Recent Developments:

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• In late 2024-Early 2025, Ohio county boards of Developmental Disabilities showed off their new mobile changing stations, which they plan to lend or rent out to community events in their areas, making their events more inclusive to everyone. 

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• In January 2025, Kim and her son Aiden, and Jennifer and her son Matthew, were honored to attend the opening of the first of 29 new Ohio rest stops, all which will have family restrooms with a universal changing table. Governor DeWine also attended the opening and spoke to the press about the importance of inclusion in Ohio. 

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• In the Spring of 2024, grant funding became available to the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities. The Ohio County Boards of DD had the opportunity to apply for funding to install universal changing tables in their counties. 49 out of 88 counties applied for funding, and were awarded a grand total of $4.4 Million dollars granted toward installing universal changing tables throughout our communities! Grant funding can also be used toward mobile changing units such as the Momentum Refresh. 

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• In December 2022 Changing Spaces Ohio Leaders established a nonprofit, Inspired Access Foundation, to raise funds to install more universal changing tables around Ohio, as well as to provide adaptive equipment and other items to increase community accessibility and inclusion. Please donate to support the installation of more universal changing tables! (All donations go to Inspired Access Foundation, a 501C-3). 

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• January 2023 we met with officials from the Ohio Department of Transportation to discuss making Ohio's highway rest stops more inclusive by adding adult changing tables. This will allow people to travel throughout our state and be able to use the restroom while they travel. Since then, ODOT has committed to installing adult changing stations in 28 new Ohio rest stops by 2026! Read all about this exciting development in the Columbus Dispatch article here.

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• In 2023 Changing Spaces Ohio began partnering with Accessible Ohio, an initiative through Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities, to consult with businesses on how to become more accessible to all.

• In April 2023 Changing Spaces Ohio presented to the Ohio County Boards of Developmental Disabilities to encourage them to advocate for universal changing stations in their counties. Since then, many county boards of DD have taken up this cause and have purchased mobile changing units to be set up at outdoor community events such as festivals, as well as installing permanent changing stations in their buildings.