- Programs
- Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI)
- Client Assistance Program (CAP)
- Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights (PAIR)
- Protection and Advocacy for Assistive Technology (PAAT)
- Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS)
- Protection and Advocacy for the Help America Vote Act (PAVA)
- Protection and Advocacy for Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI)
- Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (PADD)
- Information
Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights (PAIR)
Established by Congress under the Rehabilitation Act of 1993. In 1994 WVA was designated the Protection and Advocacy for Individual Rights (PAIR). The PAIR program was formed to assist individuals with disabilities who were not already eligible for other advocacy programs within WVA.
Eligibility Criteria
A PAIR client must have a substantial limitation in one major life activity and not be eligible under our PADD or PAIMI programs, and the issue cannot be addressed by the CAP program.
Funding Source
U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration
