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October 2024
Disability Options Network Donates Motorized Scooter to Armstrong County Veterans
September 2024
Disability Options Network Hosted the Building Bridges Between Education and Medicine Conference
September 2024
DON ReClaim! Hosts Neshannock Trail and Croton Avenue Cleanup on World Cleanup Day!
September 2024
DON Services Thanks Holy Spirit Parish's "Friends of Catholic Education" for Donation
September 2024
DON Enterprises, Inc. and DON Services, Inc. Particpated in United Way of Lawrence County’s Day of Caring at the South Side Community Garden
September 2024
The Elm Street Team Particpated in United Way of Lawrence County’s Day of Caring at the East Side Grove Community Garden
September 2024
DON Services and the New Castle News Announce the Winners of the Much-Anticipated Vacation Raffle
August 2024
Disability Options Network Hosted the Building Bridges Summit: Advocacy, Self-Expression, Wellness, Relationships, Employment, and Assistive Communication
August 2024
The Caravan for Disability Freedom and Justice Visited Disability Options Network
August 2024
DON Services and Disability Options Network Attended the Great American Banana Split Celebration
August 2024
Disability Options Network hosted the DON Fishing Derby at McDanels Boat Launch
August 2024
Disability Options Network Hosted the Americans with Disabilities Act Celebration at Cascade Park
August 2024
Miss Pennsylvania 2024 and Ms. Wheelchair Pennsylvania 2024 to Appear at Disabilities Options Network’s Americans with Disabilities Act Celebration
August 2024
On Behalf of DON Services, Anita McKeever Sent a Letter to the Editor to Recognize Two Extraordinary Groups: the Resurrection Parish Team and the Catholic Heart Workcamp
August 2024
The Elm Street Community Hosted the 2024 National Night Out Block Party to Honor Local Law Enforcement and Promote Community-Police Relationships
August 2024
Disability Options Network Hosted the “Building Bridges, Empowering ALL Abilities Through Recreation and Relationships” Conference at PNC Park's Unique Abilities Day
August 2024
Disability Options Network Hosted the Americans with Disabilities Act Celebration at Hempfield Park
July 2024
Resurrection Parish Sent Workers to Six Projects for its 2024 Appalachia Youth Mission, Coordinated by DON Services
July 2024
Don Enterprises, Inc. Helps Reconnect New Castle, PA, and Shinshiro, Japan Through Cherry Blossom Trees
June 2024
Don Enterprises and DON Services Construction Donated Materials to Catholic Heart Work Camp
June 2024
Disability Options Network hosted the Annual DON Fishing Derby at the ADA-Accessible Fishing area in Moraine State Park, McDanels Boat Launch
May 2024
DON Services has Helped 31 People Transition from Nursing Homes Back into their Communities in this Year's First Quarter
May 2024
The Elm Street Community Hosted a Neighborhood Watch Meeting with Speakers that Included the New Castle Police Chief and State Representative Marla Brown's Chief of Staff
May 2024
DON Enterprises, Inc. Donated Funds from the Neighborhood Partnership Program (NPP) to the City of New Castle for Ongoing Blight Reduction
May 2024
DON Enterprises Inc. Finalized the Sale of the Fourteenth House Built in New Castle in Partnership with the Affordable Housing Program of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh
April 2024
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DON Enterprises Inc. Finalized the Sale of the Thirteenth House Built in New Castle in Partnership with the Affordable Housing Program of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh
April 2024
DON ReClaim! Partnered with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful and Tri-County CleanWays to Clean Up Neshannock Trail and N. Croton Ave with the Help of Volunteers
April 2024
Stop By DON Enterprises, Inc.’s Central Building to See the Cherry Blossom Trees
April 2024
DON Services, Inc. and Disability Options Network Open a New Office in Jeannette
March 2024
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast – DON Services: Building a Future with Hemp
November 2020
UPMC becomes latest target of disability-rights activist suing over alleged ADA lapses
March 2018
Bob Casey and Tom Ridge: Don’t Disempower Fellow Citizens
Americans with disabilities deserve a chance to work and live in their communities...
December 2017
Aging, Disabled Consumers May be Clueless About State’s New Long-Term Care Program
Libby Powers, a 29-year-old disability rights counselor born with spina bifida, understands the state’s pending Community HealthChoices program...
October 2017
Center for Independent Living Returns to Allegheny County
Disability Options Network, a 501c3 nonprofit organization serving Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and Mercer counties, has been awarded a grant...
September 2017
Proper Smoke Detector Disposal
There are two types of smoke detectors: ionization and photoelectric...
September 2017
Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act and How Businesses Can Get Involved
On July 22, 2014, the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act was signed...
April 2017
New Ideas In the Advocacy for Disabled Persons
New Mobility Magazine published an article February fourth by Laura Hershey, arguing that employment for people with disabilities should be at the top of the priority list for disability advocates...
October 2014
Restore Your Vision with Stem Cells
The North East England Stem Cell Institute, located in Newcastle, has developed a treatment in which stem cells taken from one eye can be used to repair the other...
October 2014
Eye Damage Caused By Tanning Beds
We have been warned for years about the harmful effects of ultra violet rays, given off naturally by our sun and produced artificially by tanning beds...
October 2014
LOCAL PA ADAPT ACTION – Robbins Continues to Use the Disabled Community as a Political Pawn
During a visit to Senator Robbins Harrisburg office in June, 2009, PA ADAPT activists were asked to leave his office and not return...
October 2014
LOCAL PA ADAPT ACTION – Ignore Them and They’ll Go Away
On August 4, 2009 the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted 195-3 to pass Senate Bill 850 to pay workers. As written, S.B. 850 makes deep cuts to key programs that would force more disabled people out of their homes and into nursing homes...
October 2014
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