https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/news daily 0.75 2020-05-06 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/news/get-out-there-27c8p monthly 0.5 2020-02-20 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/news/why-deserts-matter-too-9myfg monthly 0.5 2019-08-21 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/news/new-hope-in-old-appalachia-f42xz monthly 0.5 2019-08-21 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2020-05-06 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592601746645-ZMJ3JBKE5K77W99A0RCP/yellowbg2.png Contact Us (971) 209-2954 Portland, Oregon Instagram: @pdx_disabled_support Click HERE to email. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592601733454-BRBO5DBUUXWNIGND7YE8/tealbg.png Contact Us - Contact Us https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/about-old daily 0.75 2020-05-06 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/offer-support daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/about daily 0.75 2020-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592098278491-FWG73251F27783TEVP0V/whitesquare.png About - About Us We are a group of mostly white, disabled, trans and queer organizers, creating a network of caregivers for self-identified disabled people. Accessing care or medical needs often places black and brown people into systems of institutionalized racism and increased police interactions. All of this has intensified during the Corona Virus crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592098605912-2U5P789MRU1A9GXT50D1/purple+square.png About - We realize background checks are a form of gatekeeping and are anti-black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592601684244-B284JFKLLVJRV89GITB5/tealbg.png About - The results of a background check By the prison industrial complex does not legitimize if someone would make a good care worker or represent a true assessment of someone’s background. We have very limited funds and will be prioritizing paying previously incarcerated care workers upon request. With how difficult retention of care workers is and the fact that many care workers aren’t working right now, this will have dire and deadly impacts on the disabled community, and more impacting to black and brown disabled people. Across the board, disabled people struggle to find care workers who are committed to staying on long term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592601669661-YUDQK25OJPNVDH1N1NV2/pinkbg.png About - Now with the Coronavirus Our caretaking needs are nearly totally neglected. There is a shortage of care workers. More abled people are beginning to experience what many have been living all this time within a broken system. Because of their privileges and because healthy people will be prioritized under the virus protocol, we are being pushed further to the margins. Additionally, in just one month of the corona virus spreading we have seen how rampant institutionalized racism has led to horrific but unsurprising outcomes. Racist treatment in hospitals and jails which is deadly, has repeated those same patterns of oppression. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/home daily 0.75 2020-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1589755085376-PQPBBFZOBMZYOR3HXKHN/image-asset.jpeg Home (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1589935102953-VAI62T75ZRTQFE3XQVIH/image-asset.jpeg Home (Copy) - Hubs are support centers —delivery, supply, wellness, emotional and others— that are based on the personalized care plans of the disabled people of each pod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1589935155584-CMDW32BABMQ6FFUL7HCM/image-asset.jpeg Home (Copy) - A community care pod is a small collaborative group of disabled people, advocates, and care workers based on geographical location, cultural background or previous relationships. Each pod self-organizes and co-creates a space that works best for them to balance accountability, accessibility needs, language, and taking care of themselves. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/resources-1 daily 0.75 2020-05-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1590609773601-GZZHWMWG3FD0WUCDSY51/image-asset.jpeg Resources (Copy) - Covid-19 Blurb about the ongoing health crisis and what that may mean for you, along with information regarding the resources we’ve collected for you on this topic. Click below to read more: https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/resources-3 daily 0.75 2020-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1590609773601-GZZHWMWG3FD0WUCDSY51/image-asset.jpeg Resources (Copy) - Covid-19 Blurb about the ongoing health crisis and what that may mean for you, along with information regarding the resources we’ve collected for you on this topic. 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Link Two Blurb about link two Link Three Blurb about link three. