Rural and Human Services Coordinated Transportation Workshop

Hosted By:  The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, Strategic Highway Safety Plan, Older Driver Task Force; and the Georgia Council on Aging, Georgia for a Lifetime Initiative

"Rural and Human Services Transportation Coordination" legislation in Georgia passed at the 2010 Session of the General Assembly. As in a number of states, it is now required that agencies work together to deliver transportation in a coordinated, efficient manner to all Georgians.

The Workshop
The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, Strategic Highway Safety Plan, Older Driver Task Force; and the Georgia Council on Aging, in partnership with the Department of Community Health; the Department of Human Services, Division of Aging Services are sponsoring a one-day workshop on the new law.  The workshop will bring together numerous experts on this topic.

 Workshop Agenda (link)

When
Monday, August 23, 2010

Where

The Methodist Home for Children and Youth

The Rumford Center

304 Pierce Avenue

Macon, GA 31204

Time

Registration begins at 8:00 a.m., and the workshop ends at 4:30 p.m.

Registration
$20 registration fee, which includes continental breakfast and lunch

Who is involved - Who needs to be there?
Interested stakeholders from the aging community and disability community; the business community; key members of the General Assembly who helped pass the new law; state agency heads and key staff of the agencies involved in coordination; counties and cities and staff; transit providers; regional commissions. The workshop will be of interest to policy staff and elected officials charged with helping their constituents meet their transportation needs, planners, regional commission staff and officials, livable community advocates and the general public.

Online Registration(link)