Changing Spaces Michigan

26/07/2025

Happy Changing Spaces Awareness Day! Today also happens to be the 35th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act!

That is what makes today such an amazing day to celebrate the all the advocates around the country and around the world who work to make the world more accessible and inclusive. I especially want to highlight any chapter leaders throughout the county who are helping take charge and advocate for a safe and dignified restroom experience. This is through the instillation of height adjustable adult changing tables! This in itself recognizes and celebrates people with disabilities!

I also want to thank all of you. Every post, every PM, every call to an elected official or business, you are making a difference as well! So today is about you too.

Please watch and share this year’s Changing Spaces video. We have accomplished so much but still have so much ground to cover. I can’t wait to see what we can accomplish in the next year.

26/07/2025

I have had people online counter my advocacy as well as others claiming that they don’t know of anyone who needs an adult changing table. But did you consider that some people don’t feel comfortable talking about them or a loved one needing to change their incontinence product or diaper because of stigma.

The more important thing I don’t think people realize is that many people choose to stay home when they can avoid it when the world isn’t accessible to them. Most people never consider access needs until they have to.

This can change in the blink of an eye. We are all one accident, illness, or catastrophic event from joining a minority group. Being marginalized by a society that until the 90’s, didn’t even consider people with disabilities.

So consider what a difference an adult changing table would make in YOUR life if you suddenly needed one.

23/07/2025

Changing Spaces and our Awareness Day isn’t just about sharing the need with people that don’t live or know the need for powered height adjustable adult changing tables, it is also an opportunity to share where in your community may be accessible. That is where our map comes in handy.

Whether you just found a new adult changing table, know of one in your community, or are hoping to find one near you, this map is an amazing way to share with and learn from others what locations have accommodated the needs of ourselves or our love ones though-out North America. Just go to www.UCTmap.com or scan the QR code below.

This is also a great advocacy tool to show venues and busnesses what similar locations have done to increase accessibility and inclusion!

23/07/2025

This is a great testimony as to how powered height adjustable adult changing tables enable individuals, and families with disabilities to have access to their communities!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dblzvdGkbOo&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLr2B1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHj9uGsAs7B-BrJtCF8lVi2Z87lzbj_Rr2DKKk1x5QsjsSZckn6haHXleXPSp_aem_65tG1PhbCOhLk1MPsDEU1w

22/07/2025

This is an amazing community partnership to enhance accessibility and inclusion!

20/06/2025

Yet another park Oakland County Parks are including not one, but TWO powered height adjustable adult changing tables. Thank you for including this in your projects!

19/06/2025

Yesterday I recorded a podcast with 'Rooster' Rossiter, President and Co-Founder and Joe Orth, Executive Vice President of Ainsley's Angels of America. This podcast is all about inclusion and was an amazing platform to be able to talk about my advocacy work, the importance of adult changing tables and adaptive sports, as well a bit about myself.

To be able to talk about these topics with two people who not only get it, have lived it, and are around many of these topics everyday made this a unique opportunity to share with others a perspective that they may not have considered.

Please give this a chance and listen to the podcast as well as share with others.

https://youtu.be/JKNgJOBA7UE?si=XR_mC5NPc9djbV7E

Joshua Taylor, founder of the page “Disabled, Not Unable”, shares his personal journey with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which led him from being a comme...

16/06/2025

Through awareness and advocacy, we are working towards accessible and inclusive design. If you or your family have a business you would like to see include a powered height adjustable adult changing table, feel free to send them this post or put them in touch. I would love to answer any questions or put them in touch with someone who can. We love helping improve our communities with better access for all.

13/06/2025

Please consider participating in the public comment period. It is hard enough without protections providing bathroom access but to think that ramps or elevators would not be required again is deplorable. We should be fighting to expand access, not to keep what we have fought so hard for in the first place.

📢 🛑 Protect Disability Rights Now!

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a “direct final rule” that would eliminate a key protection under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act—the requirement that new buildings constructed or renovated with federal funds be accessible to people with disabilities.

🚫 DOE now calls this requirement “unnecessary” and “burdensome.” If this rule takes effect, it would:
•❌ Eliminate enforceable accessibility standards for new federally funded buildings
•❌ Allow renovations to proceed without ramps, elevators, accessible restrooms, and other basic accommodations
•❌ Undermine the civil rights of people with disabilities

🗓 This change is scheduled to become final on July 15, 2025—unless enough public comments are submitted by this Sunday, June 15.

📣 We urge you to speak out now. It only takes a few minutes to submit a comment, and your voice can help stop this rollback. ✍️

👉 Click both links below and leave a public comment on each (they can be identical):
🔗 https://buff.ly/ylnZSSL
🔗 https://buff.ly/rmUByRO

Feel free to copy and paste any of the comments below—or use them as inspiration to write your own message opposing the rule.

I strongly oppose this rule—removing accessibility standards is unacceptable and discriminatory.

I disapprove of DOE’s decision to eliminate Section 504 protections for new federally funded buildings.

I oppose this rollback—it threatens basic civil rights for people with disabilities.

I do not support this rule—accessibility must remain a requirement, not an option.

I strongly disapprove—this action undermines decades of progress toward inclusion and equity.

Let’s stand together to protect accessibility and civil rights for all.