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/hubs-pods-about daily 0.75 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596670137281-KFJP9BHW4GR6S44WJBHH/mostlyopaquewhite.png What Are Hubs & Pods? - What Are Pods & Hubs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596513397777-W33L0KN0SXI78TZGRHKV/hubimage8.png What Are Hubs & Pods? - There are two kinds of Hubs: Independent Hubs, which provide resources on an as-needed basis for the pods and general program, and Interconnected Hubs, where care workers directly work within each community care pod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596401387406-E4RC5U9DKA1D3F0LWLG4/hubimage1.png What Are Hubs & Pods? - What is a Hub? Hubs are groups focused on responding to one aspect of care work, like facilitating access, obtaining supplies, cooking food, etc. Each hub is sustained through a worker supportive system. Each care worker is a member of a specific hub and also a member of one community care pod. Care workers within hubs can choose to have various degrees of support for themselves Cross-Training between hubs is encouraged for people who wish to do multiple types of care work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596401355373-W5L5G1LM3CE1P98ZR3PQ/hubimage3.png What Are Hubs & Pods? - What is a Pod? A community care pod is a collaborative group of disabled people, advocates, and care workers who are connected to supporting hubs Each pod self organizes and co-creates a space that works best for them to balance being accountable to the work, accessibility needs, language, and care. Care workers can shadow and be mentored in other pods to have an idea of what other pods are doing. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/request-support daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/resources daily 0.75 2020-06-19 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/color-test-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-07 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/color-test-2 daily 0.75 2020-06-07 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/color-test-4 daily 0.75 2020-06-07 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/home-old daily 0.75 2020-06-03 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/home-pds-old daily 0.75 2020-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592618572926-JD73Q7LXZTX6LRHOAWF0/yellowbg2.png Home - PDX Disabled Support ⬇︎⬇︎⬇︎ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592885094189-9K1LF5XDSHHMMUXL5YEQ/hubbg2.png Home - What is a Pod? A community care pod is a small collaborative group of disabled people, advocates, and care workers based on geographical location, cultural background or previous relationships. Each pod self-organizes and co-creates a space that works best for them to balance accountability, accessibility needs, language, and taking care of themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592885033296-DVAGMXC6JD9ARPDA215R/hubbg1.png Home - What is a Hub? Hubs are support centers —delivery, supply, wellness, emotional and others— that are based on the personalized care plans of the disabled people of each pod. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592095445683-2RLVIWFQHZDXK20IN5JT/mostlyopaquewhite.png About (Copy) - ABOUT US. PDX DISABLED SUPPORT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592094815766-4WU37SOXS3IHPQERKPCV/image-asset.jpeg About (Copy) - We Are A group of mostly white, disabled, trans and queer organizers, creating a network of caregivers for self-identified disabled people. Accessing care or medical needs often places black and brown people into systems of institutionalized racism and increased police interactions. All of this has intensified during the Corona Virus crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592601836395-OPQ3PX5RS0JOGDVTKVD9/tealbg.png About (Copy) - We realize background checks are a form of gatekeeping and are anti-black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592097608340-NOYC5N4P4CMZQM4103HR/image-asset.jpeg About (Copy) - Now with the Coronavirus Our caretaking needs are nearly totally neglected. There is a shortage of care workers. More abled people are beginning to experience what many have been living all this time within a broken system. Because of their privileges and because healthy people will be prioritized under the virus protocol, we are being pushed further to the margins. Additionally, in just one month of the corona virus spreading we have seen how rampant institutionalized racism has led to horrific but unsurprising outcomes. Racist treatment in hospitals and jails which is deadly, has repeated those same patterns of oppression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592097812060-8RPABMQD68SP8OKQP5NZ/image-asset.jpeg About (Copy) - The results of a background check By the prison industrial complex does not legitimize if someone would make a good care worker or represent a true assessment of someone’s background. We have very limited funds and will be prioritizing paying previously incarcerated care workers upon request. With how difficult retention of care workers is and the fact that many care workers aren’t working right now, this will have dire and deadly impacts on the disabled community, and more impacting to black and brown disabled people. Across the board, disabled people struggle to find care workers who are committed to staying on long term. