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Transportation
A. Team Meeting 1/21/20
- Can provide rides to meeting from 8:00-10:00 am
- Local businesses/car dealer/donate a vehicle
- Help people learn how to use Medicaid rides
- List of 10 people available to give rides/ 7 on specific days
- Ask Churches to donate gas cards
- Work with schools so Drivers Ed students can give rides
- Advocate to legislature
- Get volunteers to mesh with Bus Schedule/fill gaps
- Family/friends to commit/ sign up to give rides
- Active life bike program to get bikes donated
- Skateboard/roller skates
- Can give rides on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 am-12:00noon
- Carpool to events with neighbors
- Go to Senior Citizen Groups to solicit drivers
- High schoolers drive to support parents
- “Adopt a Family” to help another family
- Find a team committed to replicating Cider
- Community vehicle donation and facilitate volunteer drivers
B. Workshop #2 (3/3/20)
- Offer a ride
- Create a group to join
- Coordinate meetings like AA with bus schedule
- Develop a Ride Share Board
- See local churches provide transportation
- Provide vehicle for someone to take driver’s test
- Donate bikes
- People meet up and go together
- Free tokens for transportation
- Start fund to pay for insurance
- Meetings more local
- Provide funds for vehicle repairs
- Start local charity jars/ money drops
- Put ad in paper for drivers
- Social media for advertising for drivers/ vehicles
- Find organizer in the community
- Ride/ share Facebook page
- Have publicly owned cars available to “check out” like a library
- Good News Garage to donate cars
- Work with Uber to offer free transportation
- Commitment to take one person to AA
- Community drive to purchase a bus to offer for free
- Volunteers to offer rides on days off
- Young drivers who need hours to give rides
- Veterans to give rides (VFW, Foreign Legion, etc)
- Donate funds/ passes for local bus system
- Reach out to other groups for rides
- Do someone’s grocery shopping for them
- “Clearing House” for available rides
- Develop/ maintain sidewalks and paths for bikes and low cost
- transportation eg mopeds, etc.
- Respite for caregivers/ family members
- Work with employers/ Ride share
- Employers allowing recovery meetings on site
- Set up a group of people willing to drive
- “Have truck/ will drive”
- Donate bus passes
- Mentoring to obtain license
- Be a transportation “Buddy”
- Learn and share bus schedules
- Start a new meeting
- Connect people in need
- Master list of resources (Community Resource Coordinator)
- Ride share
- See if local taxis would donate time/ rides
- Volunteer to drive
- Collect money for cab fare
- Contact senior citizens to look for volunteer drivers
- Getting connected to resources
- Fill a car
- Shopping trips/ Donations from Hannafords
- Educate providers to use Matrix
- Volunteer with car seats to transport children
- Childcare for individual so could attend appointments
- Educate drivers on history of individuals they are transporting
- Community van for parents
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