Erica Vibert Named to Sights for Hope’s Client Casework Team

Sights for Hope has named Erica Vibert as its newest client caseworker. Vibert had been the agency’s Prevention Services Coordinator since Oct. 2020.

Caseworkers guide clients with visual impairments to services that meet their personal goals, monitor client progress, arrange for one-on-one instruction, and make referrals. Caseworkers also conduct home visits, during which they can help a client read mail, write checks, manage finances, and complete forms. Caseworkers also can perform basic home repairs to ensure a client’s safety. Vibert will serve as one of two caseworkers who work with clients in the Lehigh Valley area. Sights for Hope offers casework throughout its service area in both English and Spanish.

As Prevention Services Coordinator, Vibert helped provide free vision screenings for children and community education programs that promote healthy eyesight.

Prior to joining Sights for Hope, formerly known as Center for Vision Loss, Vibert was an assistant teacher at The Goodard School in Bethlehem, PA; a daycare teacher at Moravian Academy in Bethlehem, PA; a substitute teacher for the Delaware Valley School District in Milford, PA; and a coordinator for the Warwick Valley Prevention Coalition in Warwick, N.Y.

Vibert has a bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences from Moravian College.

Sights for Hope blends a service tradition inspired directly by Helen Keller in 1928 with contemporary practices to remove the barriers to independence and success caused by visual impairments. Sights for Hope transforms the lives of people with visual impairments in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and Monroe County through life skills education, specialized technologies, individualized support services, free vision screenings for children, and prevention education programs. Sights for Hope services impact more than 10,000 people in a typical year and are provided at little or no cost. A total of 85% of Sights for Hope clients with visual impairments are from low-income households. Sights for Hope, known formerly as Center for Vision Loss, is an independent member of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind (PAB) and is affiliated with the VisionServe Alliance, a network of North American agencies that serve people with visual impairments.