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/color-test-3 daily 0.75 2020-06-07 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/training-materials daily 0.75 2020-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594616862749-OOQ171BNLOPRDGC8TIM9/mostlyopaquewhite.png Training Materials - Training Materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594616959142-J0T0TB3BSHS4K0959TG6/fillerimage1.png Training Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594616978686-88DX9NEPBWII0WWGJCZN/fillerimage1.png Training Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594617000053-SQEJN1LG7YD8YSXRCR3E/fillerimage1.png Training Materials https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/join-us daily 0.75 2020-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594618135056-Q9TRU6DUSVHMKXPVO41S/whitesquare.png Join Us - Care is not a binary. As a mutual aid project, we encourage disabled people to interact with and contribute to care pods and hubs as they can, noting that this will be different for everyone. If you wish to join, please fill out the mutual aid form linked below. We will get back to you as soon as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594617955677-CTQ8I80884WTAQD7VJTQ/tealbg.png Join Us - Looking to Join? PDX Disabled Support welcomes any to apply to our hub / pod program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594618226016-T8J46CRRPLG2H1HPH7TI/whitesquare.png Join Us - If you are or know a non-English or Limited English Proficiency speaker, …someone who speaks a sign language, or if you need access support and would like to join, please still contact us to let us know, by calling us at (971) 209-2954. We can interpret to/from English, French, Spanish, and Russian, and we will do our best to connect them with an interpreter that will facilitate their access to information on this website as well as filling out the form. If this person does not speak any of these four languages, we will do our best to connect them with a person who speaks their language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594618470631-3G1WFDGVO40WGQA52RX1/tealbg.png Join Us - Если вы являетесь не носителем английского языка или носителем с неограниченным знанием английского языка или владеете им не полностью, владеете языком жестов или знаете, что вам нужна поддержка, и вы хотели бы присоединиться, пожалуйста, свяжитесь с нами, чтобы сообщить нам об этом, позвонив нам по телефону (971). 209-2954. Мы сделаем все возможное, чтобы связать вас с человеком, который говорит на вашем или их языке. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594618327916-SPGI8RVPKMFMXA60KMD2/tealbg.png Join Us - Si eres una persona que, o si conoces a alguien que: no habla inglés, tiene conocimientos limitados del inglés, habla una lengua de señas, o que necesita apoyo para acceder a la información del sitio y unirse a PDX Disabled Support, por favor contáctanos para decírnoslo, llamándonos al (971) 209-2954. 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PDX DISABLED SUPPORT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592602296675-NAX14VQX910MB81PEXCV/fillerimage3.png About Us - Old - We Are A group of mostly white, disabled, trans and queer organizers, creating a network of caregivers for self-identified disabled people. Accessing care or medical needs often places black and brown people into systems of institutionalized racism and increased police interactions. All of this has intensified during the Corona Virus crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592601836395-OPQ3PX5RS0JOGDVTKVD9/tealbg.png About Us - Old - We realize background checks are a form of gatekeeping and are anti-black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592602315152-A8Z4UITUPJTG8WLP0W04/fillerimage1.png About Us - Old - The results of a background check By the prison industrial complex does not legitimize if someone would make a good care worker or represent a true assessment of someone’s background. We have very limited funds and will be prioritizing paying previously incarcerated care workers upon request. With how difficult retention of care workers is and the fact that many care workers aren’t working right now, this will have dire and deadly impacts on the disabled community, and more impacting to black and brown disabled people. Across the board, disabled people struggle to find care workers who are committed to staying on long term. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592602335132-E5A11TRCNL9UBHMQQN1W/fillerimage2.png About Us - Old - Now with the Coronavirus Our caretaking needs are nearly totally neglected. There is a shortage of care workers. More abled people are beginning to experience what many have been living all this time within a broken system. Because of their privileges and because healthy people will be prioritized under the virus protocol, we are being pushed further to the margins. Additionally, in just one month of the corona virus spreading we have seen how rampant institutionalized racism has led to horrific but unsurprising outcomes. Racist treatment in hospitals and jails which is deadly, has repeated those same patterns of oppression. