INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER RESOURCES - PIRS

PLACER INDEPENDENT RESOURCE SERVICES (PIRS)


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  • 11768 Atwood Rd. #129
    Auburn, Placer
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  • Phone 1
    Main
    530-885-6100
  • Business Line
    530-885-6100

Placer Independent Resource Services (PIRS) serves Placer, El Dorado, and Alpine counties. Any person in the service area with a disability is eligible for free services.

PLEASE NOTE
~ PIRS does not provide any kind of financial assistance.
~ PIRS does not provide direct housing placement. PIRS can provide general 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.

Services include

  • Assistive Technology (AT) Resource Coordination
  • Peer Support
  • Personal Assistant Referral
  • Benefits Counseling
  • Transportation and Housing Resource Information and Advocacy
  • Independent Living Skills Training
  • Information and Referral
  • Individual and Systems Advocacy
  • Minor Home Modification
  • Transition to Community-based Living
  • Diversion from Institutionalization
  • Transition to Adulthood for Post-secondary School Youth withDisabilities
  • Technical Assistance on Disability Access
  • Community Education on Disability Rights
  • Community Outreach
  • Placer Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) Navigator –Options Counseling Program
  • Walkers (mobility aid equipment). Ask for Helene (530-885-6100 x28).
  • Older Adult Walking Club

Planned Power Outages (Public Safety Power Shutoffs/PSPS)

PIRS does not provide additional services for planned poweroutages. Other services for people with disabilities in Placer County prior to/during/after planned power outages: Qualified Placer County residents who receive utilities through PG&E (or Pioneer Community Energy, which uses PG&E infrastructure) and may experience Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS)events may receive services from FREED, a separate entity that serves Nevada, Sierra, Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa counties AND is able to assist Placer County prior to, during, and potentially after PSPS events. For more information visit FREED.


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