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Saluting individuals and organizations who make a positive difference in public transportation and in Kansas City.
Alphapointe is pleased to honor its dedicated team members with our annual series of recognition awards. These individuals represent the collective spirit and determination as Alphapointe pursues its commitment toward achieving its mission of empowering people with vision loss to achieve their goals and aspirations. Since our founding in 1911, thousands of individuals have worked…
Alphapointe, one of the nation’s largest providers of rehabilitation services and employment for people who are blind, announced its newly forged alliance with Overland Park-based Kansas City Vision Performance Center, an independent practice in Kansas. This alliance allows the parties to combine efforts to offer low vision rehabilitation and therapeutic services in the Kansas City…
As Katy Olsen observed her surroundings in a massive conference room in a massive conference hotel, halfway around the country from her hometown, a single dominating thought occupied her mind. “I will never use a cane in my life.” That was in 2015 at the National Federation of the Blind’s National Convention in Orlando. A…
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA), in partnership with Alphapointe and Sensible Innovation, has developed a wayfinding app to help blind and visually impaired transit customers use transit more safely and accurately. It is the first application of its kind to be applied to an entire transit corridor in the United States. The RideKC…
“We’re going to work around challenges or we’re going to bust through them.” – Reinhard Mabry When current Alphapointe President and CEO, Reinhard Mabry, walked through the doors of Alphapointe in the early summer of 2006, he wasn’t aware of the challenges that lay ahead. Soon he’d be managing through the global financial crisis of…