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Office Hours: Improving Mobility for Veterans – Connecting to Health Care and Beyond
Click here to view the recording Click here for the presentation slides On December 1 from 2:00-3:00 PM, ET NADTC’s will host an office hours session focused on how to connect Veterans to community transportation options and will provide key strategies to improve mobility issues affecting Veterans. This session will feature a presentation by Bryan…
Read more »Older Driver Safety Awareness Week 2022
Nov 29, 2022Guest Blogger – Jane Rath serves as the Project Director for the Clearinghouse on Older Road User Safety (ChORUS). She works closely with NHTSA, the ChORUS subject matter experts and other partners to increase awareness and enhance services and programs aimed at improving older road user safety. Older Driver Safety Awareness Week, December 5-9, 2022,…
Read more »A Ride to Independence: Kyle’s Story
Oct 18, 2022Transportation allows individuals with disabilities to achieve and sustain employment, and as employment opportunities expand for people with disabilities to work in integrated settings, transportation services to these jobs become even more important. While Medicaid waiver programs often cover transportation costs, some communities struggle to provide reliable transportation options afterhours or to employment outside of…
Read more »NEW! Every Ride Counts Volunteer Driver Campaign
NADTC has developed a new campaign to help volunteer transportation programs around the country recruit volunteer drivers. Volunteer drivers are critical to ensure that older adults and people with disabilities can safely get where they need to go.
Read more »Office Hours: Transportation and Social Engagement
Click here to view the recording Click here to download a copy of the presentation In partnership with the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC), engAGED: The National Resource Center for Engaging Older Adults hosted a September Office Hours call on transportation and social engagement. Participants will hear from NV Rides on how its…
Read more »Federal Funding for Transportation Programs Serving Older Adults and People with Disabilities
This Resource Guide provides an inventory of federal grants that may be used to serve the transportation needs of older adults and people with disabilities.
Read more »A Recap of Medicaid Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) Listening Sessions
Sep 08, 2022Background This blog post gives an overview of Medicaid NEMT service and also summarizes the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sponsored listening sessions that allowed mobility providers and stakeholders to provide feedback and shared learning about ways to improve the Medicaid program and NEMT benefit. Medicaid is a national program that provides health…
Read more »Seizures, Safety, and Transportation. Do You Know What To Do?
Join NADTC for an Office Hours on September 6, from 2-3 PM EST, to learn from our guest speaker Roxanne Cogil, Executive Director, Regional Teams with the Epilepsy Foundation. She will present the Epilepsy Foundation’s Seizure First Aid Ready program, and educate participants how to recognize and respond to seizures, while sharing examples as it…
Read more »Can I Cross the Street? Considerations for a Blind Pedestrian
Jul 29, 2022An Interview with Dona Sauerburger, COM This interview was conducted by NADTC staff Ken Thompson with Dona Sauerburger. Dona is a certified orientation and mobility (O&M) specialist, providing O&M to adults in their communities in Maryland and DC. She has had a special interest in preparing people who are blind or have low vision to…
Read more »“How can I assist you?” Reasonable Modification to Policy Considerations
The National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC) office hours are focused on enhancing training and technical assistance opportunities and offer further opportunities to interact with your peers, topic experts and NADTC staff. In recognition of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) Anniversary, this session will provide an overview of the reasonable modification rule of…
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