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/about-pds-former daily 0.75 2020-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592095445683-2RLVIWFQHZDXK20IN5JT/mostlyopaquewhite.png About Us - Former - ABOUT US. PDX DISABLED SUPPORT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592602296675-NAX14VQX910MB81PEXCV/fillerimage3.png About Us - Former - Our Philosophy Abolition through care work is not a binary, but a collaborative and emergent community process. We are creating a multi-way street where everyone gets their needs met harmoniously with how their life naturally functions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592601836395-OPQ3PX5RS0JOGDVTKVD9/tealbg.png About Us - Former - How care workers engage with the program changes with the person’s needs and health. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592602315152-A8Z4UITUPJTG8WLP0W04/fillerimage1.png About Us - Former - Disability is a spectrum. This spectrum is impacted by each person’s identity, disproportionately affecting race while also impacted by gender, class, housing status, documentation status, ect, and changes as a person’s needs and abilities do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592602335132-E5A11TRCNL9UBHMQQN1W/fillerimage2.png About Us - Former - Checking In. We ask that those engaged in this program assess and frequently check in with themselves to see where they fall on that spectrum and sign up for what is appropriate for their needs and abilities as well as communicate to the group if that changes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594615515075-J8MMUDOHO8V0J9ONQUHU/mostlyopaquewhite.png About Us - Former - Our History. This work has been done for generations and continues to be shared by marginalized people everywhere. Mia Mingus, a disability justice activist from the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, organized many of these existing practices into a pod model which she published in 2016, and which has heavily influenced this program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594615068406-22QKCJPJUXE3R50QQKGK/fillerimage1.png About Us - Former - PDX Disabled Support came to fruition during the Coronavirus pandemic. And through the Portland Community Action Network (PDXCAN). The initial idea and infrastructure began years ago through an organizer in Glitter Squadron PDX in 2016, but lacked support. As collaboration grew, we formed an independent group, PDX Disabled Support. We started as a group of mostly white, disabled, trans and queer, housed organizers. We will always aim to be more inclusive and center BIPOC and homeless people, who are especially targeted through various systems of the prison industrial complex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594615404584-4WZM09A9JSR7R18MMXZ2/mostlyopaquewhite.png About Us - Former - Our Work. PDX Disabled Support builds community and support networks for both disabled people and care workers through a network of hubs and care pods. We recognize marginalized people create their own systems of care work, as the state and institutionalized systems within the prison industrial complex are inaccessible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594615579448-4G2WKR3I6308E9THUDOR/yellowbg2.png About Us - Former - Institutionalized racism occurs in private houses, care settings and hospitals. Accessing care or medical needs often places black and brown people into systems of institutionalized racism and increased police interactions. All of this has been intensified during the Coronavirus crisis and intensifies further when intersected with being trans, queer, unhoused, undocumented, formerly incarcerated, and/or disabled/with psychiatric labels, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1594616117168-KCA7ZBZSCA3HEKJWN85N/fillerimage2.png About Us - Former - This is vital work we are proud of. We’re committed to building long-lasting relationships with community members, upholding principles of disability, racial and trans justice, and providing tools for accountability within the community. This includes building support structures to take the place of calling the police and not participating in mandatory reporting. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/home-pds daily 0.75 2020-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1593046537546-0473FS9K7AL8LDLR3PTU/logotitle6.png Home - PDX Disabled Support ⬇︎⬇︎⬇︎ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592885033296-DVAGMXC6JD9ARPDA215R/hubbg1.png Home - What is a Hub? Hubs are support centers —delivery, supply, wellness, emotional and others— that are based on the personalized care plans of the disabled people of each pod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592885094189-9K1LF5XDSHHMMUXL5YEQ/hubbg2.png Home - What is a Pod? A community care pod is a small collaborative group of disabled people, advocates, and care workers based on geographical location, cultural background or previous relationships. Each pod self-organizes and co-creates a space that works best for them to balance accountability, accessibility needs, language, and taking care of themselves. