Pittsburgh Center for Disability Justice

05/21/2026

Have you ever wanted to get more involved with us? Well, good news! We are accepting volunteers! We'd love for you to join us! There are many roles, and some details below! Email us at info@autisticpgh.org to get connected! Share widely!

Most of the roles we have can be done remotely! The time commitment is generally low, one to five hours per month (though there may be more for you id you would like!). Some of the things we particularly need are listed below, but our needs are not limited to these! Please email if you are interested, even if you do not have these skills!

Some current areas of need :

- Solid proficiency with HTML, and the ability to make a few email templates for us using it. This is a one time task, but is an important need.

- Social media and marketing skills, and eagerness to manage social media accounts. Creating content, sharing things, and so on. This role would be ongoing, and mean working in a team with other volunteers.

- Graphic design and web design. Neither are intensive needs. We need things like event fliers, and for events to be added to our website as they occur. This comes up two to three times per month.

- Tabling duty! In person. This one is very people forward, and requires folks who are comfortable with engaging strangers in chit-chat, and informing people confidently about our services.

- Joining our Care Closet team. This could mean a lot of things. Holding items in your home and keeping an inventory of them, and coordinating with others to pick them up. Delivering items. Cooking meals and freezing them. These roles are highly individual, and the commitment can be as little as an hour per month, or more if you'd like!

- Admin tasks + the ability to work largely independently without much oversight. Things like creating a form with minimal direction, making a spread sheet, updating information, making phone calls. This requires good judgement, independent problem solving skills, and enough experience to understand the needs of a small non-profit. These tasks are few in number, and come up a few times per year.

There are other roles and needs as well! These are just the most pressing. We can sign off on volunteer hours for whatever you may need them for!

Again email us at info@autisticpgh.org to get connected! Please share widely!

05/20/2026

Join us on May 27th at 6:30 pm for a virtual skill share! Managing money while living in poverty, presented in collaboration with our friends from the Financial Empowerment Center! Register below!

Disability is the largest social predictor of poverty, and disabled folks live in poverty at three times the rates of non-disabled people. Twenty-five percent (or more!) of disabled people in our country live below the federal poverty line, and fifteen percent of us live in deep poverty. All of us l...

05/14/2026

Looking for volunteer opportunities? Good news! We're accepting volunteers! Email us at info@autisticpgh.org to connect! We are excited to hear from you!

Mostly remote, with some limited in person opportunities. We are in particular looking for folks with the skills below, but we are also interested in hearing from you if you have other unlisted skills! :

- Basic graphic design, HTML, and web design skills + the ability to work independently without oversight (with direction).

- Social media skills, experience managing social media accounts, creation of content + the ability to work independently without much oversight with some direction.

- Lots of experience with Zoom for business or other similar platforms, ability to attend events, and manage some of the technical aspects of virtual events while staff are presenting + good attention to detail, and the ability to navigate group social dynamics gracefully (this would mean doing things like managing spotlights, moving people to break out rooms, managing questions, sharing slides, and similar tasks).

- Light research, organization of information, great attention to detail + the ability to work independently with minimal direction.

- Group facilitation in social settings on a virtual platform or group facilitation in social settings in person, strong boundary enforcement, high patience + ability to pass a background check.

- Admin things such as ability to make phone calls, create google docs, forms, sheets, and other similar tasks + great attention to detail, ability to meet deadlines, keep good notes, and work independently with direction.

- Terrific public facing service skills, experience tabling for non-profit organizations or eagerness to learn, good at navigating social settings + ability to attend in person events in large noisy environments while attending to social demands gracefully (ie, tabling duty!).

- Ability to drive, have a personal vehicle + time and eagerness to drop items off for participants in our Care Closet program.

Join the only organization in our region in which all decision makers are themselves disabled adults! We are a welcoming, warm team. The commitment is low in terms of hours, and we are happy to sign off on any volunteer hours you may need (including for the new SNAP and MA work requirements).

The work we do is vital, critical, and fulfilling! We'd love to have you join us!

05/12/2026

Join us for a virtual Skill Share! Managing Money When There Is No Money! Register here : https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/X7IQrnrnRqig2KdJ5BQwtg #/registration

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How to Save Money When There's No Money to Save

Join PCDJ and the Financial Empowerment Center for a free virtual workshop, 5/27 at 6:30 p.m. EST. Amber will introduce financial tools for managing money while living in poverty. This event will include captions & ASL.

Amber Book has over 20 years of experience working with people from all walks of life from a wide variety of non-profit organizations.

The flyer includes the Pittsburgh Center for Disability Justice logo, as well as a photo of Amber. She has short hair and wears a wrap sweater and an array of jewelry, while smiling confidently.]

05/11/2026

Join us for a virtual Skill Share on May 27th at 6:30pm! We'll be learning and talking about managing money while living in poverty. We welcome a community partner, the Financial Empowerment Center, to talk with us about this! See the registration link below for access info and other details!

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/X7IQrnrnRqig2KdJ5BQwtg

See you there!

