1. California Department of Aging Mobility Management Workgroup Webinar
“Bringing Transportation Solutions to Life in Local Communities”

2. Presented by Chris Jensen, Advocate/Community Organizer for Resources for Independent Living
Resources for Independent Living promotes the socio-economic independence of persons with disabilities by providing peer supported, consumer directed independent living services and advocacy

3. RIL has been providing services and advocacy in Sacramento and Yolo counties since 1978.
Things I do:
facilitate a local consumer advocacy group called DOGFITE, which stands for Disability Organizing Group for Initiating Total Equality. We currently have about 30 members
member of the Sacramento County, Disability Advisory Commission, and Chair the Subcommittee on Housing
current Chair of Sacramento Regional Transit’s Mobility Advisory Council
member Transportation Equity Workgroup, for the Coalition on Regional Equity (a project of the Sacramento Housing Alliance)

4. Wheelchair lift
Wheelchair ramp

5. What is a BORPSAT?

6. Bunch of the Right People Sitting Around the Table
What is a BORPSAT?
Bunch of the Right People Sitting Around the Table

7. So, who should be at the table?

8. So who should be at the table?
It depends.

9. So who should be at the table? It depends.
People get together for different reasons. What is the issue?

10. What group gets overlooked the most?
Some potential partners:
Council of Governments
Transit Agencies
Unions
Neighborhood Communities
Transit Advocacy Groups
Lawyers
What group gets overlooked the most?
Riders!

11. What should those at the table, bring to the table?
Capacity
Skills
Information (White Paper Studies; Title VI)
Access to people (turn outs for events)

12. How should goals be formulated?
Talk with the community
Surveys
Slicing the issue
What is achievable?

13. What Outcomes Are Best?
Measurable
Have a relationship to the goal
Are defined ahead of time
How to make an apparent defeat into a victory

14. How can an organization effectively see transportation solutions through from beginning to end?

15. How can an organization effectively see transportation solutions through from beginning to end?
Timely Updates
Meetings with Decision Makers ?

16. Resources for Independent Living 420 I Street, Suite 3
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) (Voice & TTY)
(916) (fax)