Disability Voter Registration Week

This week is disability voter registration week (which of course is really pretty much year round.) The disability voting project REV UP Texas and Register 2 Vote have made a handy tool for you!

If you aren’t registered to vote, or you need to update information for your voter registration, like if you have moved, use the QR code below or click here and it takes you to a site where you can register to vote or update your info. You will be mailed a stamped, addressed postcard with all your info filled in and you just need to sign it and stick it in the mail. Share with friends, cohorts, etc.

Just point your phone camera at this picture and website pops up!

If you don’t think your vote counts, ask yourself why people are trying to make it harder to vote.

Want to find out more about Registering Educating yourself on the issues Voting and Using your Power? (REV UP Texas) click here.

Nicky Boyte standing with Travis County Commissions holding up 2021 Voter Registration proclamation.
Nicky Boyte joins with Travis County Commissions to receive 2021 Voter Registration proclamation.

Community Attendant Video

Here is a video of testimony given for the Labor Day event.  We are getting calls at our office from people whose hours have been cut because there aren’t enough attendants available to cover their hours. 

 

The link below is a power point presentation on the issue.

Labor Day Message: Community Attendants – The Crisis Is Now!

A green star with the letters PACT inside. In a circle around the star are the words community attendants equal independence.ADAPT Free Our People logo with person in a wheelchair breaking chains over their head

 

 

 

 

 

SUBJECT:  Community Attendants Demand $15 per hour,   Health Benefits and Respect for their Essential Work

WHO:  Personal Attendant Coalition of Texas (PACT)  ADAPT of Texas * Statewide grassroots disability rights organization advocating for the integration of people with disabilities of all ages.

WHAT: A Labor Day Virtual Event highlighting the DEMANDS of Community Attendants to the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the Texas Legislature.

WHEN: Mon, Sept 6th at 1pm central* noon mountain

WHERE: Join Zoom Meeting  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87611487456?pwd=cTBoNnBETzRpRTRucWJyNjJxdkc1dz09

Meeting ID: 876 1148 7456       Passcode: 593343

Phone: 13462487799,,87611487456#

Facebook Live Event:     https://fb.me/e/1y0Y7iIn3

 WHY:  OUR HOMES NOT NURSING HOMES!

There is a crisis in recruiting and retaining Community Attendants.  People with disabilities and older Texans need Community Attendants to allow them to live in the community and Age in Place. 

COMMUNITY ATTENDANTS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS

BUT GET LITTLE RECOGNITION OR RESPECT.

The base wage rate is $8.11 with no health benefits.  The 87th Legislature did not appropriate any money to raise the base rate.  HHSC has documented the need for Community Attendants however their latest request for federal funds did little to alleviate the crisis in recruiting and retaining Community Attendants. HHS has done nothing to protect attendants from COVID-19.

PACT/ADAPT of Texas will offer possible solutions at this event.