Changing Spaces - Texas

Changing Places

The Changing Places difference. For all the registered Changing Plages check out our map http://www.changing-places.org/find_a_toilet.aspx

Team Briar Bear

Before a few dozen families, all caring for at least one child with immense medical needs, lawmakers said what the parents had been hoping to hear for more than two years.

“We hear you. We're rolling up our sleeves," said Plano Rep. Jeff Leach, a far-right Republican and notable addition to the strange political bedfellows working to fix problems with the state's privatized Medicaid system known as managed care.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2019/02/26/hear-lawmakers-promiseto-fix-texas-broken-medicaid-managed-care-system

Kudos!! Change is taking place!!

EXCITING NEWS:
NEW UNIVERSAL CHANGING PLACE AT COOKS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL in FORT WORTH, TEXAS!
We want to give a SHOUT OUT to Cindy and her son, Clayton for making it a REALITY!
Way to GO! So proud of my HOME STATE!

HHSC Seeks Applicants for Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Committee

http://www.tcdd.texas.gov/medicaid-managed-care-advisory-committee-seeks-applicants/

tcdd.texas.gov HHSC is seeking applicants to serve on the Medicaid Managed Care Advisory Committee. This is an opportunity for advocates to contribute to improving the quality of Medicaid managed care services in…

Universal Changing Places

Let's Make 2019, the year of CHANGE! No one should EVER have to be lain on a Public Restroom Floor!

Protect TX Fragile Kids

CHILDREN BELONG AT HOME
Although this is the story of one child in Florida, make no mistake: this is also happening in Texas. Disability Rights Texas is currently moving forward with a lawsuit to address the thousands of young people currently residing in nursing homes who are unable to obtain the assistance necessary to live in the community.

"How nursing homes became the residence of choice for severely challenged children is at the core of the Justice Department’s battle with the state. Florida, the DOJ said in a letter, “has planned, structured and administered a system of care that has led to the unnecessary separation and isolation of hundreds of children in nursing facilities.”

Agency administrators have “systematically” cut services for parents, making it almost impossible for them to care for their sick children at home, the letter says. At the same time, they’ve agreed to pay nursing homes a more generous rate for children than for elders, creating an additional incentive."

“Nursing homes are not a place for children,” said Dr. Gwen Wurm, who teaches clinical pediatrics at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. We should be doing all we can to keep children in a family setting,” added Wurm.

“State policies and practices have favored institutional care at the expense of community-based services,” the letter said.

Some children, the Justice Department said, “have been in a facility for a decade or longer, including some who entered a facility as toddlers.”

Stages & Ages Resources for Families Raising Individuals with Special Needs

Special Needs Parent Depression

BY LAURIE MCLEAN

Lawmakers Look To Improve Care For Kids With Complex Conditions

disabilityscoop.com About 500,000 kids — including many with developmental disabilities — are considered to be medically complex. Proposed legislation aims to make it easier to coordinate their care.

https://hhs.texas.gov/about-hhs/communications-events/news/2018/09/members-sought-star-kids-managed-care-advisory-committee

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Let's make this a REALITY all across AMERICA! This opened last July!!! More are coming...

Pain & Profit: Texas health agency beefs up oversight of Medicaid companies as House inquiry begins

AUSTIN – The state agency charged with providing health care to millions of vulnerable Texans will hire about a 100 new regulators, including nurses to check on patients in their homes, after The Dallas Morning News investigation exposed how private companies make billions while they deny or delay crucial services and medical equipment.

Those new jobs, along with more than $7 million a year to increase oversight of companies, come as top health officials prepare for a legislative investigation, which begins Wednesday.

That joint-committee investigation is led by Rep. Sarah Davis, the Houston-area Republican who chairs the General Investigating and Ethics Committee and the subcommittee that guards the purse strings for the sprawling health and human services Texas Health and Human Services Commission. That agency pays private companies about $22 billion a year to giant companies and a few small non-profits under what's called "Medicaid managed care."

dallasnews.com AUSTIN – The state agency charged with providing health care to millions of vulnerable Texans will hire about a 100 new regulators, including...

