Link | Category | Description |
PA Inclusive Higher Education Consortium (PIHEC) | Topic, Post-Secondary Education | PIHEC creates fully inclusive opportunities for students, provides consultation and technical assistance for developing accessible inclusive higher education opportunities for young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. |
PA Secondary Transition Guide | Topic, Transportation | |
Parent Education and Leadership Center (PEAL Center) | Advocacy, State, Education | provides information, education and support for families of children with disabilities or special health care needs; children, youth and young adults with disabilities or special health care needs ages 0-26 |
Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation | Assistive Technology, Topic | provides education and financing opportunities for people with disabilities and older Pennsylvanians, helping them to acquire the assistive technology devices and services that improve the quality of their lives. |
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency | Topic, Emergency Preparedness | People with Disabilities |
Pennsylvania Peer Support Coalition | National, Health and Insurance, Inclusion | committed to transforming the mental health system statewide by promoting, supporting and advocating for peer support in Pennsylvania. |
Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Center | Topic, Education | provides a full array of professional development and technical assistance targeted to improving student results. |
Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy | State, Self-Advocacy | The Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Advocacy works to improve the lives of Autistic people. It believes that all Autistic and disabled people have the right to follow their dreams and be fully involved in decisions that affect their lives. |
PITTSBURGH COALITION ON THE INTERSECTION OF DISABILITY, RACE, ETHNICITY AND POVERTY | Advocacy, Topic | Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Americans with disabilities face unique systemic challenges as a result of their intersecting identities. The goal of the Coalition is to have conversations on intersectionality and seek potential holistic practical solutions to the difficult economic challenges faced by individuals of color with a disability. |
Pittsburgh Coalition on the Intersection of Disability, Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty | Advocacy | The Coalition's mission is to address the systemic challenges people with disabilities in BIPOC communities face as a result of their intersecting identities. |
Residential Services Barber National Institute | Topic, Community Involvement & Community Living | opportunities for adults to live in a supportive environment as fully participating members of the community |
SAFE: A Personal Safety Training Guide for Adults with Disabilities and Care Providers | Abuse & Personal Safety | This is a curriculum designed to educate adults with disabilities about abuse and their rights. The major theme of the curriculum is empowerment. For the purpose of this curriculum, empowerment is defined as the power of knowledge. The curriculum is designed to help participants know their rights. Their right to safety, their right to speak out and their right to get help. Knowledge and empowerment are core principles in personal safety. The creation of this curriculum was funded by the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council. |
Secondary Transition, PA Training and Technical Assistance | Topic, Transportation | |
Self Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center | Self-Advocacy, Self-Advocacy | The Center strengthens the self-advocacy movement by supporting self advocacy organizations to grow in diversity and leadership. |
Self Advocates United as One (SAU-1) | State, Self-Advocacy | Self Advocates United as 1 is a group of people who envision a world where people with developmental disabilities and their families are united to share knowledge, empower others, and use their voices to transform their communities and people’s lives. |
Self Determination Housing Project | Topic, Housing | The mission of SDHP is to promote self-determination and control in housing for all people with disabilities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. |
Sexual Health Resources for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities | Sexuality | Everyone has a part to play in providing sexual health education to youth with developmental disabilities. |
Sierra Transportation LLC | Transportation | To provide high quality, safe, efficient and personalized transportation to their clients. |
Skills of Central PA | Topic, Employment | |
Smart Homes Made Simple | State, Assistive Technology | This project raises awareness about how people with disabilities can gain control over their environment and live safely and more independently in their own homes using generic smart home technology. |
TechOWL | State, Assistive Technology, Topic | TechOWL (formerly PIAT) helps people with disabilities explore the tools and technology they need to be independent. TechOWL is Pennsylvania's Assistive Technology Act program. TechOWL has 9 regional centers across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. |
The Arc of Philadelphia | Advocacy, State | The Arc of Philadelphia’s mission is to advocate with and for all children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, to promote active citizenship, self-determination, and full inclusion. |
The Next Step Programs | Education, Transition | The Next Step Programs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. TNS provides a series of educational programs and skill development opportunities, which are a combination of workshops, webinars, and 1:1 support sessions, to educate individuals, families, educators, and employers about the transition and vocation process for individuals with disabilities. |
The Philadelphia Autism Project: Drexel University | Education | The A.J. Drexel The Autism Institute's mission is to understand and address the challenges of autism by discovering, developing, and sharing population-level and community-based public health science. |
Ticket to Work Program | Topic, Employment | helps Social Security beneficiaries go to work, get a good job that may lead to a career, and become financially independent, all while they keep their Medicare or Medicaid. |