Statement on COVID-19

Due to SARS CoV-2 pandemic, PCAA has chosen to remain closed to in-person meetings, groups, and services for the foreseeable future. We do not currently have a timeline of when we will resume these things. Our community, the Disabled community, is at particular risk of serious illness and death due to this virus. We are the people who are most impacted, as a community and as individuals, by the pandemic. The Disabled community is being put at risk. We refuse to take part in endangering our community. We care about all of you. We hope that you are as well as you can be, and safe. We miss seeing you. Know that this is not forever. Things will be different. We will see one another again.

Helpful Resources

Autistic activists at PCAA worked with a team of medical students to produce accessible guides to COVID-19.

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Healthcare Rationing Hotline
Disability Rights Pennsylvania (DRP) is operating a Health Care Rationing Hotline during the pandemic. Individuals with disabilities, or family members or caregivers of individuals with disabilities, who experience discrimination in health care rationing, who are denied effective communication at the hospital, or who are prohibited from bringing a needed family member or staff with them in the hospital should contact DRP at 800-692-7443, ext. 402.

Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies Hotline
The Partnership’s Disaster Hotline provides information, referrals, guidance, technical assistance and resources to people with disabilities, their families, allies, organizations assisting disaster impacted individuals with disabilities and others seeking assistance with immediate and urgent disaster related needs. The Disaster Hotline is always available for intake calls, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at (800) 626-4959 and info@disasterstrategies.org. 

 

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