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"Our mission is to support providers
of travel instruction for the purpose of
teaching people with disabilities and seniors
to travel safely and independently."
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2009-2010 Association of Travel Instruction Officers: |
President
President-elect
Secretary
Treasurer
Past-president |
Mary
Riegelmayer
Peggy Schmidt
Susan Olsson
Steven W. Dickerson
Terry Moakley |
To contact any of
the above ATI Officers or the seven additional ATI Board of
Directors members, please CLICK HERE.
E-news Editor: Terry Moakley E-news Designer: Terry
Massie |
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IN THIS ISSUE: |
1.
It Is Membership Renewal Time
2. Building ATI Sponsorships
3.
Learn More About ATI or Recruit New Members
4. Attention ATI Members:
Please Review and Comment on ATI’s Revised By-Laws
5.
New Disability Agenda Developed for 20th Anniv of the ADA
6. Forward this Newsletter |
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IT IS MEMBERSHIP
RENEWAL TIME
Around this time
each year, the Association of Travel Instruction begins its
membership renewal campaign as well as its new member recruitment
efforts.
Please
CLICK HERE to either obtain a copy of our printed 2010-2011
Membership/Sponsorship form that can be filled out and returned to
ATI with your payment by mail, or take advantage of our online
membership form by using PayPal to renew your membership or to join
ATI. We ask all current ATI members to please renew your membership
for the 2010-2011 year prior to June 30, 2010. For those of you
reading this newsletter for the first time and thinking of joining
ATI now, both renewed and new memberships do not expire until June
30, 2011. |
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BUILDING ATI
SPONSORSHIPS
Do you know one or more persons who you have come in contact with
during your travel training career, and who genuinely appreciate the
empowerment that a successful travel training program gives to a
person with a disability or a senior?
Perhaps it is a family
member or a friend of a successful client who simply “gets it,”
understanding that travel trainers give the gift of freedom of
mobility to the people they train to use public transportation
safely and independently. ATI can use all the help it can generate
to grow as an organization, so why not consider
CLICKING HERE to print our Membership/Sponsorship form and ask
this person(s) to become an ATI Sponsor for as little as $250 per
year. |
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LEARN MORE ABOUT ATI
OR RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS
Association of Travel Instruction’s organizational brochure...
CLICK
HERE for PDF version.
Developed
by the ATI Board of Directors way back in 2004 – with the writing,
design and layout skills of our current Treasurer, Steven W.
Dickerson – this six-panel pamphlet contains many photos and a great
deal of useful information about the history and the particulars of
travel training. ATI still has printed copies of our organizational
brochure. To receive a small supply via snailmail, please send an
email to ATI past-president Terry Moakley at
tmoakley@unitedspinal.org. Or, feel free to print copies direct
from the PDF on the ATI website, but you will have to fold them
yourself |
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ATTENTION ATI MEMBERS:
PLEASE REVIEW AND COMMENT ON ATI'S REVISED BY-LAWS
To read a copy
of ATI’s Revised By-Laws, complete with a handy section-by-section
Table of Contents...
CLICK
HERE. The ATI By-Laws will be available for comments, from paid
members only, from now until July 31, 2010. Subsequent to this date,
if there are not significant changes suggested by paid members, the
membership will have the opportunity to vote for or against the
Revised By-Laws at ATI’s Annual Membership Meeting, to be held in
conjunction with ATI’s 10th Annual Conference on Friday,
August 13 at 4:00 PM at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel,
Baltimore, Maryland. ATI Members should email comments on the
Revised By-Laws to ATI President Mary Riegelmayer at
RIEGELMAYER.MARY@cuyahogabdd.org. |
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NEW DISABILITY AGENDA
DEVELOPED FOR 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADA
A cross-disability community is
working together to realize the promise of the Americans with
Disabilities Act by advancing a policy agenda that will safeguard
human rights and respect human dignity, enhance self-determination,
and make technology work for everyone.
This agenda was developed by the Justice For All
Action Network (JFAAN), a coalition led by 13 national organizations
run by people with disabilities with identifiable grassroots
constituencies around the country.
CLICK HERE to read this short yet powerful agenda. |
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FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER
Know other travel trainers,
travel instructors, mobility specialists, ADA coordinators, ADA
Paratransit eligibility certifiers, travel buddies, human service
agency transportation staff, school transition coordinators,
independent living center or other disability group transportation
advocates—basically anyone who assists persons with disabilities or
seniors to use public transportation, or who is thinking of starting
any type of travel training service, from short and simple group
familiarization programs to intensive, short-term one-on-one travel
training?
If so, please forward this issue to them. Help ATI
build its membership and attract new sponsors |
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