Community Resources
General
Financial Aid Services
Achieva: Advocating for, empowering and supporting people with disabilities and their families throughout their lives by offering benefits solutions, trusts, grants, home adaptions, transportation assistance, etc.
Website: www.achieva.info/
HelpHopeLive: Working with Help Hope Live’s expert injury financial assistance Client Services Coordinators, families affected by an extraordinary injury can build a network of support that can have a significant impact on their ability to pay medical bills and access treatments.
Other
Case Specific Nutrition : Providing affordable, person-centered nutrition education and chronic disease prevention programs that incorporate behavioral change and motivation interviewing to enable people from all backgrounds to improve their heal and wellbeing.
Website: www.casespecificnutrition.com
CLASS: Community Living and Supportive Services: To support people with disabilities to explore options, participate in the community and strive towards equality.
Website: www.classcommunity.org
Spinal Cord Injury
Financial Aid Services
Ryan Shazier Fund for Spinal Rehabilitation : To give those with spinal cord injuries and their caregivers the support, resources, and funding they need to live independent and meaningful lives.
Website : www.ryanshazierfund.org
Rise Again: Supporting individuals with spinal cord injury or illness to believe and reach goals beyond expectations.
Website: www.RiseAgainSCI.org
Project 34: assists with the purchasing of medical equipment and assistive devices that may not be otherwise accessible to a patient, as well as provides grants to individuals to afford physical therapy for optimal function. We want to ease the stress that accompanies the financial burden of these necessary materials, so that the patient and their families can focus on living a fulfilling life.
Website: https://projectthirtyfour.com
Talia Ferro Foundation: The foundation provides emotional, financial and educational support to individuals who suffer catastrophic spinal cord injuries and their families in New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Delaware. The foundation also provides educational and financial support related to the research, prevention and care of such injuries.
Website:https://taliaferrofoundation.org
Adaptive Sports and Fitness
NextStep Pittsburgh: An affordable, state of the art, community based paralysis recovery and fitness center offering standardized activity-based therapy program and interventions to prove the best chance for recovery, independence and health.
Website: www.nextstepfitness.org
3D Sports RX PGH: Adaptive sports for spinally injured aduts at or aboe the age of 15
Dan McCoy Fitness: Paralympic Gold Metalist, Dan McCoy works to strengthen individuals, regardless of ability, in their physical and mental confidence to see their abilities as a blessing and live their lives to their maximum potential.
Website: www.danmccoyfitness.com
HOPE Network: Providing adapted sports, recreation and wellness activites for children and adutls living with a physical disability, and their families, to improve their health and lifestyle.
Website: https://hopenetwork.org
Pittsburgh Steelwheelers: Offers a variety of sports programs, such as Wheelchair Rugby, Wheelchair Basketball and Hand-cycling.
Website: www.steelwheelers.com
Three Rivers Adaptive Sports (TRAS): Promoting quality of life, education and to provie quality year-round sports and recreation opportunities for people with disabilities and their families and friends.
Website: www.traspa.org
Home Adaptations
Laurel Medical Solutions: Passionate about People. To improve the mobility lives of our patietns providing hombility and home modification services.
Website: www.laurelmedsolutions.com
Omicelo: Assesses mobility and accessibility across home environments and provides in home solutions to ensure mobility, safety and independence
Website: https://omicelo.com
Other
Rebuild Better Together: To help those with spinal cord injuries who have lost their spouse or family support by improving their quality of life.
Website: www.rebuildbettertogether.org
United Spinal Associated of Pittsburgh: Seeking to improve the quality of life of individuals with spinal cord injuries by providing peer support, community education and connections to resources, and by advocting for disability rights.
UPMC Center for Assistive Technology: Offering adaptive Driving, Assistive listening Services, Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices , Rehabilitation Engineeringering and Technology and Wheeled Mobility and Seating Services
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