[tabi] Fw: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro and Ability1st Partner for Sensitivity Training
- From: "Lynn Evans" <evans-lynn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:23:42 -0500
FYI
The article below has one photograph of of two men. One man is assisting
another man who is in a wheelchair in front of a new dial a ride ban.
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Subject: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro and Ability1st Partner
for Sensitivity Training
StarMetro and Ability1st Partner for Sensitivity Training
Last week, StarMetro drivers participated in sensitivity training
presented by Ability1st, a local advocacy group for persons with disabilities.
Over 100 drivers participated in the sensitivity training sessions, which
spanned three days.
Curriculum for the training sessions included lectures, discussions and
interactive exercises. Through these interactive exercises, StarMetro drivers
experienced cognitive and physical disabilities while performing everyday
tasks. The big exercise of the sessions called for StarMetro drivers to cross
busy intersections around the city while being blindfolded and/or physically
handicapped in some way.
"Our goal was to provide additional insight into the challenges people
with visible and invisible disabilities face every day as they move about our
community," said Judith Barrett, executive director of Ability1st.
Each StarMetro driver must complete extensive classroom and bus simulator
training before taking to the streets. Typically, driver training can take up
to two months. In addition, each driver must complete refresher-training
courses at least once a year.
"Our Nova2010 Project calls for a more grid-like system with various
transfer points located across the city, most of which will be located at major
intersections," said Ron Garrison, executive director of StarMetro. "In order
to better understand how persons with varying disabilities will navigate this
proposed system, we are all taking additional sensitivity training sessions."
For more information, please contact StarMetro at 891-5200 or visit
Talgov.com/StarMetro.
Contact: Brian Waterman, StarMetro Planning Administrator, 891-5564; or
Heather Teter, StarMetro Marketing Specialist, 891-5206; or Judith Barrett,
Ability First Executive Director, 575-9621
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