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Guardianship in PA
Overview
These guides may provide useful general information to help you in advocating for yourself or someone else with a disability. These guides are not a substitute for individualized, fact-specific legal advice. These guides may also be helpful for providers of services to people with disabilities.
This website includes self-advocacy guides on the following topics:
- Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation
- Access to Public and Private Commercial Facilities
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Eligibility
- Assistive Technology
- Census 2020
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
- Education
- Employment
- Estate Planning/Substitute Decision-Making/Guardianship
- Healthcare
- Housing
- Incarceration
- Infants and Toddlers who are Newly Diagnosed with a Disability
- Intellectual Disabilities & Autism
- Medical Assistance (Medicaid)
- Mental Health
- Parking
- Representative Payee
- Service Animals
- Social Security/SSI
- Tickets to Events
- Transition to Adulthood
- Transportation
- Voting
- Work Incentives Planning and Assistance (WIPA)
This resource created by Disability Rights Pennsylvania