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/signup-form daily 0.75 2020-07-13 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/what-are-hubs-pods daily 0.75 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592610309363-UNDOP3TEXKOF6YP7H2MO/whitesquare.png What Are Hubs & Pods? (Copy) - What Are Pods & Hubs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596513397777-W33L0KN0SXI78TZGRHKV/hubimage8.png What Are Hubs & Pods? (Copy) - There are two kinds of Hubs: Independent Hubs, which provide resources on an as-needed basis for the pods and general program, and Interconnected Hubs, where care workers directly work within each community care pod. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596401387406-E4RC5U9DKA1D3F0LWLG4/hubimage1.png What Are Hubs & Pods? (Copy) - What is a Hub? Hubs are groups focused on responding to one aspect of care work, like facilitating access, obtaining supplies, cooking food, etc. Each hub is sustained through a worker supportive system. Each care worker is a member of a specific hub and also a member of one community care pod. Care workers within hubs can choose to have various degrees of support for themselves Cross-Training between hubs is encouraged for people who wish to do multiple types of care work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596401355373-W5L5G1LM3CE1P98ZR3PQ/hubimage3.png What Are Hubs & Pods? (Copy) - What is a Pod? A community care pod is a collaborative group of disabled people, advocates, and care workers who are connected to supporting hubs Each pod self organizes and co-creates a space that works best for them to balance being accountable to the work, accessibility needs, language, and care. Care workers can shadow and be mentored in other pods to have an idea of what other pods are doing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596600763153-LVWRLCGF2Z388GURGLQQ/chart3.png What Are Hubs & Pods? (Copy) https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/about-care-work daily 0.75 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596670235364-SRONYDEGMEXFZTOBJZ3H/mostlyopaquewhite.png About Care Work - About Care Work. In the Pod & Hub system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596404085781-59SEY0IA5STW5UKVLRWT/hubimage9.png About Care Work - Active Shift When a pod or hub member is available and working. This shift is supported by individuals in the On-Call shift. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596404122752-X4Z2J6CSW65W5JYBHK18/hubimage14.png About Care Work - On-Call Shift This ideally follows an active shift. They provide backup to the “active role” including mentoring new care workers on active shifts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596404150736-6Y59GBYHPC3EATQRCAZJ/hubimage1.png About Care Work - Resting Shift When people are away, resting during their part of the rotation and/or unavailable to work at any shift at any given time.* https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596405059118-LCAND7CRFOI7A7XKUPQD/yellowbg2.png About Care Work PDX Disabled Support is a mutual aid program where people can volunteer as organizers or choose their own involvement in the program as they are able. We recognize that care work is done by disabled and marginalized people both so their own care can happen, and to support the care of others. We aim to uplift disabled people and the labor they do on many levels, often unseen and unrecognized. This work should be supported when disabled people request it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596404825932-Z85LHTUYMB5CZ4XVGWPD/whitesquare.png About Care Work - Recognizing Disabled People as Care Workers. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/about-us-photos daily 0.75 2020-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592095445683-2RLVIWFQHZDXK20IN5JT/mostlyopaquewhite.png About Us Photos - ABOUT US. PDX DISABLED SUPPORT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409523617-YQK9JQ12Z2K6C653DSYM/blueabolition.jpg About Us Photos - On Abolition. Institutionalized racism occurs in care settings from private houses to hospitals. Accessing medical or psychiatric care often places black and brown people into oppressive systems and increases the chance of police interactions. The Coronavirus crisis has intensified this dynamic, as do intersecting with trans, queer, houseless, undocumented, formerly incarcerated . We’re committed to building long-lasting relationships with community members, upholding principles of disability, racial and trans justice, and providing tools for accountability within the community. This includes building support structures to take the place of calling the police and not participating in mandatory reporting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409712104-59KLV6JSMWZL7AFZTV78/care.jpg About Us Photos - On