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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
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IN THIS ISSUE: |
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August 13 to 15 ATI Baltimore Conference Registration
Begins
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Register for the ATI Baltimore Conference Online
3.
Project ACTION hosts free "Introduction to Travel
Training" course in Minneapolis
4.
ATI's Revised By-Laws
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St.
Cloud, MN Metro Bus Travel Training Program
Featured in Passenger Transport
6.
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AUGUST 13 to 15 ATI
BALTIMORE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION BEGINS
The 10th Annual
Association of Travel Instruction Continuing Education Conference
will be held from Friday, August 13, to Sunday, August 15, 2010, at
the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland,
just a few blocks away from the Inner Harbor area.
All 2009-2010 and
2010-2011 ATI members will receive a conference registration packet
in the mail, but to access this packet on the ATI website now,
please
CLICK HERE. Please note that a Preliminary Conference Agenda and
Abstracts of Presentations are included in the packet. Our 10th
Annual Conference has something for everyone: just beginning a
travel training program? Our conference features sessions on hiring
and training new travel trainers; documents needed to manage a
travel training program; the people/departments you need to work
with at a transit property to achieve travel training success; and,
a cost/benefit model and budget for a travel training program.
Working with students in transition? We’ve got two such
presentations: one is a “soup to nuts” look at how travel training
is working for students in transition in a large metropolitan area
school district, while a second panel looks at marketing and
locating funding to travel train students in transition. In many
communities, intersections look like they have been designed by
multiple engineers, so you won’t want to miss a detailed
presentation about the variables involved in teaching safe street
crossings. Travel training has changed in ATI’s decade, too, so we
offer another detailed panel presentation on how our profession
grows, with emphasis on the most critical competencies of route
training. Use of assistive technology in travel training? Knowledge
about side effects of common medications your travel training
students might be taking? Information about a new
wheelchair-accessible sedan vehicle that will soon roll off an
Indiana assembly line, with many transportation uses? The ATI
conference has it all! |
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REGISTER FOR THE ATI BALTIMORE CONFERENCE ONLINE
Once you have gone
through our Baltimore conference registration materials, save
yourself some time and energy.
CLICK
HERE to register for our conference directly on our website. It
is fast and it is secure, using our PayPal system. You can also join
ATI or renew your ATI membership online if you
CLICK HERE. |
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PROJECT ACTION HOSTS
FREE "INTRODUCTION TO TRAVEL TRAINING" COURSE IN MINNEAPOLIS
Easter Seals Project ACTION will present “Introduction to Travel
Training,” a free training initiative to increase the skills,
knowledge and abilities of travel training professionals, July 13 to
15 in Minneapolis, MN.
The application period will remain open until Friday, June 4, but
space is limited. “Introduction to Travel Training” offers travel
trainers basic information needed to expand their own skills and
enhance the services of their school or organization. There is no
fee, and lodging will be provided to those having a minimum
60-minute commute. For more information,
CLICK HERE. |
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ATI'S REVISED BY-LAWS
All members of
the Association of Travel Instruction who are in attendance at our
August 13 to 15 conference in Baltimore will have the opportunity to
attend our required Annual Membership Meeting on Friday, August
13th.
One of the
actions that will take place at this meeting will be a vote on our
new By-Laws. They are posted very conspicuously on our website Home
page. Any members who have questions or suggested changes to our
By-Laws are encouraged to
CLICK
HERE and send your ideas or comments to any ATI Officer or Board
of Directors member. It’s your organization, so let your voice be
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ST. CLOUD, MN METRO BUS
TRAVEL TRAINING PROGRAM FEATURED IN PASSENGER TRANSPORT
The April 26, 2010 “Bus and
Paratransit Conference” special issue of the American Public
Transportation Association’s Passenger Transport magazine included a
full page story about the expansion of the St. Cloud Metropolitan
Transit Commission’s services.
Featured within this article was information about
the growth of the agency’s travel training program, as well as a
photo of Metro Bus Travel Trainer (and ATI member) Debbie Anderson
with one of Debbie’s trainees. Congratulations on this story to our
friends in St. Cloud, and thank you for helping to spread the
message that travel training changes lives dramatically, one at a
time. |
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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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