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<span style="font-size:27.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#033B62;font-weight:normal">Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professionals Scholarships (VIOMPSP)<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.3pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing scholarship opportunities for U.S. citizens seeking degrees in
orientation and mobility, low vision therapy, or vision rehabilitation therapy.<br>
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The Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professionals Scholarship Program (VIOMPSP) awards scholarships to students pursuing a program of study leading to a degree in visual impairment or orientation and mobility in order to increase the supply of
qualified blind rehabilitation specialists for VA and the Nation.<br>
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Awards of scholarships under the VIOMPSP are subject to the availability of funds, and VA may award a full-time student a scholarship for a minimum of 1 year to a maximum of 4 years. VA may also award a part-time student a scholarship for a minimum of 1 year
to a maximum of 6 years. VA will give priority consideration to applicants entering their final year of education or training and will consider Veterans first among all equally qualified candidates. After completion of their education, participants must serve
as a full-time clinical VA employee for a minimum of three years in the rehabilitation practice of the participant's discipline in an assignment or location determined by VA while participating in the VIOMPSP. This obligated service would begin on the date
on which the participant obtains any required applicable credentials and when appointed as a full-time clinical VA employee in a position for which the degree prepared the participant.<br>
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Other terms and conditions apply. For more information on this program, please see the VIOMPSP Applicant Information Bulletin or visit VA Careers at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.vacareers.va.gov/"><span style="color:#033B62">www.vacareers.va.gov</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>or
the job listing at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/426951600"><span style="color:#033B62">Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Professionals Scholarship Program</span></a>.<br>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#033B62;font-weight:normal">Phone: (844) 456-5208<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#033B62;font-weight:normal">Email:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:CAVHS.DEU@VA.GOV"><span style="color:#033B62">CAVHS.DEU@VA.GOV</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#033B62;font-weight:normal">URL:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/4269516"><span style="color:#033B62">https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/4269516</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Carlton Anne Cook Walker, J.D., M.B.A., M.Ed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Manager of Braille Education Programs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">200 East Wells Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">Baltimore, MD 21230<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black">(410) 659-9314, extension 2225<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:CWalker@nfb.org"><span style="color:black">CWalker@nfb.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black;background:white">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people,
because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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