University of California Irvine Foundation

The UCI Eye Mobile for Children is essential to overcoming the barriers to much-needed eye care services for the underserved children of Orange County. Recognizing the access barriers to receiving eye care, we provide all services free-of-charge, onsite at the schools, and in multiple languages. Racial and socioeconomic inequities in access to care are also evident across a variety of measures and studies. The economic cost of children’s vision disorders is significant, amounting to $10 billion annually in the United States. Families shoulder 45 percent of these costs—not including the value associated with a diminished quality of life.