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2024 Summit Next Stop: Equitable Transportation
Quinault Beach Resort and Casino
April 17-19
Event Group Code: 4846
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![Travel training is an important part of improving the mobility of people within our transportation system. Teaching the community not only about what services are available, but how to utilize those services will enable the public transportation system to continue to grow. By implementing creative approaches to travel training, we can reach more people where they are and help them feel comfortable using public transportation.
The Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments (CWCOG) Mobility Management Program has implemented videos, toolkits, and activity books into its travel training program in an effort to reach more people in the community. These strategies are designed to increase the knowledge of and encourage the use of public transportation.
This session will go over these strategies implemented through the CWCOG Mobility Management Program, the impact they’ve had in the region, and what future strategies are planned.
Session: Weds, April 17 @ 11:00 AM
Every community has unique transportation needs and ways to address the needs. When mobility management and travel training staff from multiple transportation providers collaborate, it allows many issues to be addressed regionally including marketing, training, and interagency coordination.
The coordination and communication between public transportation providers can increase awareness of available services and help to educate human service agencies about available services. Strategies like maintaining a directory of services and regular meetings of transportation providers help increase understanding of how the public transportation system works to get people where they need to go, whether across town or across the state.
This session will go over the coordination strategies implemented through the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments (CWCOG) Mobility Management Program and the impacts those have made on the region.
Session: Weds, April 17 @ 1:00 PM]()
Lauren Read
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Mobility Management Coordinator
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments
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![Kristin is a Community Transportation Planner for the South Central Region at WSDOT. Prior to entering the transportation industry, she worked in public and private accounting. She is a licensed CPA and worked as a financial auditor before opening her own accounting firm. Deciding that she was much too extroverted to spend the rest of her working life on tax seasons she transitioned to a private non-profit transportation provider and fell in love with transportation. Now she is able to combine her love of helping people and compliance with the best division at WSDOT; the Public Transportation Division.
Budgeting For Your Project
Does hearing the word “budget” fill you with a sense of dread? Do you throw darts at a number on a wall and hope it will be enough for your project? Then this session is for you! It will provide an introduction to budgeting as well as considerations for preparing budgets for different types of projects through the WSDOT Consolidated Grant Application.
Session: Weds, April 17 @ 11:00 AM
Ways To Control Costs
Benjamin Franklin once said that nothing is certain except death and taxes. Now it seems that needs to be amended to death, taxes and rising costs. While this session won’t provide a silver bullet, it will help you create a playbook that you can use now and in the future.
Session: Thurs, April 18 @ 10:00 AM]()
Kristin Melcher, CPA
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Community Transportation Planner
WSDOT
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![This session will look at the steep rise in homelessness in the Pacific Northwest, the barriers homeless people face, and the intersections between homelessness and disability. Cedar Monroe has worked as a chaplain with folks experiencing homelessness for over a decade and is the author of Trash: A Poor White Journey, a book about their work in rural Grays Harbor County.
Session: Friday, April 19 @ 11:00 AM]()
Cedar Monroe
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Author: Trash; A Poor White Journey
Homelessness Advocate
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![Jim House is the Disability Integration Manager for the Coalition on Inclusive Emergency Planning (CIEP) at the Washington State Independent Living Council. CIEP is a statewide advisory group that focuses on effective communications, programmatic and physical access, and other functional access needs (AFN) and issues impacting people with disabilities and other marginalized communities in emergencies. Under his leadership, CIEP has grown its stakeholder network to include community advocates with disabilities and AFN, emergency management professionals, and other community based organization leaders. CIEP stakeholders participate in planning, exercises, assessments, and other activities, leading to a growth in services in Washington such as Text-to-911, accessible alerting technologies, ASL Alerts, equitable public health responses, and more. As a subject matter expert, Jim participates in several forums covering access issues with Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) before, during, and after disasters.
In 2015, as a result of Jim's ongoing leadership and community involvement, Portland, Oregon passed the first captioning activation ordinance requiring all television sets in public places to display captions during business hours. This ordinance has been emulated in more than a dozen cities around the country. In 2021, Washington became the first to enact this law statewide, followed by Oregon and Minnesota in 2023.