Care. Capitalism misunderstands and devalues care work and views disabled people as a commodities to be exploited and discarded. In contrast, we believe care work is not a one-way transaction, but a collaborative and emergent community process. Our support networks are meant to branch out and function in harmony with people’s needs and lifestyles. Though disabled people are the focus of our community care pods, we recognize that mutual support lifts us all up. Joining care work is a radical act. This is vital work we are proud of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409474411-8QSQXTLJJJT0P96RYDXK/disability.jpg About Us Photos - On Disability. Disability is a spectrum and is impacted by identity and time. Race, gender, class, housing status, documentation status, and other factors shape each person’s experience of disability. One’s needs and abilities can vary throughout their life as well. We ask that those engaged in this program check in with themselves frequently to assess and communicate what is appropriate for their needs and abilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596410543954-JMZHT2C2WHFXUZURS27R/whitesquare.png About Us Photos - Our History. This work has been done for generations and continues to be shared by marginalized people everywhere. Mia Mingus, a disability justice activist from the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, organized many of these existing practices into a pod model which she published in 2016, and which has heavily influenced this program. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/about-us-draft-1 daily 0.75 2020-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592095445683-2RLVIWFQHZDXK20IN5JT/mostlyopaquewhite.png About Us - Draft 1 - ABOUT PDX DISABLED SUPPORT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409712104-59KLV6JSMWZL7AFZTV78/care.jpg About Us - Draft 1 - On Care. Capitalism misunderstands and devalues care work and views disabled people as a commodities to be exploited and discarded. In contrast, we believe care work is not a one-way transaction, but a collaborative and emergent community process. Our support networks are meant to branch out and function in harmony with people’s needs and lifestyles. Though disabled people are the focus of our community care pods, we recognize that mutual support lifts us all up. Joining care work is a radical act. This is vital work we are proud of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409523617-YQK9JQ12Z2K6C653DSYM/blueabolition.jpg About Us - Draft 1 - On Abolition. Institutionalized racism occurs in care settings from private houses to hospitals. Accessing medical or psychiatric care often places black and brown people into oppressive systems and increases the chance of police interactions. The Coronavirus crisis has intensified this dynamic, as do intersecting with trans, queer, houseless, undocumented, formerly incarcerated . We’re committed to building long-lasting relationships with community members, upholding principles of disability, racial and trans justice, and providing tools for accountability within the community. This includes building support structures to take the place of calling the police and not participating in mandatory reporting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409474411-8QSQXTLJJJT0P96RYDXK/disability.jpg About Us - Draft 1 - On Disability. Disability is a spectrum and is impacted by identity and time. Race, gender, class, housing status, documentation status, and other factors shape each person’s experience of disability. One’s needs and abilities can vary throughout their life as well. We ask that those engaged in this program check in with themselves frequently to assess and communicate what is appropriate for their needs and abilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596410543954-JMZHT2C2WHFXUZURS27R/whitesquare.png About Us - Draft 1 - Our History. This work has been done for generations and continues to be shared by marginalized people everywhere. Mia Mingus, a disability justice activist from the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, organized many of these existing practices into a pod model which she published in 2016, and which has heavily influenced this program. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/hub-listings daily 0.75 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596670402880-RVFFCL8G55K80N691JIF/mostlyopaquewhite.png Hub Listings - Our Hubs. Descriptions of what each hub contributes as a whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627027080-XZ9OBKL7MSJBM4WRMT9C/hubimage1.png Hub Listings - Emotional Support Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627719176-UWLVQOSP6NLTR0IH1M2S/hubimage10.png Hub Listings - Advocate Hub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627853860-J4UQ83DYAWQIKS7Y1UD8/hubimage12.png Hub Listings - Outreach Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596399033092-RAIS0V6JI0NC7SDHD24N/SRhub.png Hub Listings - Anti State Repression Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592628068977-U42V9Y9KB51ASYM6LRN0/hubimage14.png