Advocacy Library

 

 

The PA Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing is your first stop on the path to learn about services, technology, and information related to hearing loss, sign language interpreters, or laws that require equal access for people who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard of hearing

 

Information on Pensylvania's Food Pantry, Farmer's Market, Senior Food Box, SNAP, and Summer Meals programs.
 

• Food banks and food pantries can be found using this map.
• The WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Programs which provide vouchers to be spent at participating farmers markets in the commonwealth.
• The Pennsylvania Senior Food Box Program provides eligible seniors with a monthly box of food to supplement regular groceries, the box can be delivered by DoorDash in select areas.
• The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, provides benefits to purchase food at grocery stores and supermarkets.
• Congregate and Home-Delivered meals are nutritious meals available to Pennsylvanians 60 years of age or older and are delivered directly to eligible individuals’ homes, more information on these meals is available through County Area Agencies on Aging.
• The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides vouchers to be redeemed at grocery stores for specific food items.
• The Summer Meals Program provides nutritious meals to children when school is not in session.

 

Guiding a Discussion about the Office of Developmental's (ODP’s) Incident Management Process.

Laundry Love washes the clothes and bedding of low/no income families and person(s) across the US. They brighten the lives of thousands of people through love, dignity, and detergent by partnering with diverse groups and laundromats nationwide.

Discover tools for planning, problem-solving, and leading a life of personal significance! Learn more about person-centered planning using the LifeCourse Framework with Achieva or begin by reviewing the resources below.

Eligibility, contact information, and resources for support and service for people with disabilities that need help in day to day activities.

A representative payee is a person or an organization that receives the Social Security or SSI benefits for anyone who can’t manage or direct the management of their benefits. A payee’s main duties are to use the benefits to pay for the current and future needs of the beneficiary, and properly save any benefits not needed to meet current needs. A payee must also keep records of expenses.

A Guide For Representative Payees

 

 

The Employment Innovation Area Workgroup within the Community of Practice (CoP) for Supporting Families in PA has developed statewide resource guides containing integrated transportation support options. 

Share them with people and their families when someone says that they would like to work and are having trouble finding reliable transportation to and from work (and other places they frequent in their communities).  

Review this guide with people and their families and walk them through the columns. These guides are intended to help users exercise their creativity and feel more encouraged about the transportation resources available in Pennsylvania. 

Employment coalitions and regional collaboratives may use this guide as a starting-point to create a more local-level resource guide for their particular counties.

Use this guide to explore what transportation options work best for you and to advocate for what you feel will best meet your needs. This guide is a great way to exercise self-determination and ownership over your life insofar as how you get to work and other places that you want and need to go to in your local communities.

View the The Integrated Transportation Resource Guide

Learn more about your right to vote in Pennsylvania, how to vote and accessible voting.