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Disability Empowerment Center - Advocacy and Independent Skills Training

Provides advocacy for individuals with disabilities, independent skills training, information and referral, and service coordination for individuals on waivers.

What's Here

Mentoring Programs
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Advocacy
Specialized Information and Referral
Disabilities Issues
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living

Abilities in Motion - Independent Living Services

Offers a wide spectrum of programs and services to meet the needs of the local disability community. Services include: *Disability Advocacy *Person Centered Counseling *Voter rights *Peer Support *E-sports *Technology Center

What's Here

Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disabilities Issues
Centers for Independent Living
Advocacy

Inglis - 811 Project Rental Assistance Program

Serves as the waitlist administrators for the 811 Project Rental Assistance (PRA) program, a project-based rental assistance specifically for extremely low-income persons with disabilities.

What's Here

Housing Search Assistance
Disabilities Issues
Older Adult/Disability Related Supportive Housing

Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living of North Central PA - Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities

Provides education and outreach presentations to businesses, provider agencies, community partners and people with disabilities. Presentations include Accessibility Surveys, Disability Sensitivity and Awareness, and guidance to assure compliance with the ADA.

What's Here

Physical Disabilities
Specialized Information and Referral
Advocacy
Centers for Independent Living
Disabilities Issues
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Mentoring Programs

Eat Share - Home Delivered Meals

Eat Share is a collection of volunteers throughout north central Pennsylvania who bring warm meals to neighbors when it's needed most.

What's Here

Home Delivered Meals
Homebound
Disabilities Issues

Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living (LVCIL) - LVCIL (Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living)

The only organization in the Lehigh Valley dedicated to assisting persons with all types of disabilities. Provides community outreach and education, independent living skills, information on adaptive technologies/equipment, advocacy, information and referral, peer support, sign language interpreter referral service and specialized housing search and support. Provides information on programs that will pay for home modifications (to increase accessibility). Transportation & Housing Support Connect individuals with disabilities who are homeless to shelters Assistive Technology Offers Information and Assistance for Assistive Technology and Adaptive Equipment inquiries; Supports the Assistive Technology Lending Library/loan program offered statewide; Offers Funding information for Assistive Technology; houses a Reused Equipment Exchange Program, and more.

What's Here

Specialized Information and Referral
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Homeless Transportation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Wheelchair Donation Programs
Sign Language Interpretation
Toileting Aids
Walking Aid Donation Programs
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Disabilities Issues
Walking Aids
Electric Scooters
School to Adult Life Transition Services
Advocacy
Wheelchairs/Wheeled Mobility

Bucks County Center for Independent Living - Independent Living Assistance

Provides core independent living services, including information and referral, individual and systemic advocacy, peer support (in-person and virtually), and independent living skills training. Also provides transition services to support persons transitioning from school to the adult world, and from care facilities into the community.

What's Here

School to Adult Life Transition Services
Disabilities Issues
Peer Mental Health Support Services
Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Advocacy

Canine Partners for Life - Canine Partners for Life

Provides professionally trained service and companion dogs to people with mobility impairments, seizure disorders, cardiac conditions (Dysautonomia), Diabetes, and other disabilities/needs.

What's Here

Disabilities Issues
Physical Therapy
Service Animals
Supportive Therapies

Anthracite Region Center for Independent Living - Information and Referral

ARCIL can help answer our questions about support services, government benefits, adaptive equipment, accessibility and other topics related to disabilities.

What's Here

Centers for Independent Living
Disabilities Issues
Specialized Information and Referral

Lycoming/Clinton Joinder Board - Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Services

Provides a variety of services to assist individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and their families to live and work in their home communities. Support services offered are based in the local community and encourage active participation by the individual, their family, friends, and neighbors. Services include: residential and in-home care, vocational and employment services, family support and specialized therapies, and specialized early intervention services for children from birth to age 3 who have a developmental delay.

What's Here

Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Home/Community Based Developmental Disabilities Programs
Disabilities Issues
Case/Care Management

Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living of North Central PA - Information and Referral (I&R) for Disabililty-Related Resources

Enables persons with disabilities and their families to find, utilize, and coordinate available resources and opportunities in their communities based on their individual needs.

