Adapt takes Constitution Ave. Shadow of Capitol
April 27,2009 Chained for freedom at the White House
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Community Now! is a Texas grassroots group passionately committed to promoting inclusive communities for all people who are marginalized because of disability. We actively work to free people from institutions and shift public funds toward community supports. We speak out for the 5,000 Texans trapped in "state schools". We stand in solidarity with the 88,000 Texans languishing on waiting lists for community services. We are family members, self-advocates and allies and we want community. Now.
Michael Nicholson Information and Petition
Michael Nicholson was killed by his caretakers at the Lubbock State School on June 6, 2009. Six employees were fired. To date, only one person involved in the murder has been arrested, and he has been released.
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YouTube video: Watch it here
Sign the petition: Click here
About This Blog
This blog was started in response to the Department of Justice reports detailing civil rights violations in Texas' institutions for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities. Its purpose is to disseminate information about the human rights violations that have occurred and continue to occur in state and federally-funded institutions in Texas, as well as document community response and resistance to Texas' long-held practice of warehousing people with disabilities and neglecting the call for expanded community services and supports. You can learn more about us by visiting our website.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in the blog are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of Community Now! except for posted press releases and other official documents.
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Community Now! Demands of the 2009 Texas Legislature
- Ensure that all individuals choosing to leave state institutions have every opportunity to do so via a planning process that presumes community services to be an appropriate choice
- Mandate that appropriated public funds follow deinstititutionalized individuals into the community
- Immediately halt all admissions of children to any state institution
- Immediately transition all children currently residing in state institutions to community living options with state Money Follows the Person funding
- Fully fund the 100,000+ person waiting lists for all Texas Medicaid waiver programs
- Direct the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) to develop a plan to consolidate state institutions
- Create an independent entity to monitor state institutions
- Develop an independent advocate system to ensure that institutionalized individuals who retain their own guardianship have the support they need to make decisions regarding community placement
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