LightHouse for the Blind - San Francisco Bay Area

07/25/2025

We LOVE adaptive sports!! 🦯🏀🧑‍🦽 Excellent shot, EHC Camper!!!!

07/24/2025

We concluded a fantastic EPIC (Employment Readiness Ignites Confidence) summer program! Our students enjoyed four weeks of work and play all around the San Francisco Bay Area and Napa Valley. Thank you to our students for their hard work and our staff for their dedication to making employment readiness and education fun! 🥳 🦯 🦮

To learn more about LightHouse programs and services, visit: https://lighthouse-sf.org/lighthouse-programs/

Photo 1: Students pose on a rooftop at the Visa Corporate office, a view of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco skyline can be seen behind them
Photo 2: Students check out the Visa corporate office during a tour
Photo 3: Students perform a skit while working as Counselors in Training at Enchanted Hills Camp in Napa
Photos 4 & 5: Students preparing meals in the accessible kitchen at the LightHouse HQ
Photo 6: Students making truffles at Dandelion Chocolate
Photo 7 & 8: Students and staff exploring Alcatraz

07/22/2025

Looking for a fun and creative way to spend a Saturday? LightHouse's Director of MAD Lab, Naomi Rosenberg, joined by Chancey Fleet and Marco Salsiccia, are hosting a Non-Visual Drawing Workshop at 836M Gallery! The workshop will cover several drawing techniques for blind and low vision artists, including spatial reasoning skills, and a walk-through of ways to teach tactile reading skills.

Location: 836M Gallery, 836 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94133

To register, visit the 836M Eventbrite page:

Join us at 836M for Nonvisual Drawing Workshop with Marco Salsiccia, Chancey Fleet, and Naomi Rosenberg.

07/15/2025

Happy Disability Month! What a privilege it was for LightHouse staff to have been invited to attend the San Francisco's Board of Supervisors' Resolution on the ADA 35th Anniversary at City Hall this afternoon! To learn more about other American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Anniversary celebrations, visit the LightHouse calendar: www.lighthouse-sf.org/calendar 🥳🦯🦽

Photo caption: A view of the marble, cement, and gold plated City Hall building with a tree-lined gravel path and a blue sky

07/10/2025

Sending our love and support to the Texas Hill Country camp community and all of those impacted by the flooding. ♥️

To learn about how you can help, check out the American Camp Association page for details, or follow the link in the Enchanted Hills Camp post below.

ACA has collected various ways you can help the Texas Hill Country in the wake of the devastating floods.

07/10/2025

We had a fantastic time yesterday at the annual Elks Picnic at Junipero Serra County Park in San Bruno. We ate, chatted, laughed, and played Bingo with friends, old and new! This event has been taking place for over 30 years now! 🤩 Thank you, Elks, LightHouse staff, and our awesome community members! 🧺 🥳 🦯

Photo 1: picnickers and an elk member gather around a table
Photo 2: an Elks member and a student pose together
Photo 3: another image of picnickers gathered around a table
Photo 4: a LightHouse staff member facilitates a game of bingo

07/08/2025

🚨 IMPORTANT UPDATE 🚨
The online program, Poetry Workshop: Finding Your Voice Through Verse, has a new time! Please join LightHouse and guest author, Alyssa Chadow, on Thursdays July 10 & 24 from 1:30 - 3:00 PM Pacific. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this time change may have caused.

For more info about this program, please visit: https://bit.ly/3U1btAJ

We hope all our fellow poets and creatives are as excited about the workshop as we are! See you at our new time at 1:30 PM this Thursday!

Thursdays, July 10 and 24, 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Online Event What is a poem, and why do we write…

07/08/2025

Camp is thriving, in person and online! Join our virtual Time Capsule tonight at 7 PM, sign up for the EHC Alumni Newsletter, and don’t forget to tag us in all your Enchanted Hills Camp Summer 2025 photos!

Please join former Enchanted Hills Camp Director, Tony Fletcher as he interviews Sally Deitz who worked as a counselor at…

07/01/2025

EPIC (Employment Readiness Ignites Confidence) folks went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Santa Cruz Boardwalk this past weekend. At the aquarium, we got a behind the scenes tour of a touch pool and even got to touch some moon jellies in their tank. EPIC folks also learned about exhibit design and provided feedback on a new audio exhibit.

This trip was made possible through a generous grant from the California State Coastal Conservancy.

Photo 1: EPIC Students pose in front of giant floor two ceiling Cuevas
Photo 2: a student and his black lab guy dog check out a jellyfish tank from behind the scenes
Photo 3: students explore a touch pool at the aquarium
Photo 4: a student looks at an aquarium exhibit from behind the scenes
Photo 5: aquarium staff explain jellyfish exhibits to students from behind the scenes
Photo 6: EPIC students pose on a deck overlooking the Monterey Bay
Photo 7; another photo of students and staff on the deck overlooking the Monterey Bay
Photo 8: staff and students enjoy ice cream in Santa Cruz

Photo 9: staff, student, and black lab guy dog posed together on the Santa Cruz Beach board
Photo 10: staff and student take a selfie at the Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk

07/01/2025

Wow! Sixty years of fun-filled summers, lifelong friendships, and a legacy campership! Thank you for spending your summers with us, Billy! We can’t wait to have you back for your 61st year!

06/30/2025

EHC is the place to be! We love seeing our campers out exploring the enchanted trails!

06/27/2025

What a fantastic afternoon celebrating our community partners at yesterday's LightHouse Day! A special thank you to our event sponsor, Uber, and all of the other incredible local and national businesses that have partnered with LightHouse to improve accessibility for the BVI community! Together, we can make the world a more inclusive place for everyone!

Photo 1: LightHouse staff member speaks into a microphone welcoming everyone to LightHouse Day
Photos 2 - 4: Different shots of groups of people gathered in the LightHouse reception area and event space mingling and chatting with one another