ROUGH EDITED COPY WE COUNT: PENNSYLVANIANS WITH DISABILITIES AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DISABILITY HISTORY AND ACTION CONSORTIUM HEINZ HISTORY CENTER, MUELLER CENTER PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15222 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2019 * * * CART CAPTIONING*PROVIDED BY: ADVANCED REALTIME CAPTIONING SOLUTIONS, LLC [email protected] 412 513 6219 * * * * * This is … [Read more...]

Link to Video from Comcast Newsmakers: Untold Disability History Project Director Mary Hartley sits down with Sheila Hyland to discuss: the Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium's work preserving and sharing disability history as well as some history of Polk State Center and its impending closure and the upcoming "We Count" voting event at Heinz History Center on October … [Read more...]

Save October 10th 1-4 PM for a Voting Symposium Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium Event at Heinz History Center.  We will be sharing more information soon about local, state and national speakers and partners as well as the link to register. … [Read more...]

This week the History Consortium received exciting news: "The Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium has been selected to receive the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities’ 2019 Hervey B. Wilbur Historic Preservation Award. This award recognizes significant contributions to historic preservation of the archives of the field of intellectual and … [Read more...]