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What is NAC?
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National Accreditation Council for Agencies Serving People with
Blindness or Visual Impairment is the standard setting and accrediting
body that works with agencies and schools providing services and
programs to people who are blind. NAC is a voluntary, not-for-profit
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What is NAC's Mission?
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develop standards which promote effective, sound, and publicly
accountable programs of service which help visually disabled children
and adults achieve their full potential,
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ensure, through the accreditation process, that the standards are being
met by programs of service which seek accreditation, and
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To give public recognition to those agencies and schools which operate in compliance with the standards for accreditation.
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What is Accreditation?
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Accreditation
is fundamentally a system of voluntary self-regulation, based on the
philosophy that the accrediting process is a constructive experience
which produces improved quality and effectiveness of service through
the use of realistic, objective standards against which an organization
can measure its own performance.
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What are Standards and the Benefits of Accreditation?
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are yardsticks by which an organization or program can measure its
performance and outcomes. Agencies, schools and programs that use
accreditation to strive toward excellence derive value-added benefits
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being
able to measure service outcomes as a result of working toward
accreditation, the public recognition that accreditation conveys,
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bringing
together trustees, staff, and consumers to identify strengths and
weaknesses as well as setting objectives for the organization, and
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providing an ongoing management tool for strategic planning and measuring outcomes.
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National Accreditation Council
Steven K. Hegedeos, Executive Director
Judy Terezhalmy, Executive Assistant
7017 Pearl Rd.
Middleburg Hts., Ohio 44130
Phone: 440.545.1601
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