What's Here

Disabilities Issues
Specialized Information and Referral

Arc of Erie County - Social Club

Provides activities and workshops for older teens and young adults with any disability.

What's Here

Social Clubs/Events
Disabilities Issues

Voices for Independence - Independent Living Skills Instruction

Services for people with disabilities: housing referral service; technical assistance and recommendations for making existing and new structures accessible; care counseling and attendant care; homemaker services (in Washington County only); in-home skills

What's Here

Health/Disability Related Counseling
Attendant Services for People With Disabilities
Disabilities Issues
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Accessibility Information

Liberty Resources - Advocacy

Provides skills training classes, peer support, advocacy, information and referral, nursing home, and youth transition services to individuals with disabilities.

What's Here

Disability Awareness Training
Advocacy
Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups
Disabilities Issues

Center for Independent Living of Central Pennsylvania - Advocacy

Advocates and volunteers work on state and local disability issues.

What's Here

Disability Rights Groups
Advocacy
Centers for Independent Living
Disabilities Issues

Variety - The Children's Charity of the Delaware Valley - VarietyWorks

Assists youth with physical and cognitive disabilities to find employment in their communities. Offers work in greenhouses and commercial kitchen on the agency's campus.

What's Here

Disabilities Issues
Career Development

Evolve Coaching - Future Camp

Offers a two-week summer arts camp that hosts both neurodiverse and neurotypical learners for a series of classes in writing, visual arts, animation, music, and more.

What's Here

Autism Spectrum Disorder
Special Interest Camps
Day Camps
Summer Camps
Disabilities Issues
Arts/Humanities Issues

Roads to Freedom Center for Independent Living of North Central PA - Community Integration

Community Integration is a service for those individuals who will be transitioning back into their community, or to a new community from a nursing facility or similar.

What's Here

Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Disabilities Issues
Case/Care Management

Liberty Resources - Housing Counseling

Provides counseling and advocates for individuals with disabilities seeking affordable and accessible housing.

What's Here

Homebuyer/Home Purchase Counseling
Low Income/Subsidized Private Rental Housing
Housing Search Assistance
Disabilities Issues
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities

Lehigh County MH/MR - Intellectual Disabilities

Provides a comprehensive array of services and supports to children and adults with intellectual disabilities, including support coordination, in-home supportive services, out of home placement assistance, groups homes, and information and referral services.

What's Here

Case/Care Management
Intellectual Disabilities
Disabilities Issues
Specialized Information and Referral

Pennsylvania Client Assistance Program - Advocacy for Individuals with Disabilites

Provides services for Information and Referral, Case and Care Management, Benefits and Services Assistance, Advocacy, and Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Disabilities.

What's Here

Case/Care Management
Disabilities Issues
Advocacy
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Specialized Information and Referral
General Benefits and Services Assistance

Service Access and Management - Headquarters - Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Supports Coordination

Services include: Advocacy of Individual rights Development and maintenance of an Individual Support Plan (ISP). Determining the need for services and developing "outcomes." Identifying and locating providers of services. Coordinating waiver services when funding is available. Ensuring services are received as outlined in the ISP. Ensuring health and safety.

What's Here

Case/Care Management
Disabilities Issues
Specialized Information and Referral
Intellectual Disabilities

CPARC - Arc of Cumberland and Perry Counties - Advocacy Services and Family Education

Works to ensure that people with disabilities have the same rights, opportunities, and privileges as people without disabilities. Offers training, resources, education, and assistance for families of people with intellectual disabilities through adult advocacy, systems advocacy, education advocacy, and outreach.

What's Here

Disabilities Issues
Disability Awareness Training
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Advocacy

Disability Empowerment Center - Advocacy and Independent Skills Training

Provides advocacy for individuals with disabilities, independent skills training, and information and referral.

What's Here

Certificates/Forms Assistance
Advocacy
Disabilities Issues
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Mentoring Programs

Meals On Wheels Erie - Home Delivered Meals Under Age 60 Program for Persons with Disabilities

Delivers ready-to-heat, freshly prepared, nutritious meals to individuals at home that may not be able to access food otherwise. Meals prepared by chefs at LECOM Senior Living Center.

What's Here

Disabilities Issues
Home Delivered Meals