Hub Listings - Tech Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627562529-T1QY1FH5YAKJSJ77H5AO/hubimage7.png Hub Listings - Access Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592626978397-TKK713WAHXRJQTXOCHZ8/hubimage4.png Hub Listings - Financial Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627801003-3URUWXVUD369NW949O3E/hubimage11.png Hub Listings - Hygiene Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627264227-T80XDN6ONIZ7054D20ZS/hubimage6.png Hub Listings - Personal Care Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627669719-9FTXIE16B4FC3B7DAFVU/hubimage9.png Hub Listings - Delivery Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596399389520-RHAXF9F0QPLQKD4D3UEU/Leadership+Hub.png Hub Listings - Leadership Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627925434-3PKFLEMJACCHE8BUDF7T/hubimage13.png Hub Listings - Cooking Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592627580427-OUSPWCXCEO7BM0I8ZMJX/hubimage8.png Hub Listings - Supplies Hub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592626940263-3J9LQKXOMMG19NR7FMG4/hubimage3.png Hub Listings - Wellness Hub. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/about-us daily 0.75 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1592095445683-2RLVIWFQHZDXK20IN5JT/mostlyopaquewhite.png About Us - ABOUT PDX DISABLED SUPPORT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409712104-59KLV6JSMWZL7AFZTV78/care.jpg About Us - On Care. Capitalism misunderstands and devalues care work and views disabled people as a commodity to be exploited and discarded. In contrast, we believe care work is not a one-way transaction, but a collaborative and emergent community process. Our support networks are meant to branch out and function in harmony with people’s needs and lifestyles. Though disabled people are the focus of our community care pods, we recognize that mutual support lifts us all up. Joining care work is a radical act. This is vital work we are proud of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409523617-YQK9JQ12Z2K6C653DSYM/blueabolition.jpg About Us - On Abolition. Institutionalized racism occurs in care settings from private houses to hospitals. Accessing medical or psychiatric care often places black and brown people into oppressive systems and increases the chance of police interactions. The Coronavirus crisis has intensified this dynamic, as do intersecting with trans, queer, houseless, undocumented, formerly incarcerated . We’re committed to building long-lasting relationships with community members, upholding principles of disability, racial and trans justice, and providing tools for accountability within the community. This includes building support structures to take the place of calling the police and not participating in mandatory reporting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596409474411-8QSQXTLJJJT0P96RYDXK/disability.jpg About Us - On Disability. Disability is a spectrum and is impacted by identity and time. Race, gender, class, housing status, documentation status, and other factors shape each person’s experience of disability. One’s needs and abilities can vary throughout their life as well. We ask that those engaged in this program check in with themselves frequently to assess and communicate what is appropriate for their needs and abilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596512290338-4FPGP03R3NYIY2TR3PS9/tealbg.png About Us - PDX Disabled Support came to fruition during the Coronavirus pandemic. And through the Portland Community Action Network (PDXCAN). The initial idea and infrastructure began years ago through an organizer in Glitter Squadron PDX in 2016, but lacked support. As collaboration grew, we formed an independent group, PDX Disabled Support. We started as a group of mostly white, disabled, trans and queer, housed organizers. We will always aim to be more inclusive and center BIPOC and homeless people, who are especially targeted through various systems of the prison industrial complex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1596410543954-JMZHT2C2WHFXUZURS27R/whitesquare.png About Us - Our History. This work has been done for generations and continues to be shared by marginalized people everywhere. Mia Mingus, a disability justice activist from the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, organized many of these existing practices into a pod model which she published in 2016, and which has heavily influenced this program. https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/temp-signup-form daily 0.75 2020-08-06 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/home-temp daily 1.0 2020-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eb21233eb1eaa19a0219bb9/1593046537546-0473FS9K7AL8LDLR3PTU/logotitle6.png Home Temp - PDX Disabled Support ⬇︎⬇︎⬇︎ https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/crisis-plan daily 0.75 2021-08-11 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/take-action daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://pdxdisabledsupport.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-12