Placer Independent Resource Services (PIRS) provides services that help people with disabilities live independently and make informed decisions about their lives. We focus on advocacy, education, and access to resources within the community. All services are free and available to any person with a disability.
Advocacy and Disability Rights
We work with individuals to better understand their rights and responsibilities. This includes guidance on disability laws, assistance with resolving issues, and community advocacy to improve accessibility and reduce barriers.
Independent Living Skills Training
We provide information and guidance on skills that contribute to independent living, such as using public transportation, managing finances, and developing self-advocacy strategies.
Information and Referrals
Provides a wide array of information and referrals about resources and services available for people with disabilities.
Peer Support
We facilitate opportunities for individuals to connect with others who share similar experiences, exchange ideas, and build confidence in navigating disability-related challenges.
Personal Assistant Referrals
Maintains an updated registry by recruiting qualified individuals to be employed by individuals and provide personal assistance or domestic services. Educates consumers about employer/employee responsibilities and management strategies, and provides referrals to screened applicants on the registry.
Assistive Technology
Provides information about public benefits; can assist with applications and address basic benefits issues, or provide referrals.
Home Accessibility Modifications
Installs adaptive equipment to make the home safer and improve access, such as grab bars, threshold ramps, flashing door bells, CO/smoke detectors, etc. No remodeling or major construction.
Benefits Counseling
Provides information about public benefits; can assist with applications and address basic benefits issues, or provide referrals.
Housing Information & Advocacy
Provides information about housing resources and can assist with applications; advises about search strategies and tenant/landlord rights and responsibilities. No referral or placement services provided.
Transition Services
Community-Based Living:
Assists with planning, and provides support services and resource information to facilitate moving out of an institutional setting to a community-based home;
Diversion:
Provides planning, assistance and resource information to prevent being moved from a community-based home into an institutional setting;
Youth:
Provides information and services to assist out-of-school (post-secondary) transition age youth, 14 – 24, to transition to adult life.
PIRS Consumer Appeal Process
For Agency on Aging\Area 4 funded programs only: You also may send a written statement to AAA\4 and include the results of the service provider’s review if dissatisfied with the results of our agency’s review.
Get Started
If you are looking for information, advocacy, or services related to independent living, PIRS is here to help you explore your options and take the next steps.