PIRS is a non-profit organization that promotes the independence of people with disabilities and seniors in Placer, El Dorado and Alpine Counties.
02/18/2026
Join our experienced digital accessibility experts as they lead you through the fundamentals of digital and website accessibility. In this training, you will learn basic rules that will apply to most forms of digital media.
You will also become familiar with useful accessibility tools. Master these fundamentals and you will already be 90% of the way there to achieving full accessibility for all!
Join Choose Work! for a free webinar, How Will Work Affect My Social Security Disability Benefits?, on Wednesday, February 25 from noon to 1:30 p.m. (PT). In this session, attendees will explore how employment can impact disability benefits, learn about the Ticket to Work program and other work incentives, and discover resources to support their career journey. Click the link below to register: https://choosework.ssa.gov/wise/.
02/18/2026
$2,500 Scholarship Now Available Through the April Moore Memorial Scholarship Program - Chapa-De | Indian Health - Auburn Grass Valley
02/14/2026
We will be closed to observe the President's Holiday on Monday February 16th, 2026.
01/30/2026
01/30/2026
Are you a person with disabilities that needs to make changes to your housing rules or to your home’s physical structures to make it more accessible? Please join us at this workshop to learn about your rights to do so.
Join us to learn about your right to ask for a “reasonable accommodation” or “reasonable modification” – adjustments to rules, policies, services, and even the physical layout of your home to make it more accessible for you. We will review best practices, discuss potential costs, and go over what to expect once you have made your requests.
Interpretation will be provided if requested at least 1 week before the event date.
When: Tuesday, February 10th at 1pm PT
Learn more and register at the link: https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/.../reasonable...
Image Description: Top image of a man in a wheelchair next to a person standing, they're happily interacting. What background with navy blue text. Header: Webinar. DRC blue/green logo to the left. Text: Reasonable Accommodations in Housing Workshop. When: February 10th, 2026 at 1:00PM
Are you a person with disabilities that needs to make changes to your housing rules or to your home’s physical structures to make it more accessible? Please join us at this workshop to learn about your rights to do so.
Join us to learn about your right to ask for a “reasonable accommodation” or “reasonable modification” – adjustments to rules, policies, services, and even the physical layout of your home to make it more accessible for you. We will review best practices, discuss potential costs, and go over what to expect once you have made your requests.
Interpretation will be provided if requested at least 1 week before the event date.
Image Description: Top image of a man in a wheelchair next to a person standing, they're happily interacting. What background with navy blue text. Header: Webinar. DRC blue/green logo to the left. Text: Reasonable Accommodations in Housing Workshop. When: February 10th, 2026 at 1:00PM
01/30/2026
Call Auburn Senior Center, 530-823-8172 to reserve your seat!
01/30/2026
01/30/2026
Register now for our 2026 virtual conference Beyond Compliance: Equity, Access, and the ADA! Join us on March 10 and 11 on Zoom to learn from experts on a wide range of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) related topics.
Join professionals from across the country to learn, share, and strengthen access.
MINDFUL EATING! Definitely something I need in the new year!
01/02/2026
Seniors First provided 69,233 hot and frozen meals, and 6,965 pounds of groceries (the equivalent of an additional 8,343 meals) to local seniors this last year.
Raise your hand if you made a donation that contributed to these amazing numbers!
01/02/2026
From our staff at PIRS, We would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!
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During 1993 and 1994, a small group of dedicated people with disabilities joined together to establish Placer Independent Resource Services (PIRS). Their goal was to assist people with disabilities in Placer, El Dorado and Alpine Counties of California. On a volunteer basis, the founders provided peer support counseling with information and referral services from the dining room of one founder’s home. Joined by family members and other volunteers, they reached out to the community about all the services they planned to offer and searched for funding.
In 1994, with help from a retired Placer County adminstrator, they wrote their first grant application to the State Department of Rehabilitation (DOR). They were very surprised when the grant was awarded to them. With those funds, they opened the office in Auburn in March 1995 and hired two employees. PIRS is still located in that same office, although it has expanded over the years. The staff now has grown to ten and we just opened a branch office in Placerville to serve that rural area of the Sierra Foothills better.
Centers for Independent Living are regulated by the Federal Rehabiltiation Act and the State Welfare and Institutions Code. As a resource and information center for people with disabilities, PIRS actively promotes the philosophy of independent living by teaching self-advocacy; supporting control by the individual in all life decisions, known as "consumer control;" and having over 51% of the staff and board members to be people with disabilities. They are effective role models who have experienced the various barriers to independent living. Our services include: information and referral; independent living skills training; peer support; individual and systems advocacy; personal assistants referral; assistive technology resource coordination, minor home modifications, and resource information on housing and transportation. PIRS also provides education and technical assistance on access and disability rights for the community and especially for businesses.
Placer Independent Resource Services (PIRS), a non-residential Independent Living Center (ILC), is the state and federal-designated ILC serving Placer, El Dorado and Alpine Counties in the Sierra Mountains and Foothills of California.
