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39.6. Additional Programs or Resources
Access Home Modification Program
Phone: (800) 822-1174
The Access Home Modification Program provides mortgage loans to assist persons with disabilities or who have a family member(s) living in the household with disabilities who are purchasing a home that needs accessibility modifications. This program provides a deferred payment loan, with no interest, and no monthly payment.
accessAbilities
Phone: (724) 832-8272
Contact via email
accessAbilities is a nonprofit organization that provides home-based services for children, adults, and seniors with disabilities in Armstrong, Indiana, and Westmoreland counties.
Accessible PA
Accessible PA combines the latest information on programs and services in one convenient site for people of all ages with disabilities, as well as their families and support providers.
The Adam Taliaferro Foundation
(856) 582-0212
Provides emotional, financial and educational support to student-athletes who suffer catastrophic head or spinal injuries in sanctioned team events in New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Delaware. The foundation also provides educational and financial support related to the research, prevention and care of such injuries.
ADAPT of Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 835-8418
Contact: Shona & Mike Eakin
We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
AgrAbility for Pennsylvanians
Phone: (814) 863-7490
AgrAbility staff provides direct services for farmers and farm family members with a disability or long-term health condition who want to remain in production agriculture.
Canine Partners For Life
Phone: (610) 869-4902 Ext. 221
Canine Partners For Life (CPL) trains and places assistance dogs with individuals with mobility impairments to help increase their independence and quality of life.
Carousel House
Phone: (215) 685-0160
Carousel House is dedicated to providing socialization, recreational and educational services to persons with disabilities who reside throughout the Philadelphia area. It is the first of its kind in the United States sponsored by a municipality. The year-round program is conducted within a 6.4 acre indoor and outdoor complex which includes a picnic area, an accessible garden, playground, and a fitness track. The state-of-the-art, air conditioned indoor facility, includes an auditorium, meeting room, computer lab, gymnasium, exercise room with wheelchair accessible weight equipment, arts and crafts room, fully equipped kitchen, game room, first aid station and swimming pool with an adjustable floor.
Center for Assistive Technology
Phone: (412) 647-1310
At CAT, we strive to provide you with commercially available or customized assistive technologies that will help you interact to the greatest possible extent with your family, in your workplace, and in your community.
Community Options, Inc.
Phone: (609) 951-9900
Community Options provides housing, support services and advocacy assistance to help empower people with disabilities.
Disabilities Law Project
Phone: (215) 238-8070
The Disabilities Law Project (DLP) is a non profit statewide public interest law firm that provides legal assistance and other services to individuals with disabilities, their organizations, their families, and their advocates. DLP's main purpose is to advocate for the civil rights of persons with mental and physical disabilities, especially their right to live as integral parts of their communities.
Easter Seals Central Pennsylvania
Phone: (888) 463-3093
Easter Seals provides services to children and adults with disabilities and other special needs, and support to their families.
Easter Seals Eastern Pennsylvania
Phone: (610) 289-0114
Easter Seals Eastern Pennsylvania (ESEP) provides quality services to children and adults with disabilities, and support to their families.
Easter Seals South Central Pennsylvania
Phone: (888) 273-7351
The Easter Seals South Central PA chapter serves the six counties of Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York. Easter Seals mission is to help people live with equality, dignity, and independence.
Easter Seals Southeastern Pennsylvania
Phone: (215) 879-1000
Easter Seals of Southeastern Pennsylvania serves Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties in an effort to maximize the independence of children and adults with disabilities.
Easter Seals Western Pennsylvania
Phone: (800) 587-3257
Creates solutions that change lives of children and adults with disabilities and other special needs.
HOPE Network
412.826.2703
The mission of HOPE Network is to promote community integration of people with physical disability and chronic health conditions in southwestern Pennsylvania through sports and recreation programs and services that support return to healthy, productive lifestyles.
Inglis Foundation
Phone: (866) 246-4547
Inglis Foundation works with people with physical disabilities to create and provide practical solutions so they may pursue their life goals. Services include long-term care and a scope of community-based services that include wheelchair accessible housing, community employment services, care management, attendant care, an adult day program and mobility equipment.
JEVS Supports for Independence
JEVS Supports for Independence has three service segments: Attendant Care, Home Health Care, and Fiscal/Payment Agent Services. We provide quality Personal Assistance Services that allow people to remain in their homes by empowering them to manage and direct the delivery of their own care.
