If you’ve ever felt uncertain about navigating your vision health journey, the ASPECT Program—short for Advocacy, Support, Perspective, Empowerment, Communication, and Training—created by Prevent Blindness can help you gain confidence while engaging with and helping others. Learn more about it here.*

Empowerment Through Advocacy and Support

The ASPECT Program invites you to be more than a patient—it encourages you to be an advocate. You’ll learn how to:

• Speak up for your vision health needs, 
• Share your experiences, and 
• Influence policy by using your voice to create change. 

Through tailored support and access to resources, you won’t feel alone in your journey. Whether you’re managing an eye condition or supporting a loved one who is, ASPECT connects you with peers, professionals, and tools that guide and uplift you.

Gaining Perspective and Building Communication Skills

Understanding your vision condition from multiple angles—medical, emotional, and social—is essential. Participation in ASPECT can help you gain broader perspective so you can make informed choices and set meaningful goals. 

It also provides opportunities to strengthen your communication skills, making it easier to collaborate with your eye care team, ask the right questions, and express your needs clearly. This two-way communication is critical in making your care more personal and effective.

Training for Lifelong Confidence

Per the program founders at Prevent Blindness, ASPECT isn’t just a one-time resource—it’s training for life. It can help you build skills that support your long-term health journey, such as:

• Decision-making, 
• Self-advocacy, and 
• How to educate others in your community about vision care. 

The program also prepares you to be a leader in patient engagement, giving you the tools to share your story, inspire others, and help shape a more responsive health care system.

ASPECT can help prepare you to not only better manage your eye health, but also to actively shape it. You’ll be equipped with the knowledge, confidence, and support system to advocate for yourself and others. Whether you’re new to vision care or already living with an eye condition, this program is your pathway to empowered, informed, and connected care.

*Prevent Blindness. (n.d.). ASPECT Patient Engagement Program. https://preventblindness.org/aspect-patient-engagement-program/ 

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