your area, please let me know and I will check on it for you.

Warm hugs,
Lion Donna

[Dixiefireball]

thank you donna that is sweet of you i will pass this information on