Advocacy
Our members work directly with VA officials and serve as VA Voluntary Service representatives at medical centers, ensuring veterans receive the care and benefits they have earned.
Colonial PVA is a peer-led community built around one belief: life doesn't stop after a spinal cord injury or disorder. It's just different, and everything is still possible. We serve veterans, their families, and their caregivers across Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, the Philadelphia area, and Washington DC — and we have been doing it since 1968.
We are the Colonial Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America, the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization focused solely on spinal cord injury and disorder, founded in 1946. Our 320 members — and growing — live with spinal cord injuries and disorders including MS and ALS, and they come from every branch of the U.S. military.
What makes this community different from a program or a resource is the people in it. The guidance here comes from lived experience. When a mentor takes a newly injured veteran out on the water or back onto a golf course, that is not a program outcome. That is one person showing another what is still possible.
Colonial PVA holds the whole circle — veterans, caregivers, spouses, and family members. Membership is open to any honorably discharged U.S. military veteran with a spinal cord injury or disorder, whether service-connected or not. Membership is free. Programs are free. Benefits advocacy through our National Service Officers is free. There are no financial barriers between a veteran and the support they have earned.
Our Accessibility Needs Program extends beyond our membership. It provides wheelchairs, ramps, home modifications, and other essential equipment to low-income individuals with disabilities throughout Delaware — regardless of veteran status.
Our programs are built around what our members want to do with their lives, not just what they need to manage. They span:
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