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Our Next Big Event

ACCESSIBLE WATCH EVENT: Feeling Through

FOR DEAFBLIND PEOPLE ONLY

Join your friends in watching and discussing Feeling Through,

the Oscar-nominated short film about a deafblind man and a homeless

teen who meet by chance on a New York City street.

Thursday, May 13, 2021 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Email if you experience any difficulties with registration

Our Next Activity

CLASSIC BINGO

FOR DEAFBLIND PLAYERS ONLY

Saturday, May 1, 10:30 a.m. - noon

RSVP to

Due to the safety issues connected to COVID-19, all DB CAN NJ in-person activities have been suspended, but keep checking in for our online events!!

Past Events

Watch Invitation.pdf

Watch Invitation Text Only.docx

Our Recent Award

DB CAN NJ is honored to receive the Jamie C.Hilton Awareness Award presented in October 2020 by the NJ Department of Human Services Commission for the Blind & Visually Impaired in honor of our "advocacy and commitment to improving the quality of life for individuals who are deafblind."

Virtual Bingo on Zoom!

Valentine's Day 02/21, Halloween 10/20, Carnival 8/20

Classic Bingo (monthly)

3 balloons at top left – lime green, pink and light blue – with streamers of the same color hanging down the left side of the text; 3 balloons at top right - yellow, red, purple – also with streamers of the same color hanging down the right side of the text. Connecting the two bundles of balloons is a pennant streamer in blue, red and yellow.

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Carnival Bingo game caller and a clown. Wheel of Fortune in background.

Black bats fly across the top of the page. 3 black balloons below the bats, on both sides of the page with black streamers hanging down. Connecting the two bundles of balloons is the word HALLOWEEN in bold, black letters. The O in Halloween is an orange jack o lantern. A black cat sits on top of the letter N. Spiders hang down from the letters A, W, E and N.

Halloween Bingo participant with bug-eye glasses - big white eyes with black pupils - laughing broadly and holding a mason jar filled with colorful bugs.

An picture example of bingo game The Letter C - the top and bottom rows and the left column B are highlighted in yellow, making the letter C.

Santa comes to bingo!

Two big hearts popping up from a red banner that says Valentine’s Day. Hanging from the banner are 11 small hearts – some pink, some red, some are two hearts linked together, some with lace, some outlined, some solid. Below the hanging hearts is a bingo graphic: the letters B I N G O on red bingo balls.

Zoom chat box messages: 1 more twice!
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BINGO!
Next game: Full of It

Interpreter signing 8

Culture Encounters of the

DeafBlind Kind 2021

Easterseals Employee Training

Virtual

Montage of photos from virtual events

Easterseals Technology PP pdf 2.3.21_Pag

Important:
Pin the interpreter
Send tech issues to Brian via chat
Honor the Communication Rules
-use "Raise Hand" feature in Zoom
- 1 person talking/signing/typing at a time
- State your name
Be patient and respectful of all communication

Defining "DeafBlind"
State & Federal definitions - Must meet all 3 parts ...

PowerPoint introductory slide to
DeafBlind Technology
a Training workshop presented by DB CAN NJ Feb 3, 2021

Tech skills important?
You Betcha!

1st Ever DeafBlind Virtual Happy Hour 2020

Virtual (Zoom)

Cornhole DOMination & Chili Cook Off 2019

Hasbrouck Heights (NJ) VFW

Raised $2,319

Barnes & Noble Clifton

Gift Wrapping Fundraisers

2019 Raised over $1,100

2018 Raised over $800

2017 Raised over $500

Culture Encounters of the DeafBlind Kind 2019

Easter Seals Employee Training

East Brunswick, NJ

Man and woman tactile signing

Two young men walking - 1 with cane and dark glasses. Other man as guide.

Man and woman seated at a table

SSP signing with a deafblind woman

Drum Circle 2019

Rutgers Catholic Center

New Brunswick, NJ

Cornhole DOMination & Chili Cook Off 2018

Kearny (NJ) American Legion

Raised $2,891

Cornhole board with beanbags resting on top - handmade by Dom's father in red, wood and blue, I Love You hand in flesh tone on the blue, and the words: Domstrong Forever