Take Charge with Confidence and Self-Reliance

  • Turning the Tables: CCB Role Reversal Day 2022

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    Dan Burke

    Turning the Tables: CCB Role Reversal Day 2022

    Students from every continent and every epoch imagine, even if only idly, of someday, somehow turning the tables on their teachers. Likely they don’t realize until they have done it, that their teachers also may see such a reversal as an opportunity to return the torment. That’s partly the story of Role Reversal Day 2022,…

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  • Colorado Center for the Blind 2022 Summer Youth Programs

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    Dan Burke

    Colorado Center for the Blind 2022 Summer Youth Programs

    Build skills and gain confidence! Program Description  This 3-week residential  program will provide each student with the tools that they need to move forward in high school, college or on a job. You will: Live in an apartment with a counselor and a roommate.Learn from competent blind adults who use blindness skills daily.Plan, shop and…

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  • Charity From Ashes: Colorado Center for the Blind Students Organize Donation Drive for Avista Hospital NICU Babies

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    Taylor Oesch

    Charity From Ashes: Colorado Center for the Blind Students Organize Donation Drive for Avista Hospital NICU Babies

    The CCB Student Association has already collected many items, as well as Amazon gift cards to help out Avista’s NICU babies. Amanda Juetten (President) and Taylor Oesch (Parliamentarian) show off some of the donations, which include blankets, caps, t-shirts and more. With the start of any new year, hopes are high that the trials and…

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  • Thank You for Our Best Colorado Gives Day, EVER! #Gratitude

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    Dan Burke

    Thank You for Our Best Colorado Gives Day, EVER! #Gratitude

    This December 7 you surpassed previous years with your support for the Colorado Center for the Blind and our programs for blind people of all ages, making 2021 one of the best we’ve been lucky enough to experience on Colorado Gives Day. And we’ve been part of it from the very beginning. So, we are…

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  • Our Blindness Training Is Just the Beginning – Donate on Colorado Gives Day!

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    Dan Burke

    Our Blindness Training Is Just the Beginning – Donate on Colorado Gives Day!

    The blindness training we offer, and the confidence it builds in our blind students, is not an end, but a means. Ryan is an IT project manager. Erin is an insurance underwriter. Garrett is finishing law school, Charis is pursuing her degree in chemistry. Just this year, Evan’s internship at the Audio Information Network of…

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  • Our Staff Make the Difference: Donate on Tuesday, Colorado Gives Day!

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    Dan Burke

    Our Staff Make the Difference: Donate on Tuesday, Colorado Gives Day!

    It’s our job at the Colorado Center for the Blind to believe in our students, often well-before they begin to believe in themselves. “We see you struggle when you first come for training, ” Assistive Technology Instructor Brett Boyer often says, “but we also have the privilege of watching you grow … and it’s always…

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  • ‘I am not my blindness’: What the blind community wishes you knew – from USA TODAY

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    Dan Burke

    ‘I am not my blindness’: What the blind community wishes you knew – from USA TODAY

    This article appeared in USA Today yesterday, November 17. It features our graduate Erin Daley, of whom we are naturally quite proud. In the article, Erin mentions that she loves to travel and will be visiting the Baltic countries. Well, she’s on her way right now! If you’re a sighted person, you likely have misconceptions…

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  • Challenging the Rock with Denver Climbing Co. #ChallengeRec

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    Dan Burke

    Challenging the Rock with Denver Climbing Co. #ChallengeRec

    Late this spring we determined to bring challenge recreation back for our students. We set it aside for over a year for reasons of social distancing, etc. First, We arranged to go whitewater rafting in Idaho Springs, where we’d gone for almost ten years, and it was great to be back on Clear Creek with…

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  • It’s Colorado Giving Season – Schedule a Donation for Dec. 7!

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    Dan Burke

    It’s Colorado Giving Season – Schedule a Donation for Dec. 7!

    Nothing tempers the desire of our students to find the tools and the belief in themselves that will sustain them in their quest to live lives of independence and success! And so, still cautious, still wearing masks indoors all day, the Colorado Center for the Blind carries on with the training and the programs that…

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  • First Prize in Parade!

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    Dan Burke

    First Prize in Parade!

    The certificate has arrived! Of course, the winners of the 2021 Littleton Western Welcome Week Grand Parade were announced back in August, but now that we have that piece of paper we can’t help but crow a little! And so we won first prize in the Group/School category! Hooray! Was it the noisemakers? Was it…

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