[tabi] Re: Fw: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro and Ability1st Partner for Sensitivity Training
- From: Jamie M smith <smithj7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:34:06 -0500 (EST)
Nice training.
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Subject: [tabi] Re: Fw: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro and
Ability1st Partner for Sensitivity Training
Excellent article. Thanks for sharing,
Lynn!
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From:
Lynn
Evans
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Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:23
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Subject: [tabi] Fw: City of Tallahassee
News Release - StarMetro and Ability1st Partner for Sensitivity Training
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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From: City of Tallahassee
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Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:30 AM
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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