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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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2010-2011 Association of Travel Instruction Officers: |
President
President-elect
Secretary
Treasurer |
Mary
Riegelmayer
Peggy Schmidt
Susan Olsson
Rosanne Bopp |
To contact any of
the above ATI Officers or the eight 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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1.
Conference Co-chairs Invitation
2.
Conference Registration
Form and Information
3.
Become an ATI Member or Renew Your ATI Membership
4.
Conference Preliminary Agenda and Abstracts of Presentations
5.
The Jack Gorelick Award Criteria and Conference Scholarships &
Grants
6.
Need a Complete Conference Packet at Your Desktop?
7.
Forward this Newsletter |
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SPECIAL ATI CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION ISSUE |
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CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS INVITATION
The 2011 ATI Conference will be held from Thursday, August 11 to
Sunday, August 14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Our Conference Co-chairs this year are Ms. Cecile Charlton,
Executive Director of the Delaware County Transportation Management
Association, Media, PA, and Ms. Peggy Schmidt, ATI President-elect
and Executive Director of the Montgomery County Transportation
Management Association, North Wales, PA. These busy ladies have been
working hard to develop an outstanding Conference agenda as well as
planning some fun social activities for ATI members and other
attendees. And, our hotel is literally in the middle of
Philadelphia’s Historic District, just a brief walk to destinations
like the Liberty Bell and the Constitution Center.
CLICK HERE to read
the full Conference invitation. |
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CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION FORM AND INFORMATION
The ATI conferences keep getting better and better, and
Philadelphia Conference plans suggest that this trend will continue
this year.
You can
save money to attend our August event in two different ways, by
registering early and by becoming an ATI member. The Early Bird
Registration Fee for ATI members is $175 but to pay this amount, you
must register prior to July 29. Of equal importance is the closing
date to make your reservation to receive ATI’s special $119 per
night room rate at the Holiday Inn Historic District Hotel, and that
date is before or on July 11th. Further, you can either register by
mail by filling out the Conference Registration Form and returning
it to ATI with your check or money order, or register online at the
ATI website by using our secure PayPal system.
CLICK HERE for full ATI Conference registration information. |
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BECOME AN ATI MEMBER OR
RENEW YOUR ATI MEMBERSHIP
Traditionally, the ATI
membership year begins on July 1st of each year and ends on June
30th of the following year.
ATI
Individual Member’s dues are $40 per year, and this type of
membership is the organization’s biggest member group. The
Conference Registration discount discussed above applies to any and
all members who renew/join ATI and who register for our Philadelphia
gathering prior to July 29th. According to the ATI By-Laws,
“Membership in the Corporation is open to all persons, agencies and
organizations interested in the professional practice of Travel
Instruction…” Since its founding, ATI membership has been open to
any person interested in travel training, including disability
advocates, parents of children with disabilities, public
transportation professionals, etc. ATI has valued Organizational
members, too—19 of them for the year that ends June 30th of next
month—and dues for Organizational members are $100 per year.
Organizational members attending the Philadelphia conference pay the
$175 conference discount registration fee. We encourage
current/potential members employed by an agency to consider becoming
either Organizational members or an ATI Sponsor. Frankly,
Organizational memberships and Sponsorships help ATI to pay our
bills. ATI also has a small number of Auxiliary members who pay a
$20 fee per year. Auxiliary members have no voting rights but do
receive our print and this e-newsletter.
CLICK HERE to
either join or renew your ATI membership online using PayPal, or to
print out the 2011-2012 ATI Membership Form, fill it out and return
it to us by mail with your check or money order enclosed. |
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CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY
AGENDA AND ABSTRACTS OF PRESENTATIONS
A very important and useful change for this
year’s Philadelphia ATI Conference is that our draft Agenda and
brief presentation abstracts are combined into one document.
We believe you will agree that this year’s Conference Agenda is
decidedly eclectic: from several aspects of travel training from the
National Center on Senior Transportation, to “advanced” teaching
students to choose safe street crossings, to multiple success
stories of partnering with local and regional agencies to provide
travel training services, this Agenda, like the Philadelphia
Phillies, covers a lot of bases!
CLICK HERE to read or print your copy of the Preliminary
Agenda/Abstracts document. |
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THE JACK GORELICK AWARD
CRITERIA AND CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
The Jack Gorelick Award is ATI’s highest
honor, and it is presented to an outstanding supporter or
practitioner of travel instruction.
Nominations for this award must be made by letter, and must be
accompanied by two additional letters of support from persons in the
community familiar with the nominee’s achievements. Nominating and
supporting letters must be sent to ATI’s Post Office Box postmarked
no later than July 1, 2011. Also, ATI is fortunate to have three
different scholarships available: the primary purpose of the Jack
and Helen Gorelick Scholarship Award, in the amount of $750, is
toward tuition in the area of human services but this scholarship
may be used to attend the ATI Conference upon approval of the Board
of Directors; the primary purpose of the Elizabeth K. Maguire Grant
is ATI Conference attendance but its $750 total amount may be
distributed in amounts of $250 to three different attendees; and,
the Steven W. “Bear” Dickerson ATI Conference Attendance Grant is
available to a consumer who has either completed a travel training
program or is a current active participant in such a program, and it
is available only for reimbursement of travel expenses to and from
the conference of up to $600. The deadline for scholarship/grant
applications is also July 1, 2011.
CLICK HERE for full information. |
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NEED A COMPLETE
CONFERENCE PACKET AT YOUR DESKTOP?
Not a problem...
Simply send an e-mail to this newsletter’s editor at
tmoakley@unitedspinal.org, and include the words “Request
Conference Packet” in the Subject line. You will be e-mailed your
Conference Registration Packet within one business day. |
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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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