Jim has returned to Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI) as a Board Member. His accomplishments include a book, A PATH TOWARD AN ACCESSIBLE WORLD documenting TDI's 50 years of advocacy, implementing the Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, numerous presentations on consumer advocacy, television and Internet captioning issues. He wrote successful grant proposals, some resulting in nearly $3M in federal funding to develop emergency preparedness training programs and other projects. He has been involved in planning for publications, conferences and workshops on accessibility. With a layman’s understanding of “how things work”, Jim has given sophistication to various publications highlighting best practices and leadership in access to communications and information technologies for professionals and consumers alike.
Session: Weds, April 17 @ 4:00 PM]()
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![Anna Zivarts is a low-vision mom and nondriver who was born with the neurological condition nystagmus. Her book, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car-Dependency, will be published by Island Press in May 2024. Anna created the #WeekWithoutDriving challenge and launched the Disability Mobility Initiative at Disability Rights Washington. Previously, she led the disabled storytelling project Rooted in Rights, cofounded Time of Day Media, and worked as a storyfinder for the LGBT & HIV/AIDS and Voting Rights projects at the ACLU.]()
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![Wouldn’t it be cool if CTANW were to create/host a Roadeo for NEMT Drivers? What would that look like? What needs to be done to make that happen? Let’s start the conversation!
Session: Fri. April 19 @ 9:00 AM]()
Bob Macero
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Kitsap Transit
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Christina Loomis, MPA
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Travel Training Coordinator
InterCity Transit
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![The Pierce County Coordinated Transportation Coalition (PCCTC) is a group of people representing human services agencies, private and nonprofit transportation providers, the Medicaid transportation broker, local public transportation agencies, and people who use transportation services.
The PCCTC works to make it easier for seniors, individuals with disabilities and people with low incomes to get to work or school, medical or social service appointments, shopping, recreation and social activities. The PCCTC develops the local Coordinated Transit-Human Services Transportation Plan outlining strategies to meet the ever-increasing transportation needs in Pierce County, including rural areas such as Buckley, Bonney Lake, Carbonado, Eatonville, Graham, McKenna, Orting, Roy, Sumner and Wilkerson.
Within the PCCTC, Beyond the Borders transportation service helps eligible riders in east and south Pierce County, who are outside of the Pierce Transit service area, access public transit, medical services, employment and shopping. The service is free for eligible riders including people with disabilities, seniors 65+, veterans, youth aged 12-17, and those who identify as low income.
All riders must be approved for Beyond the Borders before accessing transportation. Apply online or by calling 2-1-1.
Beyond the Borders has two shuttles that run on a 45 minute schedule Monday through Friday. The Sumner/Bonney Lake route has connections to Sound Transit while the Spanaway/South Hill route has connections to Pierce Transit. And a special shuttle route for the veteran’s in Orting at the Tiny Home Village that runs Tuesday’s, Thursday’s and Saturday’s.
Demand response transportation, available for riders who do not live near a connector route, are available Monday-Saturday for dialysis appointments, work and other essential trips.
Weds, April 17 @ 11:00 AM]()
Daeveene May
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Social Service Program Specialist-3
Community Development-Transportation
Pierce County
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![Human Trafficking is happening every day across the US, including in the Pacific Northwest. Transit can play a key role in prevention, detection, and disruption of human trafficking. This session will provide basic information about human trafficking, its intersections with public transportation, and share free, industry-specific training resources, including a screening of nonprofit TAT’s training video for the bus industry and an introduction to our newly released human trafficking response protocol template. Attendees will leave with specific best practices and action steps that they can take to improve human trafficking awareness and response procedures within their agencies.
Session: Weds, April 17 @ 2:00 PM]()
Morgan Hagquist
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Travel Training Coordinator
InterCity Transit
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![Dispatchers-Travel Trainers most valuable tool.
Dispatchers play a crucial role in facilitating connections between Travel Trainers and riders, fostering teamwork that ultimately enhances mobility within the system. By building strong relationships with riders, dispatchers can provide valuable insights and assistance to Travel Trainers, helping them overcome barriers and challenges that students may encounter. This collaboration ensures that riders receive the support they need to navigate the system effectively, leading to increased mobility and independence. Through effective communication and coordination, dispatchers and Travel Trainers can work together to empower riders and create a more inclusive and accessible transportation environment.
This session explores this relationship and explores ideas to enhance teamwork.
Session: Weds, April 17 @ 4:00 PM]()
Sara Crook
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Travel Trainer/Mobility Manager
Mid Columbia Economic Development District
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