Houston Center for Independent Living

07/22/2025

🎉✨ You’re Invited! ✨🎉
Join us as we celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)! 💙

📅 Wednesday, July 23rd
🕛 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
📍 11111 Wilcrest Green Drive, Suite 385, Houston, TX 77042

✅ FREE food
✅ Adaptive games & activities
✅ Exciting door prizes
✅ Fun, fellowship, and celebration!

Let’s honor this milestone together and celebrate progress, inclusion, and community. Bring your friends, family, everyone is welcome! 💪💙

03/28/2025

06/13/2024

Hello friends and family! My friend, Jill Jacobs, Executive Director, National Association of the Councils on Developmental Disabilities, has been invited to speak at the White House. The event will take place 18 June 2024 at 1:30 Eastern.

This will be a public event, and will be livestreamed for everyone to watch.

The event is a celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Olmstead decision. This 1999 Supreme Court decision set the stage for people with disabilities to live at home instead of institutions. Yes, you read that correctly. It was not until 1999 that it was required that people with disabilities must be given a choice to live in the community instead of a facility.

Please mark your calendars to join her for this wonderful and informative event. It would mean so much to her (and me) if you would be there virtually with Jill.

This will be a very people-friendly event; not too much policy talk. It will be focused on real people telling stories about their real lives.

You do not have to be a 'politics person' or a 'disability person' to be there. YOU live in the community, and we want YOU to understand how important this landmark decision was and celebrate with us.
As soon as a link is available to send out, I will forward it on to each of you via FB. And please... Tell all your friends!
Thanks and much love! ♡

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09/13/2023

Invitation to Mayoral Forum - Building a Better Future for Our City Call us today at 713-974-4621 Scan QR Code or by visiting us at https://qrcc.me/rzg1rzb2ikwo to register today.

SAVE THE DATE: MAYORAL CANDIDATE'S FORUM – Let your concerns be known! Candidates will discuss issues specific to the senior, disability, & other under-represented communities. – Thursday, September 14, 2023, 10am - 1 pm; Refreshments served, At the Mayoral Forum, you’ll have the opportunity to: Listen to issues that matter to you.; Submit questions to the candidates. Your Choice, Your Vote; See You There. (In Partnership with Houston Center for Independent Living & Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities) Multi-Service Center, 1475 W. Gray St., Houston, TX; There is a QR code located on the image to scan or click on the image to register. To register manually please call our office at 713.974.4621.

09/09/2023

Could you or someone you love benefit from opening an ABLE account? Wondering why it might be beneficial? ABLE accounts allow eligible individuals the opportunity to save and fund a variety of qualified disability expenses without endangering eligibility for certain benefits that are critical to their health and well-being, such as Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income. Learn more and get started at bit.ly/3EgbIQI.

08/03/2023

With City Officials, soon former Mayor Sylvester Turner, potentially future Mayor Sheliá Jackson Lee (She’s rockin the pink jacket). Thanks for being an allied in our disability community! Make the disability vote count this November! My choice, My Vote!

07/31/2023

03/21/2023

Call us today 713-974-4621

03/05/2023

Dear all-
We have lost a great leader and amazing disability rights advocate! She will be missed greatly. Thanks Judy Heumann! ❤️
Love Chamane
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(Image of young Judy, seated in her wheelchair, wearing khaki pants, yellow shirt and teal jacket. She is smiling. This image is from the cover of TIME Magazine.)

02/25/2023

Register now! AAC Counts: The Urgent Need for Better Data About People with Significant Speech-Related Disabilities

February 23, 2023 - 11:30 PT / 2:30 ET

What data exist and what data are missing about people who need and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in the United States? Find out what CommunicationFIRST and the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) uncovered during this one-year Ability Central-funded grant project, and what our recommendations are for policymakers and researchers.

We count the things we care about in society. We must begin to count people who cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2216764291246/WN_Nt5hOoEnQ9qt9ntfTxCM9A