Keystone ADAPT
Phone: (570) 628-4292
Contact: Linda Anthony
We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
Keystone Warriors Division 2 Wheelchair Basketball Team
Phone: (412) 826-2703
Contact: Leah Gray
They are a Division 2, men's wheelchair basketball team that entails a recruting pool from Western PA, Northern WV, and Eastern OH. This division is very competitive so we are looking for men and women who want to be serious competitive players. Team practice sites will vary depending upon roster.
Parent Education Network
Phone: (800) 522-5827
Phone: (800) 441-5082
Contact: (Spanish)
Parent Education Network (PEN) is a statewide coalition in Pennsylvania of parents of children representing a range of disabilities and ages. PEN believes strongly that knowledgeable, skillful parents impact effectively on early intervention, special education, and adult services for their child with disabilities.
Parent to Parent of Pennsylvania
Phone: (800) 986-4550
Parent to Parent of Pennsylvania is a network created by families for families of children and adults with special needs. We connect families in similar situations with one another so that they may share experiences, offer practical information and/or support.
Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation (PATF)
Phone: (877) 693-7271
PA Assistive Technology Foundation (PATF) is a non-profit organization that provides low-interest loans to people with disabilities and older adults so that they can buy the assistive technology devices and services they need. Offer loans or grants for assistive technology for persons with disabilities
Pennsylvania Protection & Advocacy
Phone: (800) 692-7443
PP&A works with people with disabilities and their families to ensure their rights to live in their communities with the services they need, to receive a full and inclusive education, to live free of discrimination, abuse and neglect, and to have control and self–determination over their services.
Philadelphia ADAPT
Phone: (215) 627-7255
Contact: Nancy Salandra
We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
Philadelphia PowerPlay
Phone: (610) 259-6977
Contact: Pat Hilferty
mission is to provide a community based competitive athletic experience for people who use power wheelchairs in their daily lives.
Recycled Equipment Exchange Project (REEP)
Phone: (800) 633-4588
REEP is a free statewide service for people with disabilities, their families, friends, service providers and other interested individuals. Equipment in the REEP listing can range from simple home adaptations, to wheelchairs, to computers and software.
Rehabilitation Counselor
Contact via email
This site contains information regarding assistive technology, adaptive sports, adaptive driving and information for resources located in Pennsylvania.
Self Determination Housing Project of Pennsylvania
Phone: (610) 873-9595
The mission of SDHP is to promote self-determination and control in housing for people with disabilities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The SDHP Website provides information and resources that empower people with disabilities in Pennsylvania to have control over their housing choices.
Southwestern PA ADAPT
Phone: (724) 223-5115
Contact: John Lorence
We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.
Speaking For Ourselves
Phone: (610) 825-4592
Speaking For Ourselves, a non-profit organization, is a pioneer in self-advocacy for people with disabilities.
Steel City Starz
Phone: (412) 826-2703
Contact: Leah Gray
Join one of only 14 all-women's competitive wheelchair basketball teams in the USA. Any female with a lower-extremity impairment is eligible to play. Participants must use a wheelchair to play, but do not need to be an everyday wheelchair user. The team is always looking for new members!
Three Rivers Adaptive Sports
Phone: (412) 848-8896
TRAS, a non-profit organization, is comprised of individuals with physical challenges, health care professionals, and able bodied individuals. These members all volunteer many hours toward one goal - to educate and provide quality year-round sports and recreational opportunities for individuals with disabilities, their families and friends. Over the past years, TRAS has grown to provide a variety of adaptive sports and recreational activities for individuals with disabilities. Activities include: camping and canoeing; kayaking; water skiing; snow skiing; cycling; paint ball and many more.
Variety – The Children's Charity
Our programs and services are designed to best address the children's physical, social, medical, educational, and recreational needs without regards to economic status, race, creed, gender, or type of disability.
Variety- The Children's Charity- Pittsburgh
Phone: (412) 747-2680
Contact: Sandra R. Thompson, Director of Programs and Community Outreach
Variety the Children's Charity of Pittsburgh assists children with mental and physical disabilities and other health challenges, 21 years of age & under, in a ten county area of southwestern Pennsylvania: Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington, and Westmoreland.
VisitAbility In Pennsylvania
Phone: (800) 341-3458 Ext. 111
The focus of this site is not regulatory, but to provide practical tools for implementing visitable features, to provide home buyers, developers, contractors and advocates with some methods and details, and to promote understanding of the many reasons why including them in as many homes as possible is not only a physical but a social good, with positive results for virtually everyone.
