About VIPS Indiana

VIPS Indiana was a grassroots effort led by a mother of a child who was legally blind and a teacher of blind/low vision. These two knew the landscape for Indiana’s youngest children with blindness/low vision needed to change and their drive to help these children and their families motivated them to try to bring the VIPS mission to Indiana. With the backing of the VIPS Board of Directors and the VIPS executive director, this mother and teacher began providing services on August 1, 2011. VIPS Indiana started with eight children and the office has grown exponentially since then. We now have a network of teachers, interventionists, and Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists who provide vision-specific early intervention services to children, birth to three, across the state. We began a capital and operations campaign to build a Family Resource Center and in 2022 it opened to the public. We are proud of all that we’ve accomplished, but we have more work to do as more children need the specialized services we can offer.