CARE Chest provides free medical equipment and diabetic supplies for those who qualify.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.carechest.org

Apria provides home medical equipment and supplies, including wheelchairs. Specializes in home oxygen equipment, respiratory equipment such as CPAP equipment and supplies as well as nebulizers. Apria Healthcare also provides home enteral feeding and wound pump supplies.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.apria.com/

Sierra Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired provides services to people who are blind or visually impaired, including: peer and professional counseling, escorted transportation to medical and agency functions, educational classes, and skills training.

Web pages

• Home - http://www.sierraservices.org/

FREED provides information and resources to help seniors and people with disabilities get the tools and devices they need to support their daily living.

• Assistive Technology - Provides lightly used devices from community donations. Inventory is always changing but may include bathing aids, toileting aids, and mobility devices such as walkers. There is a minimum 2-week turnaround time. To request equipment, call FREED to let them know what you need and they can start the application process. No same-day or walk-in service due to the multi-week wait time.
• Device Lending and Demonstration Center (DLDC) - Allows individuals, family members, businesses, organizations, and schools to borrow mobility, vision, and hearing aides as well as adaptive technology devises for limited periods at no cost.
• Voice Options
• Digital Divide - Chromebooks
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://freed.org/
• Assistive Technology (AT) Information - https://freed.org/services/assistive-technology/information/
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Bill's Wheels provides used and refurbished motorized scooters, wheelchairs, or walkers to people who cannot afford to rent or purchase mobility items.

Web pages

• Home - https://files.ecatholic.com/24976/documents/2023/1/BillsWheelsreva-2.pdf?t=1673904315000

The California Department of Rehabilitation offers Vocational Rehabilitation services for Californians with disabilities and Student Services for students with disabilities.

You are eligible for DOR Vocational Rehabilitation services if you:

• have a disability and want to work
• are having trouble getting or keeping a job because of your disability
• need services such as job placement, training, and/or other job preparation to help you get or keep a job, or advance in employment

To get DOR Student Services:

• You must be a student (you need to be enrolled in school, but it's okay if you're on break or if school hasn't started yet).
• You're between the ages of 16 and 21 (including 16 and 21).
• At least one of these options is true:
  • You have a 504 Plan, or you’re eligible for one if you want one.
  • You have an IEP.
  • You have a disability.
  • Others think you have a disability.

DOR programs include:

• Assistive Technology
• Independent Living
• Services for people who are blind
• Servi…

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Gold Country Hearing offers hearing evaluations, hearing aids, pediatric and geriatric diagnostic audiology, digital hearing, wax removal, and hearing aid cleanings.

Web pages

• Home - http://www.goldcountryhearing.com/

Cancer Aid Thrift Shop provides financial assistance to cancer patients who are residents of Nevada County. Help may include:

• travel reimbursement to out-of-county treatment centers for cancer patients
• reimbursement for cancer related prescriptions, wigs, and supplies
• co-payment reimbursement for chemo & radiation, X-rays, and scans
• the lending of durable medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, commodes etc.

Cancer Aid may reimburse up to several thousand dollars total per patient.

Will accept donations of durable medical equipment, and monetary donations are always welcome.

Cancer patients must be Nevada County residents and be registered with Cancer Aid. Client requests and submits registration paperwork. Paperwork must be signed by their physician, and returned to the case manager at Cancer Aid.

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 Educ…

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ClearCaptions provides near real-time display of a caller’s words during phone conversations so people with hearing disabilities can both see and hear what callers are saying.

Similar to captioned television, ClearCaptions allows people to see the words callers say on a screen using a home phone or mobile device app.

There is no cost to qualified individuals. Sign up here. Requires high speed internet.

Web pages

• Home - https://clearcaptions.com/
• Sign Up - https://clearcaptions.com/sign-me-up/