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TEXT: A two part workshop designed to help families create safe, inclusive kitchens where blind and low vision youth can build independence and confidence. Presented by Fort Vancouver Lions Club, The Blind Kitchen, and the Clark County Food Bank.
TEXT: What You’ll Learn:
Make your kitchen accessible for all family members.
Safe cooking techniques for vision loss.
Labeling and organization strategies.
Measuring, cutting, and heat safety.
Building independence and confidence.
Take-Home Tools:
Participants will receive adaptive tools to practice skills at home!
Tool kits to be provided to each student!
TEXT: Workshop features:
Demonstration of adaptive culinary tools.
Hands-on instruction and discussion.
Strategies adaptable to all ability levels.
Access to follow-up video tutorials.
Workshop format:
2 session workshop.
2 hours each.
DESCRIBING: A square color photograph.
DESCRIPTION: A white woman with shoulder-length and light-brown hair is shown from the shoulders up in this portrait. She is facing the viewer and smiling. She is wearing a bright yellow shirt, and the dark strap of her apron is hanging around her neck, with just the top edge of the apron in the image.
RELATED TEXT: The instructor is Chef Debra Erickson, Founder of The Blind Kitchen.
TEXT: Who Should Attend?
Youth ages 8–22 with vision loss.
A Parent, guardian or caregiver.
An adult must attend.
TEXT: Event Details.
Date: October 13th and 20th, 2026.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Clark County Food Bank, 6502 NE 47th Ave, Vancouver, WA 98661.
Cost: FREE
Capacity: Limited to 8 families
Snacks provided
DESCRIPTION: There is a Lions Club International logo in the top left corner of this single-page handout. Each section of information has an emoji to highlight it in different ways. For What You'll Learn, there is a fork and knife emoji. Workshop Features has a toolbox icon. Who Should Attend has outlines of two people standing shoulder to shoulder, as just blue circles atop blue horizontal lines. Workshop Format uses a clock emoji. And the message about tool kits being provided has a wrapped package emoji, a present with a bow on top.
The Lions Club logo is mostly yellow with a dark blue background. For example, there is a large yellow L in a circle in the center, backed by the dark blue. Two faces of male lions, with manes, create the left and the right parts of the frame, with the lions facing to the side, shown in profile. Above them is a banner that reads "LIONS" across the top of the logo, and below them, and the large L, is a similar banner shape with the word "International" insides of it.
The other three logos are on the bottom of the page, from left to right, The Fort Vancouver Lions Club, TBK (The Blind Kitchen), and the Clark County Food Bank.
The Fort Vancouver Lions Club logo is circular, with the international Lions Club logo, described above, at the center bottom of the logo. The top of the logo, in a dark blue bar that rings a lighter blue interior circle, are the words "Fort Vancouver Lions Club." In the lighter blue circle, in the middle, there is a sketch of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site's stockade with the words "We Serve" above it and "Since 1955" below it. The stockade is a horizontal row of logs that are connected and upright, like a fence, and at each end of the fence are bastions, which are square-shaped tower tops, with triangular roofs, where the fort's security could climb up into them and observe the surroundings. There also is an American flag flying around the center of the stockade fence. Historians in the area might note that Fort Vancouver was a British trading company, not American, and the current reconstructed fort only has one of the bastions in place, not two.
The Blind Kitchen's logo has large letters "TBK" stacked on top of the words "The Blind Kitchen," as its base. Above "TBK" are three domino-shaped and vertical rectangles called braille cells. Each cell has six dots on it, stacked two across, with three rows. The first cell has the second of the two dots filled in on the first row, both of the dots on the second row, and the first of two dots on the third row, which represents the letter T. The second cell has the first dots filled in on the first two rows, representing B, and the third cell has the first dot on row 1 and row 3, indicating K.
That Clark County Food Bank logo has a green and yellow design showing a plate with silverware next to the words "Clark County" stacked upon "Food Bank." The plate icon has a design of a plant swooping diagonally across its middle. The plant has four sets of paired and matching leaves on the branch, with a single leaf at the tip of the stem.