“Biggest challenge:” Moms of children with special needs advocate for adjustable-height changing tables

Great read about our cause to help raise awareness. 👍

fox6now.com MILWAUKEE -- Soccer through the eyes and ears of Matthew Knowles is indeed a beautiful game. “There’s always something to watch and people going past, and he gets pretty excited,” said his mother, Sarah Knowles. Matthew and his family are regulars at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, where they chee...

Protect TX Fragile Kids

Setting up for at the GOP Convention in . Democratic Convention next week in Ft. Worth.

Special thanks to each of you who donated and made this possible, and to the talented Chelle Cates Photography for the gripping images; and to The Dallas Morning News and J. David McSwane for the moving series, which we continue to share. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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Texas families take fight for fragile kids to the Legislature

interactives.dallasnews.com Part 5 of Pain & Profit, a Dallas Morning News investigation.

Changing Spaces - Texas's cover photo

Changing Spaces - Texas

Why This Sign Means Inaccessibility for My Son With a Disability

themighty.com "The need is bigger than you can see, and goes far beyond my son’s needs."

United State Department of Justice Civil Rights Division: Provide truly ADA accessible bathrooms

Please sign and share this petition!!

https://www.change.org/p/united-state-department-of-justice-civil-rights-division-provide-truly-ada-accessible-bathrooms?recruiter=544006841&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_page&utm_term=des-lg-share_petition-custom_msg

www.change.org Since the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 many accommodations have been put in place to ensure that people with different abilities have access to the same buildings and services that the able-bodied have. While great strides toward inclusion have been made, the very fundamental accommodatio...

Would anyone out there like to help me admin the page and perhaps organize the movement?

Hey everyone July 26th is changing spaces awareness day!! We want to flood social media sites with as much information about the campaign as possible on that day. If there are any pictures, video, you want to share please do, across the states we will be posting every couple of hours. Please help us share and promote awareness. Thank you all for your support! Please let me known if you have any questions

https://www.facebook.com/ChangingPlacesUK/posts/1391741247518923:0

This has to be one of the most beautiful Changing Places in the world Sandcastle Waterpark Blackpool

HAPPY CHANGING PLACES DAY

Everything you wanted to know about Changing places USA

https://malonemama.wordpress.com/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-changing-places-usa/

malonemama.wordpress.com Imagine that if every time you went to a public bathroom, you had to lay on the floor to do it. How would you feel? Would you feel uncomfortable and unsanitary? If so, the you can relate to the man…

hello all! is there somewhere in TX that you would like to consider having changing tables for the disabled? Please comment the name of the place, what city it is located. Also, if you would like to include anything positive about the place or why you go there we can contact them and say why you like going there and ask about considering installing changing tables.
(Credit to Changing Places - NC for the original post)

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"On Thursday my Down's Syndrome daughter will celebrate her 5th Wedding anniversary. She went to special needs school throughout her education and when she left school spent two years at college, again special needs. She managed to get a work experience placement in Tescos and they kept her. She has been working there for 14 years. She met her husband there and they both have a mortgage in their own right. It is learning disability week and for me that means 'things are and have changed but we still have a long way to go' "

Happy anniversary Louise ! I hope life gives you nothing but open doors and love.
Learning disability week is about showing that people with learning disabilities are PEOPLE first.

Send us your stories, and we will share them.

Why We Need Better Public Restrooms for People With Disabilities

http://themighty.com/2016/05/raising-awareness-for-restrooms-for-people-with-disabilities/

themighty.com "My beautiful boy deserves more than a restroom floor and all of those germs."

So true - my eldest was 6-7 before we sort of had potty training down. Can't tell you how many times in his 14 years of life he's laid down on a bathroom floor or had to be changed in the back of a car.
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People outgrow baby changing facilities

That is why we need Changing Places

This is why we campaign

The Other Bathroom Wars

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2016/05/25/the-other-bathroom-wars/?_r=0&referer=http://m.facebook.com

mobile.nytimes.com For people with disabilities and their families, the battle for accessible toilet facilities has been going on for decades.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1345425355483846&id=300242193335506

Like and share, this has to stop

Changing Places > Home

http://www.changing-places.org/Default.aspx

www.changing-places.org The Changing Places campaign for fully accessible toilets

Please visit the website for more information.
Let's make more accommodating restrooms for our special needs community a reality. Who wants to lay on a public restroom floor?