Disability is the largest social predictor of poverty, and disabled folks live in poverty at three times the rates of non-disabled people. Twenty-five percent (or more!) of disabled people in our country live below the federal poverty line, and fifteen percent of us live in deep poverty. All of us l...

05/05/2026

Friends! We are happy to announce that we are accepting volunteers!

Interested in volunteering with us? Have the skills listed below? Email info@autisticpgh.org!

We are particularly in need of folks who can :

- Using HTML, with some direction, independentaly create a few email templates for our newsletter. (one person needed)

- With direction and no oversight, update our website when there are minor changes, ongoing (such as events, photos, staff changes). (one person needed)

- Working independantly with instruction, create a few google forms. (one person needed)

- Perform some limited administrative tasks independantly, without much oversight. These tasks include light research, phone calls, note taking, and project specific tasks. (one to five people needed)

- With limited oversight, manage social media accounts and content, create engaging content, update accounts with events, and generally engage with our social media accounts. (three to five people needed)

- In collaboration with our staff and community previous to events, indepenedantly lead virtual social activities for disabled adults. These generally last for two hours, and are held via zoom. For this role, we need folks who have experience in leadership for similar events! (three to five people needed)

All volunteer activities described above can be performed remotely!

Thanks all! Please do share this within all of your networks!

03/23/2026

Join us tonight! Monday 3/23 at 5:30pm! PLEASE WEAR A MASK! Come see Opal and Daeja, and watch this delightful and poignant film!

Free and open to the public! Registration info below!

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03/16/2026

Hey folks! Join our Executive Director Opal, and our Director of Advocacy Daeja, for this in person event! MASKING ENCOURAGED! We would hope anyone from our community joining us would make sure to wear a mask!

FREE reception, film screening, and discussion panel! March 23rd, Point Park University. See the flier for registration info!

We're so excited to see you in person!

[Image description: Near the top in a neon pink strip is a black Just Films logo with information about the screening to the right of it. The film's title, "Patrice: The Movie," is above smaller text that indicates the date, time, and location, as listed in the caption. All sponsors are listed above this strip and sponsors with social media are tagged in the end of caption. The majority of the image is pastel pink with three circular photos of the panelists listed in the caption. Register now at Just Films PGH dot org.]

03/10/2026

Come to this FREE film screening, and hear our Executive Director speak afterwards! The space is ADA accessible, MASKING ENCOURAGED, and there are captions.

March 23rd, 5:30pm, Point State Park University! Join us!

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[IMAGE : Near the top in a neon pink strip is a black Just Films logo with information about the screening to the right of it. The film's title, "Patrice: The Movie," is above smaller text that indicates the date, time, and location, as listed in the caption. All sponsors are listed above this strip and sponsors with social media are tagged in the end of caption. The majority of the image is pastel pink with three circular photos of the panelists listed in the caption. Register now at Just Films PGH dot org.]

Join Just Films Monday, March 23 at Point Park University's GRW Theater (414 Wood St) for a screening of "Patrice: The Movie." The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. with free refreshments, and the film starts at 6:00 p.m. followed by a panel discussion. 🎬

March's screening is a "documentary rom-com" about the next phase of marriage equality: disability. Patrice has finally found the love of her life, Garry, who is also disabled. They want nothing more than to get married, but if they do – or even if they just move in together – the government benefits they need to survive would be cut. Despite the scrutiny they’re under, they decide to plan a commitment ceremony that could risk their entire future. 💍

Panelists:
◼️ Teaira Collins, Founder, Lion of Judah Enterprises & Board Member and President of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations
◼️ Opal, Executive Director, Pittsburgh Center for Disability Justice
Moderator:
◼️ Camila Rivera-Tinsley, Chief Executive Officer, The Women and Girls Foundation

Free and open to the public, register now at justfilmspgh.org or the link in bio! 🔗 Masking is recommended, but not required for this event. Please refer to the comments for an image description.

Other partners include:
Chatham University Arts, Design & Communication
Women's Institute
Point Park University Community Engagement
Point Park Film and Animation
Women's Law Project

03/02/2026

Thank you all for joining us in vigil yesterday. We had so many viewers, and so much great feedback! We appreciate your support.

If you missed the live program, you can still watch the video on our website, or YouTube! The website it linked below.

1st, 2026 – 7 PM ESTYouTube ∞ Facebook Over 700 disabled people have been murdered by their caregivers in the past 5 years. We must stand together to condemn these acts and change the way…

11/25/2025

Giving Tuesday is fast approaching. We hope that you will honor us with your support this year.

Your donations allow us to provide a vast array of services and supports at no cost to our disabled community in the SWPA region.

What kinds of supports and services? Peer support, therapeutic groups, resource coordination, case management, social events, workshops, skill shares, mutual aid facilitation, community connections, in the field support for all sorts of things from attending medical appointments to going shoe shopping to delivering meals, body doubling, volunteer coordination for direct support of disabled adults, advocacy in legislative spaces, direct advocacy, and so much more.

We are a gap-filling organization. If our community needs something, we figure out how to do it! Out work is critical, vital, and necessary. Your donations go such a long way with us!