Disability Options Network

12/30/2025

Reflecting on an Incredible Year at Disability Options Network

As 2025 comes to a close, we celebrate the achievements of Disability Options Network (DON) and the amazing individuals we serve. This year, we saw people gain confidence, find their voices, and take steps toward independence.

As a Center for Independent Living, our mission remains clear: advocating, empowering, and creating opportunities for people with disabilities.

Thank you to our staff, partners, families, and self-advocates for helping us make a real difference. Together, we look forward to another year of inclusion, empowerment, and possibility!

12/20/2025

12/17/2025

DON employees came together to purchase winter essentials to help keep individuals in need warm this season. 💙
Thank you to our DON team, your generosity and effort are helping brighten someone’s holiday season.

Because of your donations, we were able to purchase enough supplies to assemble 100 winter care bags.

Each bag includes:
🧣 Drawstring bag
🧢 Beanie
🧤 Gloves
🧦 Socks
🧣 Scarf
🎧 Earmuffs
🛟 Emergency blanket
🔥 6 packs of hand warmers

Thank you to everyone who donated and helped make this possible. Together, we’re making a difference, one warm bag at a time. ❄️💙

12/16/2025

9 Followers, 15 Following, 14 Likes - Watch awesome short videos created by DON Services, Inc.

12/16/2025

🔔 Realtor Ring Day 2025

A DON employee (Anita) was spotted ringing the bells with Sondra Keith of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services!

12/16/2025

📢 Public Input Requested

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission is seeking public comments on Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) and access to public accommodations. If you’re impacted, your voice matters.
🗓 Comments open through December 31, 2025.

12/12/2025

On behalf of Temple University’s Institute on Disabilities, we’re sharing this Emergency Preparedness Survey. Your input helps strengthen inclusive emergency planning across our communities.

12/10/2025

Disability Options Network is excited to share a new research study from the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology.

They are seeking participants for a 12-month study evaluating an innovative under-the-bed weight scale system for wheelchair users called the Fast In-Bed Tracking System (FIT). This system allows individuals to monitor their weight through an app—no transfers needed.

Participants will also take part in the GLB-AI nutrition and exercise program to support weight management and overall health. Compensation is provided.

Interested or know someone who might be?

Check out the details below and see the attached flyer to learn more!

Thank you to Dr. Jonathan Pearlman and his team for continuing to support the health and wellness of individuals with disabilities.

12/09/2025

With deep sadness, we share the news of Paul O’Hanlon’s passing on November 30.

Our community has lost an extraordinary advocate, teacher, and friend whose compassion and courage changed the lives of so many. Paul devoted his life to breaking down barriers in transit, expanding voting rights, and fighting for true equality for people with disabilities. His advocacy wasn’t just powerful, it was personal, steady, and filled with heart.

At Disability Options Network, we reflect with gratitude on the tremendous impact Paul made throughout our region. His work and his unwavering commitment to justice have long inspired our mission. Paul believed deeply in the dignity and worth of every person, and his determination to create a more accessible, inclusive world strengthened the broader disability rights movement in ways that will endure for generations.

Paul had a remarkable ability to lift others up, to make people feel seen, valued, and heard. That is the part of him we will hold closest to our hearts.

Though we have lost his physical presence, we have not lost the legacy he built with such grace, determination, and love. It now falls to all of us, friends, advocates, and community members, to ensure that his work continues.

Let us honor Paul by standing a little taller, speaking a little louder, and embracing one another a little more fully.
Let us carry forward the mission he lived every day.

Paul, thank you for the hope you brought, the barriers you broke, and the lives you touched. You will remain forever in our hearts, and your legacy will continue to shine through every act of advocacy that follows.

12/04/2025

11/25/2025

This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to join us in uplifting the voices and lives of people with disabilities across our communities.

Your support, no matter the size, helps create groups that thrive long after the funding ends, friendships that last, and confidence that carry into every part of life.

Your heart is the difference.

Give today and help us continue building a community where inclusion isn’t just a vision, it’s a lived reality.

💙 Every contribution makes a difference, join us in making a lasting impact.

Donate here: https://www.pledge.to/giving-tuesday-7086
or text DON to 707070 or scan the QR code below!

11/25/2025

Giving Tuesday is about more than generosity, it’s about creating the world we want to live in.

At Disability Options Network, we work every day to ensure people with disabilities have equal access, real choices, meaningful connections, and opportunities to lead.

Your Giving Tuesday support helps us continue:
• Building strong peer networks
• Creating inclusive community events
• Advancing self-advocacy
• Supporting families
• Expanding accessibility

Together, we can build a tomorrow where everyone belongs.
Help us shape that tomorrow, give today and make a lasting impact.

💙 Every contribution makes a difference, join us in making a lasting impact.

Donate here: https://www.pledge.to/giving-tuesday-7086
or text DON to 707070 or scan the QR code below!